Vice President Chief of Staff, Product Acceleration, Private Bank Digital

About J.P. Morgan: J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, committed to delivering exceptional solutions and advice to meet our clients' needs worldwide. Operating in 100 countries, we hold leadership positions across various lines of business. Our team of dedicated employees strives to do the right thing for our clients and the firm, making us the most respected financial institution globally and offering outstanding career opportunities.

About US Private Bank (USPB): With over 160 years of experience, J.P. Morgan Private Bank provides top-tier advice, service, capabilities, and products to affluent individuals and families globally. We offer highly customized and comprehensive solutions to address the complexities our clients face, leveraging our extensive product offerings. Our business model emphasizes deep client relationships through an integrated team structure with a platform of both depth and breadth.

Job Description: The organization seeks a strategic, execution-focused Chief of Staff to drive initiatives for the Product Acceleration team and partner with the broader product leadership team. The role is pivotal in operating the Product Operating Office by shaping operating rhythms, leading cross-functional initiatives, accelerating delivery quality, and scaling the product organization’s impact. This leader serves as a force multiplier—translating strategy into action, streamlining decision-making, and ensuring teams operate with clarity, speed, and measurable outcomes.

Core Responsibilities:

We’re seeking a strategic, execution-focused Chief of Staff to drive initiatives for the Product Acceleration team and partner with the broader product leadership team. This role is pivotal in running the Product Operating Office: shaping operating rhythms, driving cross-functional initiatives, accelerating delivery quality, and scaling the product organization’s impact. You will act as a force multiplier—turning strategy into action, streamlining decision-making, and ensuring our teams operate with clarity, speed, and measurable outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Operating Model and Governance
  • Design and evolve the product operating model, including portfolio planning, quarterly/PI cadences, OKRs, decision rights, and governance forums to increase delivery speed and quality.
  • Establish and run leadership routines (staff meetings, QBRs, monthly business reviews) with clear inputs/outputs, action tracking, and follow-through.
  • Drive continuous improvement across product practices (discovery, prioritization, hypothesis testing, measurement, and retrospectives).
• Strategy Execution and Prioritization
  • Translate strategy into actionable, sequenced portfolios, ensuring resource alignment, dependency management, and risk mitigation across product, design, engineering, data, risk, and operations.
  • Own the product acceleration roadmap and initiative backlog; drive alignment and trade-offs across teams to optimize impact and time-to-value.
  • Lead cross-cutting initiatives (e.g., platform migrations, standards adoption, tooling upgrades, product analytics enablement) from scoping to outcomes.
• Business and Portfolio Performance
  • Define and maintain a product performance framework: OKRs, KPIs, and value realization across customer, commercial, operational, and risk metrics.
  • Partner with Finance/Strategy on portfolio investments, budgeting cycles, and business cases; support scenario planning and benefits tracking.
  • Create executive-ready insights and materials (C-suite/board level), including portfolio health, delivery readiness, and outcome narratives.
• Leadership Enablement and Communications
  • Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner to the Head of Product Acceleration and product leadership team; prepare agendas, synthesize decisions, and ensure follow-through.
  • Drive internal communications for the product organization: priorities, wins, changes, and calls to action—tailored for execs and teams.
  • Coach leaders and PMs on product craft, operating mechanisms, and stakeholder management where helpful.
• Organizational Health and Ways of Working
  • Establish standards for product excellence (discovery methods, experimentation, research integration, backlog hygiene, roadmapping, product analytics).
  • Improve cross-functional collaboration and reduce friction between product, engineering, design, GTM, operations, and control partners.
  • Support talent planning, onboarding, and capability development for product managers and related roles.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product management, product operations, strategy, consulting, or program leadership in digital product organizations; 3–5 y