Vice President, Alternatives Product Development

Role Overview

• Drive as product owner or assigned role for agile development programs including organizing program, requirement definition, epic & story creation, status tracking, execution status meetings, issue escalation/resolution, and communicating status to internal and external stakeholders
• Lead and/or perform the execution of specified Alternative development programs, including partnering with other members of the client facing, product, global delivery and technology teams.
• Manage development plans, development execution, coordinate requirements gathering, translating and participating in the agile development process, testing and roll-out of capabilities
• Facilitate program governance including compliance with policies, best practices, oversight of issues, risks, audit and compliance items in support of program reporting.
• Participate in development of transition plan to migrate new capabilities into our operating model; and addressing the administrative aspects of establishing the product or service offering
• Collaborate globally across business units to share approaches, develop best practices and improve the teams capabilities to successfully execute and deliver new capabilities or better serve clients.
• Manage project status meetings, ensuring ability to communicate status to internal, senior management and external stakeholders, Maintain & produce complete and accurate reporting and updates for senior management and key stakeholders around issues, risks, progress, and accomplishments.
• Effectively communicate, collaborate and develop relationships with diverse stakeholders with varied interests.
• Support annual planning, funding & resourcing prioritization activities where required.
• Understand the firm’s strategic plans, business, process and architecture and apply that knowledge in the solution design and development phases.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree on business, accounting or related field.
• Minimum of 7-10 years of alternatives industry experience, specifically private markets
• Working knowledge of SDLC, Jira, Clarity and other development related tools.
• Knowledge of or experience leading programs related to the financial services industry is an advantage.
• Experience interacting and presenting to senior management around status and strategy reporting.
• Demonstrated success working closely with leadership across a large organization to drive successful outcomes would be an advantage.

Tech Stack

• SDLC

Benefits

• inclusive development opportunities
• flexible work-life support
• paid volunteer days
• vibrant employee networks