Mobile Product Management – Executive Director

Morgan Stanley•New York, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Morgan Stanley is seeking an Executive Director to lead a portfolio of feature squads within its mobile fleet, focusing on near- and mid-term strategy and end-to-end execution for Wealth Management Platforms. This role involves owning quarterly planning, roadmap governance, and intake/prioritization, translating broader fleet strategy into measurable outcomes. The Executive Director will champion differentiated mobile experiences to drive performance across the wealth funnel, including acquisition, activation, transaction flows, engagement, cross-sell/up-sell, retention, and client/advisor collaboration. Operating in a matrixed Agile environment, this high-visibility leadership role reports to the Head of Mobile Product Management and is crucial for modernizing the firm’s digital ecosystem. The ideal candidate is a seasoned mobile product leader with strong strategic judgment, rigorous execution skills, and the ability to align senior stakeholders in a complex fintech environment.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Finance, or a related field.
10–15+ years of experience in Product Management with significant leadership in mobile applications, preferably within fintech, brokerage, or wealth management.
Deep domain expertise across self-directed brokerage, advised, banking, and/or workplace client segments and their associated feature sets.
Proven track record leading and developing Product Owners in large-scale, matrixed Agile environments.
Strong experience with data-driven personalization, unification of complex digital experiences, and cross-functional stakeholder management.
Passion for building outstanding mobile user experiences and a client-obsessed mindset.
Demonstrated fluency in mobile platform product operations, including app store release governance, instrumentation/analytics, experimentation, and performance/reliability best practices.
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build consensus and influence stakeholders at all levels (including senior-level executives).

Responsibilities

Define and execute product vision, strategy, and roadmaps for key mobile capabilities, driving growth and delivering measurable client and business impact.
Use client insights, analytics, experimentation, and value sizing to prioritize the roadmap and ensure delivery focuses on high-impact outcomes.
Lead the unification of Morgan Stanley and ETRADE mobile experiences by driving consistent information architecture, navigation patterns, design standards, and shared components.
Define and measure a personalization strategy for the mobile experience, including audience segmentation, decisioning principles, and KPI/OKR ownership.
Lead quarterly planning for the portfolio, translating strategy into clear outcomes, prioritized backlogs, sequencing, and delivery plans.
Own portfolio-level intake and prioritization, ensuring consistent evaluation of requests, early surfacing of dependencies, and transparent stakeholder expectation management.
Drive high-quality execution in partnership with Technology, UX, and QA, ensuring strong product rigor throughout the lifecycle.
Partner with Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Information Security to ensure mobile capabilities meet regulatory obligations, privacy requirements, and security-by-design expectations.
Champion controls-by-design, high-quality operational readiness, and accessibility standards.
Directly manage, mentor, and develop a team of four Agile Product Owners.
Foster a culture of product excellence and ensure consistent ways of working across feature squads.
Serve as the primary bridge between mobile feature squads and broader enterprise fleets.
Partner closely with platform squads, Technology, UX, QA, and senior business stakeholders to align priorities, manage dependencies, and deliver high-quality outcomes.
Communicate roadmap, progress, risks, and decisions clearly to senior leadership.
Establish and maintain robust product management processes, Agile best practices, and operational frameworks.
Identify and implement scalable improvements for operational inefficiencies within the Agile framework.
Support adoption of AI-assisted, spec-driven development (SDD) practices.