Azure Cloud Product Manager, Vice President

State Street • Quincy, MA

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About The Position

We are seeking a senior product leader for Azure Cloud Platform Engineering within State Street’s broader Cloud Platforms organization. As a core component of our Technology Platform Engineering and Operations (TPEO) function, this role will report directly to the Head of Azure Cloud platform. Our cloud platforms serve as the backbone for business innovation, enabling secure, scalable, and resilient digital capabilities across the firm. The successful candidate will partner closely with senior leadership to shape strategic plans and product roadmap in support of our business strategy. The Azure Cloud Platform Product Manager leads the vision and strategy for State Street’s enterprise Azure cloud platform in alignment with the firm’s hybrid multi-cloud strategy, ensuring secure, compliant, and scalable delivery across the firm. This role leads the evolution toward a product-centric operating model in a thoughtful, patient, and collaborative manner—partnering closely with platform engineering team to embed product thinking, enhance developer and client experience, drive shared ownership without disrupting ongoing delivery commitments.

Requirements

• Strong Product management experience owning platform products
• Proven experience leading platform as a product transformation with preferred expertise in Cloud platforms
• Demonstrated ability to lead gradual, large-scale operating model transformations
• Pragmatic and patient approach to change management
• Strong influencing skills in complex, federated organizations
• Demonstrated ability to deliver in regulated financial environments and working with global regulatory bodies like FRB, FCA, PRA, MAS etc around cloud controls and compliance
• Proven ability to operate at executive level, influencing strategy across engineering, security, risk, and finance organizations
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent (CS, CE, CIS, IS, MIS, or engineering discipline) or equivalent work experience
• 15+ years overall IT industry experience with at least 5+ years in a product management role with an IT platform preferably Cloud in a highly regulated financial services institution with a minimum of 3 years in a leadership role
• Good working knowledge of any cloud – AWS, Azure, GCP etc. Well versed with foundational constructs around Compute, Networking, Security and Storage
• Good working knowledge of NIST 800-53, Cloud Security Alliance(CSA) Cloud control matrix (CCM 4.0), NIST CyberSecurity framework and knowledge of regulatory frameworks like GDPR, DORA etc
• Proven experience using Agile methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the long-term product vision and multi-year roadmap for the Azure cloud platform
• Lead the evolution toward a product-centric model through incremental, well-sequenced changes that maintain delivery stability
• Build strong, trust-based partnerships with platform engineering teams to co-create the product operating model
• Demonstrate patience and pragmatism in balancing transformation goals with current organizational maturity
• Enable teams to adopt product practices at a sustainable pace, including roadmaps, backlogs, and customer feedback loops
• Establish structured engagement mechanisms (e.g., developer forums, feedback loops, usage insights) to continuously refine platform priorities
• Act as executive-level voice of the customer for Azure platform consumers across Application, SRE, Infra, security and other cross functional teams
• Set platform product strategy for Azure platform capabilities, account vending, networking, IAM, security guardrails, observability, automation, and service enablement
• Drive prioritization decisions balancing enterprise risk, resilience, cost, and developer velocity
• Partner with senior engineering, architecture, security, risk, and finance leaders to align platform investments to business outcomes
• Establish platform success metrics and regularly report outcomes to executive technology leadership
• Ensure security, compliance, and operational resilience are embedded as default capabilities across the Azure platform
• Influence enterprise cloud standards, operating models, and governance forums as the Azure platform product leader

Benefits

• our 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 (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans)
• eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans

What This Job Offers

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