Director, Strategy & Execution - ETF & Index Investments

Invesco • Downers Grove, IL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Role: The Director, Strategy & Execution is the senior executive responsible for turning global ETF strategy into disciplined, scalable execution across regions, platforms, and functions. The role serves as the integrator and operator‑in‑chief for the ETF & Index business—aligning a long-term vision to commercial priorities, operating models, technology, governance, KPIs, benefits realization and continuous improvement with right talent to support growth, resilience, and long‑term competitiveness. This leader operates at the intersection of strategy, investment capabilities, people, and platform acting as the connective tissue across Investments, Product, Distribution, Technology, Operations, Risk, and Enterprise Architecture globally. This role is central to ensuring that Invesco’s ETF growth ambition is matched by execution capability—reducing friction, lowering operational risk, and enabling leadership teams to focus on value creation rather than complexity management.

Requirements

• College graduate in related field, or related work experience
• 10+ years relevant work experience in technical and leadership roles
• Senior leadership experience in ETFs, asset management, or complex regulated financial services
• Track record of leading global strategy execution in both commercial and operational growth
• Experience partnering closely with Technology and Enterprise Architecture teams
• Strong understanding of ETF operating lifecycles, from product development through ongoing management and end client.
• Experience operating in global, multi‑region environments
• Highly execution‑oriented leader with strong strategic judgment
• Proven change leader and communicator who aligns complex, matrixed organizations
• Commercially aware and operationally rigorous
• Strong influencer without reliance on direct authority
• Deep understanding of how technology, operating models, and people enable commercial outcomes
• Adept at incident triage, cross-functional coordination and risk management.
• Calm under complexity; decisive under pressure
• Trusted partner to senior leadership, Boards, and regulators
• Builder of clarity, accountability, and momentum

Nice To Haves

• MBA and/or CFA/CIMA preferred
• Direct experience with investment ETF platforms, capital markets, or quantitative/index‑based investing preferred
• Leadership of large‑scale technology, data, or infrastructure programs preferred
• Comfort working across Investments, Distribution, and Technology organizations preferred
• Familiarity with global ETF regulatory and market structures preferred

Responsibilities

• Translate global ETF strategy into executable operating plans across regions and functions.
• Connect and lead a high‑performing global ETF operating organization with clear role clarity, accountability, project and resource planning.
• Enable commercial execution by ensuring operational and primary market readiness for: Product launches, conversions, strategy and index transitions Market and regional expansion Internal and external partnership alignment to drive results.
• Drive operating and commercial rhythm for key external partnerships, including index providers, support vendors, exchanges, custodians, and service providers.
• Represent the ETF business in commercial and enterprise forums focused on strategy, risk, and scalability.
• Own and continuously evolve the global ETF operating model, including: Clear decision rights and accountability Scalable, standardized processes End‑to‑end ownership from ideation through lifecycle management
• Drive alignment between ETF business priorities and enterprise architecture to ensure platform support, growth, scale, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead delivery of critical ETF platform capabilities spanning trading, portfolio management, capital markets, data, onboarding, and launch readiness inclusive of performance and market quality monitoring of key teams and providers.
• Create governance framework and cadence to establish co-actioning on issues, decisions and project logs and translate constraints into actions across product and distribution partnerships.
• Own the ETF execution risk & control framework through engagement with investment support, risk, compliance, audit, ETF operations, and fund administration touchpoints.
• Lead incident response and playbooks for material operational events.

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• Hybrid work schedule
• 401(K) matching of 100% up to the first 6% with a discretionary supplemental contribution
• Health & wellbeing benefits
• Parental Leave benefits
• Employee stock purchase plan

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: Associate degree
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees