Cambridge Investment Research Inc. is looking to set and drive the long-term vision for their product organization, ensuring that every decision connects to business outcomes and client value. They need to align product strategy with enterprise goals, balancing innovation with compliance, operational realities, and business intelligence, and translate insights into product opportunities, ensuring AI-powered solutions are practical, compliant, and impactful.
Requirements
- Expertise in agile methodologies and modern product development practices.
- Strategic mindset with strong business acumen—able to connect client pain points to revenue-driving opportunities.
- You’ll have worked 7–10 years as a product leader in the financial solutions industry, maintaining a thorough understanding of financial products, regulatory environments, and customer needs.
Responsibilities
- Set the vision for the product organization, prioritizing initiatives that solve client problems and create measurable business value.
- Make trade-off decisions to balance short-term wins with long-term strategic goals.
- Oversee products through the full lifecycle
- Ensure AI features are effectively integrated and deliver tangible benefits to clients.
- Lead and develop product managers and product owners to operate as a cohesive, scalable function
- Foster a collaborative, client-focused, and data-driven culture within the team.
- Leverage client feedback, usage data, and market trends to inform product direction
Other
- Set and drive the long-term vision for the product organization, ensuring that every decision connects to business outcomes and client value.
- Align product strategy with enterprise goals, balancing innovation with compliance, operational realities, and business intelligence.
- By working closely with client experience, financial professionals and other internal stakeholders, you will translate insights into product opportunities and ensure AI-powered solutions are practical, compliant and impactful.
- This role requires both strategic foresight and hands-on leadership- shaping roadmaps, setting priorities, and guiding the team through trade-offs that advance the business.
- Partnering across engineering, design, operations and compliance, you’ll move products through the full life cycle while tracking outcomes and adapting based on performance.
- Along the way, you’ll mature the product team, manage relationships with technology partners, and keep executives informed through clear updates on progress, risks, and recommendations.
- Work closely with engineering, design, operations, compliance, and executives to ensure alignment and smooth execution.
- Provide clear, actionable updates to leadership on progress, risks, and recommendations.
- Proven track record of scaling product organizations and delivering market-leading solutions
- Ability to help teams to solve complex challenges with clarity, urgency, and creativity.
- Advanced communication skills that are well suited to communicating to a mix of both technical and non-technical audiences across product and engineering teams, business stakeholders, vendors, and executive sponsors.
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