Executive Director, Global Technology Strategy
About The Position
The Executive Director will join JPMorganChase’s Global Technology Strategy team, partnering directly with senior technology leaders on consequential technology priorities. The role owns a focused portfolio of strategic initiatives and takes an active, hands-on part in shaping answers, aligning stakeholders, and mobilizing the organization to execute. Its subject areas include technology strategy, AI deployment and governance, operating models, and architecture, with particular attention to AI developments and adoption in financial institutions. The position combines significant technical depth with strategic judgment, leadership, and communication; it is not solely a people-management role. The Global Technology organization employs more than 65,000 technologists across 14 technology hubs and invests more than $20 billion annually in technology. The Global Technology Strategy team is a specialized group of executives working with senior technology leaders on pressing strategic questions. The successful candidate will scope and guide strategic problem-solving for a focused team and develop and mentor team members and junior managers.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of business and technology strategy experience, including hands-on delivery of complex solutions and ownership of global solution execution.
- Extensive experience as a technology-focused strategy practitioner advising senior clients within a broad, complex corporate setting and shaping and leading enterprise-level technology strategy.
- Meaningful exposure to the commercial or business side of an organization.
- Significant technical depth and understanding of technical concepts, architectures, and operating models sufficient to set technical strategy and engage credibly with senior technologists, architects, and engineers.
- Strong grasp of AI developments in the market and fluency in AI adoption and governance within financial institutions.
- Demonstrated ability to align a broad stakeholder group around a common, defensible answer and mobilize them toward execution.
- Strong relationship and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact with and influence senior business and technology executives.
- Excellent technical and business presentation, writing, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to deliver credible narratives connecting strategy, emerging technologies, and industry trends for technical and non-technical senior executives.
- System-level perspective on how architecture, governance, risk, and talent interact at firm scale.
- Proven success leading firmwide transformation initiatives in the technology domain.
- Strong facilitation, process, and influencing skills, with an entrepreneurial style.
Nice To Haves
- Undergraduate or graduate degree in business, technology, or a related field.
- Authoritative grasp of AI governance, model risk management, and the operating models needed to scale emerging technologies under regulatory scrutiny.
- Hands-on experience using agentic AI development tools to build assets that help answer strategic questions.
Responsibilities
- Partner with senior technology leaders as a trusted advisor and thought partner on consequential strategic questions.
- Own a focused portfolio of strategic initiatives and drive each from problem framing to a defensible, agreed answer.
- Bring diverse stakeholders together around a common answer and help mobilize the organization to execute.
- Frame complex, consequential, and politically charged problems and provide clarity and defensible direction.
- Monitor industry trends and developments in AI, especially their application to financial institutions, and use leading practices to inform and evaluate firmwide technology strategy.
- Scope and direct strategic thinking and problem-solving for a focused team.
- Develop and mentor team members and junior managers in professional development, technical and tools upskilling, career advice, and communications.
Benefits
- Competitive total rewards package, including a base salary determined by role, experience, skill set, and location.
- Eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation in cash and/or forfeitable equity.
- Comprehensive health care coverage.
- On-site health and wellness centers.
- Retirement savings plan.
- Backup childcare.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Mental health support.
- Financial coaching.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
