VP/Alternatives Product Strategy & Development

Who You’ll Work With: 

We are looking for a tenured Vice President within our Alternatives Product Strategy & Development (PS&D) team. Our team manages the product development lifecycle and plays a critical role in creating, structuring, and delivering innovative alternative investment strategies (public and private) to global investors across all channels (including retail, institutional, insurance and Bernstein private wealth). This individual will be a key leader in driving the growth of this vital alternatives effort globally and across channel, by having a deep expertise on the current landscape and translating this knowledge to design and implement competitive, new alternatives products able to expand distribution capabilities on a global level. This person will partner cross functionally and worldwide within the client group, and with investment, distribution, marketing, legal, compliance, and business operations teams, including senior leadership and executive stakeholders.   

What You’ll Do: 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Lead cross-functional activities related to the design and launch of new alternative investment products, strategies and channels 

• Oversee and execute cross-functional activities spanning the product launch lifecycle including product design, development, pricing, approval, go-to-market preparedness, and post-launch operational readiness and related infrastructure build-out.  

• Partner with investment teams, Legal and tax counsel to define structuring for private and registered products (covering closed-end, open-end and evergreen structures) and act a subject matter expert within the firm on key structuring concepts 

• Lead efforts with business and investment team leaders to prepare the product development “new product assessment”, helping to negotiate and rationalize product objectives and terms across a diverse set of opinions via data-driven decisioning 

• Conduct new product financial analyses providing insight into revenue and expense projections and overall profitability  

• Collaborate with key stakeholders across distribution, product strategy and development, portfolio management, marketing, legal, technology, business operations and compliance to bring alternatives strategies to market that continuously meet evolving client needs 

• Manage alternative product pipeline content and meet with internal stakeholders to communicate new product pipeline activities. 

• Own the assessment of the competitive environment and market trends, staying abreast and relevant as it relates to competitive launches and evolving regulatory changes, analyzing weaknesses or gaps and new product opportunities to ensure AB’s product line-up is well positioned for future growth and continuously evaluating