Morgan Stanley Product Manager - Assistant Vice President
Morgan Stanley at Work Product Manager – Assistant Vice President
Wealth Management Platforms
Purchase, NY
As a Product Manager, you will work on exciting technology initiatives to build best‑in‑class digital platforms for our Home Office users and Financial Advisors to help them better service our clients. This is a highly collaborative role, where you will work closely with our team of digital product owners and collaborate across multiple functions such as designers, engineers, operations, legal, risk, compliance, and business partners.
You will help define and drive the digital product strategy and develop, launch, and enhance the platform to meet the unique needs of our users.
The ideal candidate should have experience creating product roadmaps, defining clear product requirements, and leading cross‑functional agile teams through the delivery process. Experience with financial services/wealth management, end‑user experiences, analytics, client‑centric design thinking, API architecture, and agile development methodology is strongly preferred.
What you’ll do in the role:- As an Assistant Vice President/Associate of the team, you will contribute to the strategic discussions with internal stakeholders, help drive alignment on key decisions with partners across the Firm, and assist in executing those decisions with efficiency and accuracy.
- Guide development process, working closely with engineering, UX and key stakeholders to build and enhance our managed platforms.
- Manage and improve efficiencies related to the lifecycle of equity trades. Identify risks and work with business and technology to alleviate potential risks.
- Gather, organize, and assimilate internal and external feedback to identify and prioritize product gaps, enhancements, and new features and develop a product roadmap aligned to key business deliverables.
- Participate in senior‑level discussions and contribute to the delivery of insights that inform both tactical and long‑term business decisions.
- Create project documentation (presentations, communication plans, requirements documents) to share formal updates with business and technology leaders.
- Lead requirement grooming/planning sessions to ensure that development schedules, design criteria, costs, and technical specifications meet the defined business need.
- Analyze product performance and end‑user feedback to make data‑driven decisions about product improvements and new features.
- 3-6 years related industry experience
- Self‑starter with strong and creative problem‑solving skills
- Superior analytical, interpersonal, communication (written, verbal, and technical), presentation, negotiation, and problem‑solving skills
- Flexible, team player with the ability to think creatively and strategically
- Interpersonal skills – Flexible in their work style with ability to influence stakeholders; experience working collaboratively across cross‑functional teams and with senior leadership a plus
- Deadline oriented and works well under pressure
- Experience with project execution (conceptualization, requirements, design, development, testing, and implementation)
- Experience with Agile development methodologies preferred
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams and stakeholders at all levels of the organization
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to use data to drive decision‑making
- Problem solving skills – Demonstrates the ability to identify key issues, gather data, investigate those issues, and develop actionable recommendations and options for discussion with Management.
- Project management skills – Ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously and adjust to changing priorities and deadlines
- Experience working with Data Analytics, Marketing & Technology teams is a plus
- Financial services experience and/or working with Financial Advisors
- Experience with LLM and generative AI to automate business processes for efficiency and scale
- Experience with Dataiku, Tableau, and/or other statistical software
- Proficient in with Microsoft Excel and Power…
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