Product Operation Manager, Charles River Development, Assistant Vice President

State Street•Burlington, MA

1d•$80,000 - $140,000

About The Position

Charles River for Private Markets is seeking a Product Manager, Private Markets to support the vision, strategy, creation, and advocacy of its core real assets offering. The role focuses on enhancing the infrastructure and real estate product offering and working with product, engineering, and delivery teams to provide effective customer experiences and value through the Charles River for Private Markets platform. The position reports directly to the VP of Product. The Product Manager analyzes, enhances, and delivers real assets product improvements across internal teams, customers, and stakeholders. The role represents the customer voice, aligns features with business objectives, gathers customer insights, prioritizes market opportunities, coordinates product execution across the organization, communicates the product roadmap, and supports requirements definition and design. The role may require travel for client engagements, including international travel, at approximately 20%.

Requirements

At least 5 years of real estate and/or infrastructure investment management background.
Strong understanding of private markets investing.
Knowledge of financial modeling, valuation, and private-markets key performance indicators.
Ability to deliver impactful product releases.
Ability to work as part of a global, distributed organization.
Experience using JIRA or other agile development tools.
Strong business orientation, communication, and executive presence.
Demonstrated commitment to quality and attention to detail.

Nice To Haves

Enterprise SaaS experience.
Understanding of the private markets or alternative investment lifecycle, from manager due diligence to investment monitoring, analytics, and reporting.
Background in data management, data science, and/or artificial intelligence initiatives.
Progress toward CFA or CAIA.
Familiarity with the investment process, including deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio management.

Responsibilities

Analyze, enhance, and deliver new real assets product improvements across internal teams, customers, and stakeholders.
Work with existing real asset clients and account managers to represent the voice of the customer.
Ensure features and products align with business objectives.
Lead client calls and workshops to gather customer insights and inform product decisions.
Prioritize, communicate, and support complex and conflicting opportunities and market needs.
Engage with cross-functional leaders to align the organization around product execution.
Own communication of the real assets product roadmap to internal and external stakeholders.
Work with product teams on timely and complete requirements gathering, definition, deconstruction, and design.
Travel as required for client engagements, including internationally (approximately 20%).

Benefits

401(k) retirement savings plan with company match.
Basic life, medical, dental, vision, and long-term disability insurance, with other optional coverage available.
Paid time off, including vacation and sick leave, and support for short-term disability and family care responsibilities.
Access to an Employee Assistance Program.
Eligibility for annual performance-based incentive awards, with exclusions for certain sales roles.
Eligibility for certain tax-advantaged savings plans.
Inclusive development opportunities.
Flexible work-life support.
Paid volunteer days.
Employee networks.