Leading our Financial Planning product line, which is made up of product owners and product managers, this role will help set the agenda and roadmap for future advice capabilities within the financial planning space. In addition to setting the strategic product direction, this leader will be responsible for the product vision, product innovation, product design, product development, and robust product practice management for the financial planning line. This is an opportunity to collaborate across our advice business offers, our methodology partners, and our technology partners along with client experience, driving the success of our advice offers across the globe.

Key Responsibilities

• Hires, evaluates, and supervises crew. Provides guidance and training as necessary to develop crew. Sets performance standards, reviews performance, and makes informed compensation decisions in accordance with all applicable Human Resources policies and procedures.
• Leads product management teams for a strategic product or product group. Sets new product strategy and adjusts strategies for program or product group.
• Leads, influences, or directly supervises cross-functional teams to create best practices that drive significant change to the client experience.
• Creates and maintains best practices and learnings, providing coaching to product teams on current strategy. Oversees product teams' support of the messaging, communication, and customer outreach as necessary.
• Builds and maintains strong business support from team members to promote a consistent approach to decisions/impacts and client propositions. Drives connection across all appropriate internal and external stakeholders.
• Leads the planning or is directly responsible for the development and implementation of new large, complex, multi-stakeholder products. Defines and analyzes markets, develops detailed product features and requirements, and develops implementation plans.
• Creates, maintains, and employs a variety of qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques to continually improve the user experience.
• Leads and influences ongoing business planning and departmental prioritization activities.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum of ten years related work experience, with at least five years innovation strategy and execution experience.
• Supervisory experience preferred.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.

Special Factor

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

We are Vanguard. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests.

For us, investing doesn’t just end in value. It starts with values. Because when you invest with courage, when you invest with clarity, and when you invest with care, you can get so much more in return. We invest with purpose – and that’s how we’ve become a global market leader. Here, we grow by doing the right thing for the people we serve. And so can you.

We want to make success accessible to everyone. This is our opportunity. Let’s make it count.

Inclusion Statement

Vanguard’s continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: “Do the right thing.”

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguard’s core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguard's core purpose.

Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

Future of Work

During the pandemic, we transitioned to a work from home model for the majority of our crew and we continue to interview, hire, and on-board future crew remotely.

As we have developed the path forward, we have taken a thoughtful approach that both maximizes the advantages of working remotely and the many benefits of coming together and collaborating in a shared workspace. We believe that in-person interactions among our crew are important for preserving our unique culture and advantageous for the personal development of our crew.

When our Crew return to the office, many will work in our hybrid model. A smaller proportion of our crew will operate in the Work from Home work model (for example, field sales crew); or in the Work from Office model (for example, portfolio managers).

The working model that your role falls into will be communicated to you in the interview process – please do ask if you are unsure. We encourage you to make the decision regarding your job interview and offer knowing which model your role will fall into. We will test and learn as our ways of working evolve and will continue to evaluate working models along the way.