Director, Product Development

Company Profile:

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment, and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide, including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

In Operations, we partner with business units across the Firm to support financial transactions, devise and implement effective controls and develop client relationships, driving strategic automation solutions by embracing a transformation mindset and challenging the status quo.

What you’ll do in the role:

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC. is seeking a Director, Product Development in New York, New York to Coordinate with Institutional Securities business and IT development team to manage and implement technology solutions to address their detailed user requirements. Create product plans including high level business requirements, cost analysis, benefits definition and rollout plans for internal and external applications. Facilitate and gather detailed user requirements for the development teams, facilitating design reviews with the business and managing the overall rollout plans including QA, user testing, staff training and final delivery. Act as first line of user support for products, track client and investor issues and feedback, and work with business to prioritize post implementation issues and enhancements requests. Liaise between the business, developers, and other product development teams across global locations. Telecommuting permitted up to two days per week.

What you’ll bring to the role:

-Requires a Bachelor’s in Accounting, Management Information Systems, or a related field. Employer will accept any foreign 3- or 4-year Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Management Information

Systems.

-Requires five (5) years of experience in the position offered or five (5) years as a Development Project Manager, Business Analyst, or a related role.

-Requires Five (5) years of experience with:

• Portals/Online Applications and Digital experience;
• UX Design and wire frames;
• Business Process Modelling;
• Agile Methodology such as gathering business requirements;
• Customer support;
• MS Excel;
• Visio;
• Accounting;
• PowerPoint and Data Analysis.

-Requires Four (4) years of experience with:

• Investor services, transfer agency processes, hedge funds, and alternative investment structures;
• Camunda BPM; and
• JIRA.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years.  Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices​ into your browser.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $150,550 and $150,550  per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background.  Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.