Product Manager, Digital Lending Platforms – Vice President

Morgan Stanley • Town/Village of Harrison, NY

20h • Onsite

About The Position

Morgan Stanley is seeking a talented Product Manager to join their Wealth Management Platforms division in Purchase, NY. This role is crucial for building an industry-leading, highly automated lending platform that will directly impact Morgan Stanley U.S. Banks' growth strategy, with opportunities to apply emerging AI capabilities. It is a highly collaborative position, requiring close work with a team of digital product managers, engineers, designers, operations, credit, finance, and business stakeholders to transform the customer experience. Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm offering investment banking, securities, investment management, and wealth management services, serving clients worldwide from over 1,200 offices in 43 countries. The Wealth Management division helps individuals, businesses, and institutions manage wealth. Within Wealth Management Platforms, the Digital Lending Platform Team is specifically responsible for developing an industry-leading, automated lending platform to support the growth of Securities Based Lending, Tailored Lending, and Mortgage Businesses.

Requirements

• 10+ years of applicable experience across work and higher education
• 7+ years of professional experience in technology product management, or related roles
• 5+ years of experience of building and scaling complex data platforms
• Working knowledge of financial lending products
• Experience with software business analysis
• BA/BS required
• Excellent communicator with solid written and verbal presentation skills
• Professional experience in consumer technology, banking, wealth management and /or top tier consulting firm
• Strong attention to detail in both technical and non-technical capacity
• Focus on usability and eye for design
• Excellent relationship building capabilities with partners both internal and external to the organization
• Independent initiative and comfort working in a fast-paced environment
• Strategic thinker able to define and evaluate alternatives, and translate goals into specific project tasks
• Highly developed sense of ownership and accountability for work
• Ability to adapt to change and evolving business needs
• Ability to measure a given business problem to both quantify the issue and the benefits from the technology solution

Nice To Haves

• Experience in integrating Agentic AI solutions in lending workflows
• Leading Agile product management teams, collaborating with design, research, technology, legal and compliance team and driving decision making across cross-functional group

Responsibilities

• Work in a fun, fast paced environment designing new and improved technology for our clients and internal staff
• Design innovative new products with market leading competitive advantages that revolutionize the way people manage and spend their money
• Work with technology, business, and control partners to define and write requirements
• Engage in end user research, and use data analysis to inform requirements writing, and wireframe design of new products
• Present findings and project updates to executive leadership and key stakeholders
• Lead Agile product management teams, collaborating with design, research, technology, legal and compliance team and driving decision making across cross-functional group
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including legal, compliance, risk, technology and operations to enhance processes and streamline lending product related workflows
• Diagnose and resolve any technical issues or system errors that may arise within the lending platforms

Benefits

• Opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered
• Teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences
• Support for employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry
• Ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work
• Total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees