Global Head of Data & AI Strategy and Product Management, SVP

State Street•Boston, MA

About The Position

Act as the enterprise product and portfolio leader for Data & AI, defining strategy, owning the roadmap, and ensuring disciplined execution and value realization—while delivering clear, compelling communication to internal and external stakeholders. The Head of Data & AI Strategy, Portfolio & Value serves as the central product and portfolio management authority for all Data & AI initiatives across State Street. This role operates at the intersection of strategy, product management, and executive communication, ensuring that Data & AI investments are strategically aligned to business priorities, structured as coherent, product-oriented roadmaps, transparently tracked and measured for value, and effectively communicated to employees, clients, and investors. The role requires a leader who combines deep understanding of data and AI platforms with modern product management discipline and the ability to deliver high-quality executive narratives and artifacts. This leader will run a small, high-impact team responsible for managing the end-to-end Data & AI portfolio, driving roadmap clarity, and producing high-quality materials for executive, board, client, and investor consumption. Success is measured by clarity of strategy, portfolio discipline, roadmap execution, and quality of internal and external communication.

Requirements

Senior leadership experience in product management, strategy, or portfolio leadership, preferably in leading technology firms or financial services or peer institutions.
Strong background in data platforms and data strategy.
Strong background in AI/ML, Generative AI, and emerging AI capabilities.
Proven track record as a product-oriented leader, not just a strategist.
Proven track record as a portfolio operator managing complex, cross-functional initiatives.
Exceptional ability to create executive-level and external-facing content.
Strong understanding of product roadmaps, user journeys, and platform adoption dynamics.
Product-first thinker with strong strategic orientation.
Highly structured, detail-oriented, and execution-focused.
Exceptional communicator with ability to influence at the executive level.
Comfortable operating across business, technology, and client contexts.
Brings a high bar for quality, clarity, and storytelling.

Responsibilities

Define and evolve the enterprise Data & AI strategy aligned to business priorities across State Street, platform-led transformation objectives, and emerging industry and technology trends.
Translate strategy into clear product-aligned roadmaps across Data platforms, AI platforms (ML, GenAI, Agentic AI), and Enterprise AI use cases.
Act as the enterprise product manager for the Data & AI portfolio, owning the end-to-end lifecycle of the portfolio, including intake and shaping of initiatives, prioritization and sequencing, and roadmap definition and maintenance.
Structure initiatives as products and capabilities, not one-off projects, ensuring alignment across Platform teams (Data & AI Platforms), Enablement teams, and Lines of Business.
Maintain a single, integrated enterprise roadmap for Data & AI and drive deep tracking of delivery against roadmap commitments, including milestones, dependencies, and outcomes.
Establish strong portfolio discipline through regular reviews, progress reporting, and issue escalation and resolution, ensuring transparency across senior stakeholders.
Define and implement clear value realization frameworks, including revenue growth, cost efficiency and productivity gains, and client impact and experience, tracking outcomes at both initiative and portfolio levels.
Establish fact-based reporting of realized vs. expected value.
Own creation of high-quality strategic and product narratives for executive leadership and Board, investor communications, and client engagement and differentiation, developing polished artifacts including strategy decks, roadmaps and capability models, and progress and value realization reports.
Translate complex Data & AI capabilities into clear, compelling business stories.
Partner with Lines of Business to identify high-value opportunities, shape them into well-defined product use cases, and ensure strong linkage between business outcomes, platform capabilities, and roadmap priorities.
Establish a lightweight but rigorous portfolio management operating model to drive consistency in initiative definition, prioritization criteria, tracking and reporting, and enable faster decision-making through structured portfolio insights.
Build and lead a small, high-performing team covering product and portfolio management, strategy and roadmap planning, and executive communication and content development.
Foster a culture of precision and clarity, strong execution discipline, and high-quality, polished output.

Benefits

retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
access to our Employee Assistance Program
incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards
eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
inclusive development opportunities
flexible work-life support
paid volunteer days
vibrant employee networks