Director, Strategy & Execution - ETF & Index Investments

About Invesco

As one of the world's leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world. If you're looking for challenging work, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco.

What's in it for you?

Our people are at the very core of our success. Invesco employees get more out of life through our comprehensive compensation and benefit offerings including:

* Flexible paid time off

* Hybrid work schedule

* 401(K) matching of 100% up to the first 6% with a discretionary supplemental contribution

* Health & wellbeing benefits

* Parental Leave benefits

* Employee stock purchase plan

Job Description

The Role:

The Director, Strategy & Execution is the senior executive responsible for turning global ETF strategy into disciplined, scalable execution across regions, platforms, and functions. The role serves as the integrator and operator‑in‑chief for the ETF & Index business-aligning a long-term vision to commercial priorities, operating models, technology, governance, KPIs, benefits realization and continuous improvement with right talent to support growth, resilience, and long‑term competitiveness.

This leader operates at the intersection of strategy, investment capabilities, people, and platform acting as the connective tissue across Investments, Product, Distribution, Technology, Operations, Risk, and Enterprise Architecture globally. This role is central to ensuring that Invesco's ETF growth ambition is matched by execution capability-reducing friction, lowering operational risk, and enabling leadership teams to focus on value creation rather than complexity management.

Responsibilities of the Role:

* Translate global ETF strategy into executable operating plans across regions and functions.

* Connect and lead a high‑performing global ETF operating organization with clear role clarity, accountability, project and resource planning.

* Enable commercial execution by ensuring operational and primary market readiness for:

* Product launches, conversions, strategy and index transitions

* Market and regional expansion

* Internal and external partnership alignment to drive results.

* Drive operating and commercial rhythm for key external partnerships, including index providers, support vendors, exchanges, custodians, and service providers.

* Represent the ETF business in commercial and enterprise forums focused on strategy, risk, and scalability.

* Own and continuously evolve the global ETF operating model, including:

* Clear decision rights and accountability

* Scalable, standardized processes

* End‑to‑end ownership from ideation through lifecycle management

* Drive alignment between ETF business priorities and enterprise architecture to ensure platform support, growth, scale, and regulatory requirements.

* Lead delivery of critical ETF platform capabilities spanning trading, portfolio management, capital markets, data, onboarding, and launch readiness inclusive of performance and market quality monitoring of key teams and providers.

* Create governance framework and cadence to establish co-actioning on issues, decisions and project logs and translate constraints into actions across product and distribution partnerships.

* Own the ETF execution risk & control framework through engagement with investment support, risk, compliance, audit, ETF operations, and fund administration touchpoints.

* Lead incident response and playbooks for material operational events.

Requirements of the Role:

* College graduate in related field, or related work experience

* 10+ years relevant work experience in technical and leadership roles

* MBA and/or CFA/CIMA preferred

* Senior leadership experience in ETFs, asset management, or complex regulated financial services

* Track record of leading global strategy execution in both commercial and operational growth

* Experience partnering closely with Technology and Enterprise Architecture teams

* Strong understanding of…