Product Owner, Investment Risk

Wellington Management•Boston, MA

1d•$120,000 - $225,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Product Owner, Investment Risk, is accountable for the vision, roadmap, prioritization, and outcomes of capabilities that help investment teams understand, manage, and incorporate risk into portfolio decisions. The scope includes portfolio risk management, risk methodologies and engines, scenario analysis, stress testing, exposure monitoring, investment controls, regulatory adherence, and risk decision support across the investment lifecycle. Working at the intersection of Portfolio Management, Investment Risk, Compliance, Data, Analytics, and Technology, the Product Owner translates Investment Platform strategy and risk priorities into a roadmap and prioritized backlog. The role ensures investment professionals have trusted data, governed methodologies, transparent analytics, and actionable insights for risk-aware portfolio construction and monitoring. The Product Owner owns what is delivered, when it is delivered, and why it matters—including product vision, priorities, sequencing, capacity allocation, backlog management, and outcomes. Technology partners are accountable for how solutions are designed, built, supported, and sustained. The role also owns the enterprise investment risk analytics engine serving investor and risk oversight workflows, as well as management and client reporting on risk and positioning across asset classes and strategy types. It partners with stakeholders across risk, analytics research, compliance, data, technology, and other Investment Platform products to integrate scalable risk capabilities into investment workflows.

Requirements

10 or more years of experience in asset management or financial services, with meaningful exposure to portfolio risk management, risk methodologies, risk analytics, investment controls, investment data, and investment risk technology capabilities.
Experience working closely with investment, data, analytics, and technology teams.
Experience defining product strategy, roadmaps, backlogs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and delivery priorities.
Demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional initiatives in Agile environments and influencing stakeholders across business and technology teams.
Bachelor's degree required.
Knowledge of risk methodologies, models, and risk engines.
Knowledge of portfolio risk management and investment risk oversight.
Knowledge of investment controls and regulatory risk requirements.
Knowledge of trusted data usage, canonical data dependencies, and integration with shared data and analytics capabilities.
Strong product leadership and outcome orientation.
Ability to translate strategy into executable priorities and measurable outcomes.
Ability to manage competing stakeholder priorities and influence decision-making across senior stakeholders.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Strong analytical, decision-making, and prioritization capabilities.
Ability to balance strategic thinking with disciplined execution.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with risk analytics platforms, portfolio management platforms, investment data platforms, market/reference data, vendor tools, and modern software delivery practices.
Advanced degree and/or CFA, FRM, CAIA, or related professional qualification.

Responsibilities

Define and evolve the Investment Risk product vision and roadmap in alignment with Investment Platform strategy and the target operating model.
Translate business priorities and operating model objectives into a sequenced roadmap focused on measurable outcomes.
Own outcomes and value delivered through Investment Risk capabilities, including risk transparency, portfolio oversight, scenario and stress-testing workflows, investment controls, and risk-informed decision-making.
Establish product objectives, success measures, and adoption goals.
Own and prioritize the Investment Risk product backlog, roadmap commitments, sequencing decisions, and capacity allocation trade-offs.
Balance competing stakeholder demands and make transparent trade-offs based on business value, risk, dependencies, and delivery capacity.
Own the enterprise investment risk analytics engine supporting investor workflows, risk oversight, and management and client reporting.
Partner with risk and analytics research, risk strategy, compliance, data, and technology professionals to evolve scalable, well-governed risk workflows and decision-support capabilities.
Coordinate with Product Owners across Research, Investment Data, Portfolio Management, Order Management, and other Investment Platform products to integrate risk capabilities into investment workflows.
Establish and evolve access to consistent, trusted risk-analysis data aligned with canonical sources, data ownership principles, and enterprise architecture standards.
Integrate risk measures into portfolio construction, decision-support, monitoring, and control workflows.
Guide prioritization across internal capabilities, external or vendor tools, and tactical workflows to reduce friction, improve repeatability, and support resilient risk capabilities.
Represent the product to business stakeholders and technology delivery teams.
Coordinate with other Product Owners so the roadmap aligns with upstream capabilities and downstream product needs.
Lead backlog refinement, prioritization, release planning, and product acceptance activities.
Participate in Agile planning and review activities so teams understand priorities, outcomes, and success measures.
Identify and prioritize AI and advanced analytics opportunities that improve risk workflows, investment decision support, automation, and operational efficiency.

Benefits

Salary, variable compensation, and benefits; discretionary Corporate Bonus and/or incentives may also be available if eligible.
Retirement plan.
Health and wellbeing coverage.
Dental, vision, and pharmacy coverage.
Health savings account and flexible spending accounts.
Commuter program.
Employee assistance program.
Life and disability insurance.
Adoption assistance.
Back-up childcare.
Tuition/CFA reimbursement.
Paid time off, including leave of absence, paid holidays, volunteer, sick, and vacation time.
Flexible work environment, with employees working from the office four days a week and flexibility to work remotely one day a week.