Senior Product Manager

Position Summary

The Vanguard Financial Advisor Services Portfolio & Product Insights product team is hiring an experienced, outcome‑driven, and client‑centric product managers to lead work at the core of our future vision:  deliver solutions and services that help our clients solve portfolio challenges.   

At Vanguard, we deliver a suite of portfolio analytics capabilities to advisors including web tools on the Vanguard advisor website and white-glove portfolio consolation reviews with deep experts.  Some of the items the team is currently working on include expanding the scope of products available for portfolio analysis, re-imagining the materials our portfolio analysts use to facilitate high-value portfolio conversations and automation of portfolio construction processes. 

In this role, you will lead both product discovery and delivery with a particularly strong emphasis on discovery. This means researching, testing, and experimenting to uncover opportunities that truly matter to advisors and move the business forward, and partnering with offer and agile team to bring new capabilities and features to life. 

You will step into this role at an exciting moment for Vanguard, as we rapidly strengthen our digital presence to become embedded in an advisor’s day-to-day workflow, while accelerating expansion into a broader range of financial products and advisor services.  

In this role, you will:  

• Use product management, agile, and design thinking practices to lead your cross-functional team through the end-to-end product development process: from identifying the right problem, to experimenting to validate potential solutions, to iteratively launching and evaluating new features.  

• Constantly look for unmet advisor needs and prioritize small and large enhancements to better address them.  

• Communicate findings and recommendations through compelling presentations and strategic roadmaps.  

• Leverage leadership skills to rally a team of cross-disciplinary experts  

• Develop and apply knowledge of the U.S. advisor industry, the Vanguard Financial Advisor Services offer, and the Vanguard Advisors’ website to make informed recommendations.  

What it takes:  

• Previous or current Product Manager experience is required with strong understanding of product life cycle and product discovery.  

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required. Graduate degree preferred.  

• Minimum of five years related work experience. Two years of leading large cross-functional teams on major organizational projects preferred.   

Core Responsibilities: