Alternatives Product Development Manager - AVP

State Street • Boston, MA

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About The Position

The Alternatives Product organization seeks a qualified leader with strong experience and interest in leading alternatives projects for our alternatives product organization. The individual must bring strong experience in Alternatives and program/project management to manage complex business transformation and technology development. This role will interact directly with key stakeholders across the business, technology and within the product organization, including senior management. The successful candidate must have excellent verbal, written and presentation skills, be highly organized, and have a good understanding of our Alternatives business.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree on business, accounting or related field.
• Minimum of 5-8 years of alternatives industry experience
• Working knowledge of SDLC, Jira, Clarity and other development related tools.
• Experience interacting and presenting to senior management around status and strategy reporting.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of or experience leading programs related to the financial services industry is an advantage.
• Demonstrated success working closely with leadership across a large organization to drive successful outcomes would be an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Lead and/or perform the execution of specified Alternative development programs, including partnering with other members of the client facing, product, global delivery and technology teams.
• Manage development plans, development execution, coordinate requirements gathering, translating and participating in the agile development process, testing and roll-out of capabilities
• Facilitate program governance including compliance with policies, best practices, oversight of issues, risks, audit and compliance items in support of program reporting.
• Participate as product owner or assigned role for agile development programs including organizing program, epic & story creation, status tracking, execution status meetings, issue escalation/resolution, and communicating status to internal and external stakeholders
• Participate in development of transition plan to migrate new capabilities into our operating model; and addressing the administrative aspects of establishing the product or service offering
• Collaborate globally across business units to share approaches, develop best practices and improve the teams capabilities to successfully execute and deliver new capabilities or better serve clients.
• Manage project status meetings, ensuring ability to communicate status to internal, senior management and external stakeholders,
• Maintain & produce complete and accurate reporting and updates for senior management and key stakeholders around issues, risks, progress, and accomplishments.
• Effectively communicate, collaborate and develop relationships with diverse stakeholders with varied interests.
• Support annual planning, funding & resourcing prioritization activities where required.
• Understand the firm’s strategic plans, business, process and architecture and apply that knowledge in the solution design and development phases.

Benefits

• competitive and comprehensive benefits packages
• generous medical care
• insurance
• savings plans
• flexible Work Programs
• development programs
• educational support
• paid volunteer days
• matching gift programs
• access to employee networks
• retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
• insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
• paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
• access to our Employee Assistance Program
• incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards
• eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level