Vice President, Head of Individual Retirement Product Development

Prudential Financial • Shelton, CT

46d

About The Position

The Vice President, Head of Individual Retirement Product Development sits at the center of that mission—leading the development of products that help customers build, protect, and convert their savings into dependable retirement income while driving profitable growth for the business. The successful candidate will shape Prudential's annuity product roadmap, influence strategic growth priorities, and lead a talented team responsible for bringing innovative solutions and enhancements to market. As a member of the Individual Retirement Product leadership team, reporting to the Head of Individual Retirement Product, this leader will oversee product development across Prudential's core annuity businesses as well as emerging growth opportunities that deliver retirement security in brand new ways. The ideal candidate is a strategic, commercially minded product leader who can balance innovation, profitability, regulatory requirements, customer experience, operational complexity, and risk. This individual will lead a team and partner closely across the business to bring high-impact solutions from concept through launch. This is a highly visible leadership role for someone who wants to shape the future of retirement solutions at scale—driving disciplined innovation, strengthening Prudential’s competitive position, and developing talent in a complex, fast-moving business.

Requirements

• Significant experience in annuity product development, product management, pricing, or strategy.
• Strong understanding of annuity products and the retirement marketplace.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex product initiatives from concept through launch in a highly regulated environment.
• Strong commercial judgment, financial acumen, and ability to evaluate tradeoffs across customer value, competitiveness, profitability, capital, operational complexity, and risk.
• Proven ability to lead teams, develop talent, and create clarity in a matrixed organization.
• Strong executive presence and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and align cross-functional partners around complex decisions.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, manage multiple priorities, and bring structure to complex business problems.
• Collaborative leadership style with a track record of building trusted relationships across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Lead the product development function for new annuity products and enhancements across Prudential’s Individual Retirement business.
• Leverage industry insights, market trends, customer needs, and distribution partner feedback to identify market opportunities, prioritize solutions, and advance viable annuity concepts to the product roadmap.
• Lead a team that translates prioritized opportunities into viable, marketable product designs, balancing client value, business economics, and risk.
• Drive speed to market while maintaining strong execution discipline, quality, and appropriate governance.
• Build, coach, and develop a high-performing product development team, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, intellectual curiosity, and accountability for business outcomes.

Benefits

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.
• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
• Company-funded pension plan.
• Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.
• Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period).
• Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed