Product Portfolio Operations Director

JPMorgan Chase & Co.•New York, NY

3d•$166,250 - $260,000

About The Position

As a Product Portfolio Operations Director in the Personalization & Customer Insights Team, you are an integral part of the team that innovates new product offerings and leads the end-to-end product life cycle. As a core leader, you are responsible for acting as the voice of the customer and developing profitable products that provide customer value. Utilizing your deep understanding of how to get a product off the ground, you guide the successful launch of products, gather crucial feedback, and ensure top-tier client experiences. With a strong commitment to scalability, resiliency, and stability, you collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products that exceed customer expectations. You will lead the data products and integrations that feed the operating memory for our agentic channel. Your team curates secure, consented customer context and personalized signals that help the assistant understand intent and maintain continuity—delivered to the Channel/Interface team and to domain agents that take action on customers’ behalf. Lead the data products that power the operating memory for our new Chase agentic channel—curating secure, consented customer context and personalized signals—while partnering with the Channel/Interface team and domain agents. Also drive ML‑powered personalization and next‑best‑action optimization across channels for marketing and servicing.

Requirements

8+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in program management or performance optimization
Proven ability to manage and implement operational effectiveness and portfolio management initiatives
Proven ability to operate within the product development life cycle and agile methodologies
Knowledge of product development life cycle, design, and data analytics
Knowledge of product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management
Proficient knowledge of the product development life cycle, including discovery, requirements definition, and backlog management (epics, user stories, refinement, PBR, JIRA).
Strong data literacy and the ability to turn user research, journey insights, and product metrics into decisions and roadmaps that deliver on time, cost, and quality.
Excellent people leadership and stakeholder management: mentoring product managers and influencing partners across Product, Design, Engineering, Marketing/Servicing, and business teams.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated prior experience working in a highly matrixed, complex organization
Knowledge of Personalization and Recommendation systems in production
Degree in Engineering, Data Science, Business, or a comparable field of study.
Knowledge of current digital banking trends and customer experience patterns, and familiarity with privacy, consent, and fairness considerations in AI.

Responsibilities

Works across products and product lines to help ensure delivery against business objectives
Executes the strategy for reporting and communications to support our portfolio management operations and change initiatives
Oversees and coaches a team to best implement the strategy for adapting and executing the full product-line framework and ensures our core cross-product priorities, sequencing, and trade-offs are realized
Implements portfolio-level tracking of controls, financials, resourcing needs, and key prioritization decisions
Drives product strategy and vision that deliver measurable customer value.
Leads Product Operations across direct and matrixed teams, ensuring consistent ways of working.
Owns product and management reporting, providing clear, actionable insights to leaders.
Defines, tracks, and improves KPIs and OKRs to measure outcomes and execution health.
Oversees risk, controls, and governance to ensure compliant, resilient delivery.
Manages work intake, prioritization, and tracking to maintain transparency and delivery predictability.
Runs product planning and execution cadence, aligning roadmaps, resourcing, and timelines.