Product Director - Modelling Portfolio

Wood Mackenzie • Boston, MA

5d • $160,000 - $190,000

About The Position

The Director of Modelling Products owns Wood Mackenzie’s portfolio of modelling products across power, gas and oil markets. The role sets portfolio strategy, determines which models to build, rebuild, retire or acquire, owns investment cases and sequencing, and leads the product leads responsible for individual markets. A central focus is productizing analytical assets by making models and their features versioned, documented, reproducible, commercially packaged and available to customers and internal analysts.

The position establishes consistent governance for validation, change control, backtesting and documentation, and works with commercial teams on pricing and packaging. It also partners with central engineering and modelling functions: development capacity is provided centrally, while this role specifies requirements, reviews implementations and maintains quality standards without directly managing developers. The role does not build models or manage engineering or data science teams.

Requirements

• A degree in a mathematical, engineering or scientific discipline.
• Real experience with linear programming, econometric or machine learning modelling, with the ability to discuss, validate and challenge methodologies.
• Ten or more years of product experience, including ownership of a multi-product portfolio and investment tradeoffs.
• Experience leading product managers, including senior product managers.
• A track record of turning analytical or research assets built for internal or bespoke use into repeatable, documented and commercially viable products.
• Experience with machine-consumable delivery such as APIs, streaming, data platforms and workflow integration.
• Ability to operate effectively without direct control of development, data engineering and market expertise teams, using clear specifications, credibility and influence.

Nice To Haves

• Commodity or energy market context; deep subject matter expertise is not required.

Responsibilities

• Set portfolio strategy across power, gas and oil models, including decisions to build, rebuild, retire or acquire models.
• Own investment cases and sequencing for the modelling portfolio and defend those decisions.
• Lead the productization of models and underlying analytical features, including versioning, documented methodology, reproducible outputs and defined release cycles.
• Hire, develop and set objectives for modelling product leads, and maintain a consistent methodological standard across them.
• Establish standards for model validation, change control, backtesting and documentation.
• Determine how modelling assets are distributed to customers through applications, APIs and data platforms, and supplied to internal analysts.
• Work with commercial teams on pricing and packaging.
• Partner with central engineering and modelling functions by specifying requirements, reviewing implementations and maintaining quality standards.

What This Job Offers

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