About the position
At Vanguard, we're different by design. Since our founding in 1975, we set out to take a stand for our investors. To create a company that puts them at the center of what we do and inspire our crew to work on their behalf. We're activating our shared NextGen vision, and a vital element is ensuring that platform development is strategically positioned to support our divisional priorities. Our newly created Investment Management Platform Group (IMPG) includes Platform Experience, which will create straightforward workflows, better application design, and actionable measuring for a world-class user experience. Together, the blend of technology and investment expertise will ensure that IMG continuously sharpens our edge to remain the industry leader in indexed, active, and quantitative strategies. As an Investment Management Product Manager, you will leverage your acumen in fixed income investments and product management to lead the strategic vision and roadmap for Vanguard’s future optimization capabilities for our Fixed Income Group.
Responsibilities
- Leads digital product management activities for multiple digital products, or one strategic product.
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams to create best practices that drive significant change to the client experience.
- Coaches digital product teams towards best practices and learnings.
- Ensures delivery of messaging, communication, and customer outreach as necessary.
- Partners with stakeholders to resolve production and implementation issues in a timely manner, and supports/drives escalations where required to enable rapid delivery.
- Leads the planning, development and implementation of new digital products.
- Defines and analyzes markets, developing detailed product features and requirements, and developing implementation plans.
- Employs a variety of qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques to continually improve the user experience.
- Participates in and provides recommendations for ongoing business planning and departmental prioritization activities.
- Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Minimum of five years of relevant product management experience.
- Three years of experience in leading product delivery initiatives.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required.
- Graduate degree preferred.
- Experience in portfolio management and trading lifecycle required.
- Foundational understanding of fixed income products required.
- Hybrid skillset (coding in python) preferred.
