Director, Product Management - Transformation

Gen II Careers•Boca Raton, FL

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Gen II is hiring a founding Director of Product Management to establish and lead its Data, Integration and AI Platform as a Product. The role will create and operate the product model for a platform that connects more than 40 systems across Gen II’s fund administration technology estate and supports data flows, integrations, analytics products and data applications. The position will also develop the strategy for evolving early-stage AI capabilities into a platform that can deliver business solutions with greater speed and predictability. Initially, this is a hands-on role spanning data and integration teams. The Director will establish how demand is received, priorities are set, roadmaps are agreed, delivery is coordinated and platform value is demonstrated. They will set platform direction and priorities in partnership with engineering, while engineering directors determine technical implementation and own delivery. The Director will hire and develop Product Managers and other team members, and will provide hands-on support as the function grows. The role partners with Platform Steering Committees, engineering leaders, other Product leaders and business stakeholders to align strategy and roadmaps with business needs. It is the senior product representative across operations, application owners, technology, Risk, Compliance, Cyber and Privacy. The position owns demand-side relationships; engineering directors retain responsibility for service performance and incident management. This position follows a flexible hybrid schedule, with the employee expected to work in the office one to four days per week as needed. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The stated salary range is $180,000–$220,000, plus a discretionary bonus and comprehensive benefits; the actual offer depends on experience.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related field.
10 or more years of product management or equivalent experience, including at least 3 years leading Product Managers or Business Analysts.
Substantial financial services experience; fund administration or private capital experience is ideal. Familiarity with fund structures, entity hierarchies, investor lifecycle, general ledger (GL) and net asset value (NAV) is expected.
Product ownership experience for a data platform, integration platform or similar internal platform with business consumers.
Track record of establishing a product function, including intake, prioritization and roadmap mechanisms that the candidate designed and saw adopted.
Demonstrated ability to maintain a prioritization position with senior engineering and business stakeholders while preserving working relationships.
Technical fluency sufficient to work credibly with engineering, including familiarity with data models, integration patterns and platform architecture, and the ability to challenge estimates without owning technical details.
Willingness to personally produce roadmaps, requirements and business cases while the team is small.
Strong communication skills, including the ability to move between executive discussions and working sessions with engineers.
Legally authorized to work in the United States.

Nice To Haves

Experience in fund administration or private capital.
Experience with client-facing or commercialized data and analytics products.
Experience working across US and UK/EU teams and time zones.

Responsibilities

Establish and operate the product operating model for data and integration, including intake, prioritization, roadmaps, integrated delivery visibility, release communication and value measures.
Create product strategy that balances business and product needs with foundational reliability, reusability and delivery velocity.
Set the direction and priorities for the platform in partnership with engineering, deciding what is built and in what order while engineering directors determine how it is built and own delivery.
Build a high-performing team of Product Managers, Business Analysts and other product professionals, while providing hands-on support as the function develops.
Own a single Data, Integration and Platform (DIP) roadmap spanning data and integration, with final prioritization authority.
Own the demand intake process and establish Product as the route for new platform work, replacing informal channels that bypass it.
Work with engineering leadership on prioritization, including declining requests that lack a sound case, while respecting engineering ownership of effort, feasibility and technical sequencing.
Support Product Managers accountable for cross-team delivery dates that are not owned by a single engineering director.
Define measures of platform investment value and adoption that are distinct from engineering delivery and service measures.
Develop the AI platform strategy based on current capabilities, desired direction, use cases, sequencing and value; hand it off to a Product Manager once hired.
Work with engineering and architecture to assess achievable AI capabilities, distinguish them from vendor positioning and set appropriate business expectations.
Apply AI tools to product work, including research synthesis, requirements drafting, options analysis and documentation.
Represent Product across the business, including operations leadership, application owners, the technology estate, Risk, Compliance, Cyber and Privacy.
Translate fund administration needs into platform capabilities and explain platform capabilities in terms understood by the business.
Establish the credibility of the Product function with stakeholders accustomed to approaching engineering directly.