Global Investment Banking – Product Lead (Executive Director)

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm, and they are seeking a senior Product Lead to create, manage, and drive adoption of technology tools within the Investment Banking Division. The role focuses on overseeing the product life cycle, collaborating with IT, and ensuring effective product adoption to enhance client engagement and support senior bankers.

Responsibilities:

• Product management: Oversee the entire product life cycle including collection of requirements, feasibility studies, design, development, validation, pilot, and production. Ability to handle multiple project priorities simultaneously
• Product development: Gain a deep understanding of business stakeholder requirements and collaborate with IT to translate into best-in-class products. Be customer-obsessed with designing the most end-user friendly tools that enable bankers to be more effective and efficient in their work. Collaborate with IT teams to address roadblocks and manage projects to meet aggressive deliverable deadlines
• Adoption: Market products to bankers to maximize ROI of development efforts. Train bankers on how to extract the most value from these tools. Success is measured by tool adoption and the benefits they bring to the organization
• Collaboration: Work closely with IT, Strats, Bankers, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Senior Management. Be the center of gravity for products and closely communicate product objectives and status to partners within and outside of the Investment Banking/Global Capital Markets division. Build and maintain relationships with delivery partners across functions
• Vendor engagement: Look for opportunities to integrate external technology and data into products for faster time to market and enhanced capabilities
• Innovation: Stay up to date with latest technology advancements to continuously improve existing systems and incorporate new innovations such as AI
• Continuous improvement: Monitor quality and proactively request feedback to drive continuous improvement of products. Extract insights from bankers to deliver fine-tuned products