Principal Product Manager, AI Strategy and Product Development for Investment Research

Capital Group • Los Angeles, CA

5d • $208,245 - $390,361

About The Position

As a Principal Product Manager focused on AI strategy and product development for investment research, you will shape how Capital Group uses AI to create competitive advantage in its investment process. The role sets strategic direction and leads development of AI-enabled research capabilities that help investors generate unique insights, pursue differentiated approaches, and collaborate more effectively.

You will own work from strategy through execution, translating business outcomes into strategies, prioritized roadmaps, and viable software solutions, and guiding them through discovery, design, build, launch, and adoption. You will use fast, iterative experimentation, launching pilots, measuring results, learning, and scaling what delivers value.

You will partner with investment group leaders, investment professionals, researchers, and engineering, product, enterprise, and technology teams to build a differentiated data and technology foundation. This includes capturing and using unstructured investment knowledge such as meeting notes, expert conversations, and research summaries. You will represent investor and business needs, align priorities across dependent teams and applications, and measure product and business metrics to drive adoption and lasting value.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, business, finance, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of experience in product strategy and product development.
• Experience developing and launching software products from vision and roadmap through execution, with a track record of measurable business outcomes.
• Experience developing and leading AI strategy and data-driven transformation, including redesigning processes and workflows rather than simply automating existing ones.
• Deep understanding of investment research, including how analysts and portfolio managers form views, make decisions, and use data and judgment.
• Strong analytical skills and passion for product discovery.
• Experience leading lightweight, iterative experiments and pilots to validate, test, and learn; comfort with uneven results and rapid adaptation.
• Demonstrated executive influence, including building trusted relationships with senior business leaders and sophisticated investors and communicating complex ideas clearly to diverse audiences.
• Experience solving ambiguous, high-stakes strategic problems at the executive level, weighing trade-offs, and driving alignment.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver complex, multidisciplinary engagements.
• Ability to set up and lead high-performing teams and mentor and coach product managers.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree.
• Experience in asset management, an investment firm, or a research-driven financial services environment.

Responsibilities

• Set strategic direction and lead product development for AI-enabled investment research capabilities.
• Translate business outcomes into product strategies, prioritized roadmaps, and viable software solutions.
• Guide product work through discovery, design, build, launch, and adoption.
• Launch pilots and conduct rapid, iterative experiments; measure results, learn, and scale solutions that deliver value.
• Partner with investment group leaders, investment professionals, researchers, and engineering, product, enterprise, and technology teams.
• Help build a differentiated data and technology foundation, including capturing and using unstructured investment knowledge.
• Represent investor and business needs and align priorities across dependent teams and applications.
• Measure product and business metrics to drive adoption and lasting value.
• Influence strategic decisions on product direction, investment, and change through trusted relationships with senior business leaders and sophisticated investors.
• Frame ambiguous, high-stakes strategic problems, weigh trade-offs, and drive alignment on a path forward.
• Lead cross-functional teams and complex multidisciplinary engagements.
• Set up and lead high-performing teams, and mentor and coach product managers.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Individual annual performance bonus.
• Capital’s annual profitability bonus.
• Retirement plan with a company contribution of 15% of eligible earnings.
• Generous time away and health benefits from day one.
• Opportunity for flexible work options.
• 2-for-1 matching gifts for charitable contributions and opportunity to secure annual grants for organizations you support.
• On-demand professional development resources.

What This Job Offers

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