• As a Vice President
• Product Lead within the Project Execution team, you will thrive at managing complex programs that have far-reaching implications for clients, employees, and stakeholders throughout the firm. You will be responsible for promoting end-to-end execution for the product’s vision and prioritized roadmap agenda, ensuring the health and wellness of the team remains on point with transparency and communication of work in flight to closure. You will partner with product and technology to overcome impediments preventing productivity and continuously promote a unified culture by encouraging team collaboration.

Job responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with Product and Technical partners, setting clear expectations and providing excellent written and verbal communication.
• Maintain a deep knowledge of area product vision, strategy, roadmap, technical and operational.
• Develop and maintain business architecture and capabilities models that reflect the product’s strategies and goals.
• Work closely with IT teams to ensure that technology solutions align with business needs and capabilities.
• Facilitate workshops and meetings to gather requirements and drive consensus.
• Monitor industry trends and best practices to ensure the organization remains competitive.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to business architecture and processes.
• Develop and maintain a strong focus on risk and controls.
• Partner with PO’s/APO’s/Agility Leads/Designers to confirm impacts and scope across teams.
• Responsible for managing product roadmap to align to the product budget and ensuring team availability.
• Support the Agility Lead in driving continuous improvement across the team in order to drive efficiencies and improve the overall effectiveness of agile.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proven experience as a Business Architect or in a similar role.
• Strong understanding of business processes, systems, and technology.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to create and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders throughout the firm.
• Experience with business modeling tools and methodologies.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• BS/BA degree or equivalent experience.
• Expert knowledge in all business processes across an entire line of business, as well expertise in other lines of business and technology disciplines.
• Understanding of global and line of business project and program management standards and methods.
• Strong understanding of Waterfall and Agile methods; stakeholder management; budget management, risk management and operations.