Director, IT Product Management, ESG for Public Markets and Private Markets

This is an opportunity to lead delivery for ESG for Public Markets and Private Markets product at a leading asset manager. As Product Delivery Director, you’ll manage a cross-functional team to drive strategic initiatives, platform enhancements, and operational excellence across ESG data sourcing, calculation engine/scoring and reporting. You’ll partner with stakeholders to deliver measurable business outcomes, advance modernization, and champion responsible AI solutions. This role is pivotal in shaping ESG roadmap, client experience and sales effectiveness, contributing directly to our mission of empowering clients and teams.

Position Responsibilities:

• Own product delivery across ESG applications (ESG data sourcing, calculation engine/scoring and reporting) across Public Markets and Private Markets.

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of engineers, analysts, and QA across agile squads; set goals, coach, and drive accountability.

• Partner with ESG, Product, Client Service, Operations, and Compliance to shape roadmaps, prioritize backlogs, and translate business needs into actionable epics and user stories.

• Deliver strategic initiatives and platform modernization: scalability, performance, security, and data quality improvements.

• Oversee KLO, incident management, and SRE practices (SLAs/SLOs, reliability, change management) to ensure production stability.

• Establish delivery rigor: OKRs, KPIs, release cadences, dependency management, and cross-team governance.

• Drive the book of work for ESG capabilities, data integration, and workflow automation.

• Advance AI-enabled solutions (intelligent ESG reporting, insights/recommendations) with responsible AI governance.

• Manage vendor/partner relationships and contracts (ESG tools and market data), ensuring value realization and roadmap alignment.

• Align data strategy with enterprise architecture: master data, metadata, lineage, and quality controls across ESG data.

• Champion security, privacy, and regulatory compliance (data protection, client communications standards) in design and delivery.

• Own budgets, forecasts, and resource planning; optimize capacity across strategic work, enhancements, and KLO.

• Communicate status and risk transparently to senior leadership; drive mitigation plans and decision escalations.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years in product delivery/program management or technology leadership in financial services; investment management experience strongly preferred.

• Proven leadership managing cross-functional engineering/analysis teams delivering complex, data-rich products at scale.

• Demonstrated success with agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban), DevOps/SRE practices, and CI/CD.

• Experience delivering ESG and Investment Management platforms and solutions.

• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication; ability to align priorities and drive outcomes.

• Solid understanding of data integration, APIs, and event-driven architectures; familiarity with data governance and controls.

• Track record of operational excellence: SLAs, incident/problem management, change/release management.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with ESG or Investment Management ecosystems.

• Knowledge of ESG data platforms.

• Background in AI/ML product delivery: NLP for content/search, personalization, predictive analytics.

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), containerization, and modern data stacks

When you join our team:

• We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

• We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

• As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.

If you are applying to this role in Massachusetts, please note the salary range is $127,330.00 - $236,470.00 USD. Additionally, employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.

The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.

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