Product Owner - AI Risk Transformation – Managing Director

As a Product Risk – AI Risk Transformation – Managing Director in the Asset and Wealth Management Risk Product Management team you will be part of a team at the frontier of risk management transformation. This is a unique opportunity to shape the strategy, operating model, and delivery of an AI-native, agentic platform that reimagines risk oversight — moving toward a continuously reasoning, intelligent capability. Our culture in Risk Management and Compliance is all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo, and striving to be best-in-class.

The position is a senior leadership role responsible for: 

• Setting the strategy direction and leading execution for a portfolio of risk products and platforms across Asset and Wealth Management Risk. 
• Defining the vision, integrated roadmap, product operating model, and success measures for AI-enabled risk transformation, ensuring product delivery is aligned to business priorities, risk management standards, regulatory expectations, and long-term enterprise objectives. 
• Leading cross-functional product teams, partnering closely with senior leaders across Risk, Technology, Quantitative Analytics & Data Management, Data & Analytics, Asset & Wealth Management and Wholesale Credit Risk, and business stakeholders
• Driving disciplined execution across modernization, simplification, governance and controls uplift, transparency, user experience, AI-enabled PDLC, and regulatory compliance.

Job Responsibilities

• Set the strategic vision, product direction, and multi-year roadmap for AI Risk Transformation across a portfolio of Asset & Wealth Management Risk products and platforms.
• Own and be accountable for the full product management lifecycle, including vision, roadmap, discovery, delivery, risk management, value realization, adoption, controls alignment, and measurable business outcomes.
• Lead portfolio prioritization across product/platform areas, ensuring investments are aligned to strategic themes such as modernization, simplification, governance and controls uplift, transparency, user experience, AI-enabled delivery, and regulatory compliance.
• Translate enterprise and senior stakeholder priorities into an integrated roadmap, clear product objectives, key results, success metrics, and disciplined execution plans.
• Lead, coach, mentor, and empower product owners and cross-functional delivery teams to execute consistently across the product lifecycle while embedding scalable product management best practices.
• Drive strategic alignment across Risk, Technology, Quantitative Analytics & Data Management, Data & Analytics, Asset & Wealth Management and Wholesale Credit Risk, and senior business stakeholders.
• Act as the senior escalation point for cross-team dependencies, delivery risks, scope trade-offs, resourcing constraints, governance commitments, and regulatory priorities.
• Sponsor release planning and execution across the portfolio, ensuring production readiness, communication, training, documentation, controls, and auditability are embedded into delivery.
• Define and oversee product performance metrics, delivery health indicators, adoption measures, user experience signals, and value realization reporting to improve transparency and decision-making.
• Champion the voice of the end user across the product portfolio by driving customer discovery, journey mapping, usability feedback loops, and continuous improvement.
• Embed AI-enabled delivery practices into the product development lifecycle where appropriate, ensuring responsible use of tools to improve requirements quality, testing efficiency, documentation, and product outcomes while adhering to firm policies and regulatory expectations.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• A minimum of 15 years of experience or equivalent expertise in product management, product strategy, business transformation, risk management, or technology delivery within financial services or another highly regulated environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading high-impact, large-scale products, platforms, or transformation programs across complex, cross-functional organizations.
• Strong expertise in product management disciplines, including vision setting, roadmap development, discovery, prioritization, value management, requirements definition, delivery execution, and performance measurement.
• Proven ability to set strategy, drive change, and influence senior stakeholders across business, risk, data, technology, controls, and governance functions.
• Deep understanding of risk management processes, operating models, controls, and regulatory expectations, with the ability to translate strategic risk priorities into scalable product capabilities.
• Strong leadership experience, including the ability to lead, coach, and develop product owners or cross-functional teams.
• Excellent executive communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts, frame decisions, and drive alignment across competing priorities.
• Strong delivery discipline, including experience overseeing Agile execution, release planning, dependency management, UAT, operational readiness, and controls documentation.
• Demonstrated ability to define product success measures, adoption metrics, and delivery health indicators and use data to inform prioritization and continuous improvement.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience supporting Asset & Wealth Management and/or risk stripes such as Credit Risk, Investment Risk, Market Risk, Counterparty Risk, Fiduciary Risk, or Reputation Risk.
• Experience leading product transformation, operating model implementation, or modernization efforts across large product/platform portfolios.
• Familiarity with data-intensive platforms, analytics workflows, AI/ML-enabled capabilities, and partnerships with Quantitative Analytics & Data Management and Data & Analytics teams.
• Experience using AI-enabled tools and practices to improve product delivery, requirements quality, testing, documentation, and PDLC effectiveness.
• Comfort operating in highly regulated environments with formal governance, auditability, controls, and regulatory commitments.
• Proficiency with JIRA or similar tooling, product documentation practices, roadmap management, and executive-level product reporting.
• Recognized product leader with a track record of driving innovation, transformation, and measurable outcomes across complex organizations.