Mobile Product Management – Executive Director

Morgan Stanley • New York, NY

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Morgan Stanley is seeking an Executive Director to lead a portfolio of feature squads within its mobile fleet, focusing on Wealth Management Platforms. This role is accountable for near- and mid-term strategy and end-to-end execution across a 6–12 month horizon. The position involves owning quarterly planning, roadmap governance, and intake/prioritization, translating fleet strategy into actionable plans and measurable outcomes. The Executive Director will champion mobile experiences that drive performance across the wealth funnel, from acquisition to 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 across Morgan Stanley’s Wealth Management client segments and delivering measurable client and business impact.
• Use client insights, analytics, experimentation, and value sizing to prioritize the roadmap, make trade-offs transparently, and ensure delivery is focused on the highest-impact client and business outcomes.
• Lead the unification of Morgan Stanley and ETRADE mobile experiences by driving consistent information architecture (IA), 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 across feature squads.
• Own portfolio-level intake and prioritization, ensuring requests are evaluated consistently, dependencies are surfaced early, and stakeholder expectations are managed transparently.
• Drive high-quality execution in partnership with Technology, UX, and QA, ensuring outcomes are delivered with strong product rigor.
• 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 throughout the product lifecycle.
• Directly manage, mentor, and develop a team of four Agile Product Owners, providing strategic guidance, coaching, and career growth opportunities.
• 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 (Trading, Banking, Authentication, Digital Client Services, etc.).
• Partner closely with platform squads (iOS, Android, API), Technology, UX, QA, and senior business stakeholders to align priorities, manage dependencies, and deliver high-quality outcomes at scale.
• Communicate roadmap, progress, risks, and decisions clearly to senior leadership, building alignment and momentum in a highly matrixed environment.
• Establish and maintain robust product management processes, Agile best practices, and operational frameworks to drive consistency, efficiency, and quality across all squads.
• Identify areas of operational inefficiency within the Agile framework and proactively implement scalable improvements.
• Support adoption of AI-assisted, spec-driven development (SDD) practices across the lifecycle, in partnership with Technology and delivery leaders.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered.
• Ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.
• Attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry.

What This Job Offers

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