Vice President, Product Management

Job Description:

The Vice President, Product Area Leader for Fidelity Institutional (FI) Common Platform Engineering is a senior leadership role responsible for defining and executing the strategic vision for FI Common Platforms. This product area delivers critical shared capabilities, including authorization, reference data, identity services, and cloud automation. The role ensures customer value by aligning technology capabilities with business priorities across multiple teams and initiatives. Success requires strong engagement with internal partners to understand business needs, timing, and dependencies, while championing innovative approaches to fraud detection and prevention and strengthening the security of client information.

This role defines and evolves the vision, strategy, and mission of FI Common Platform Engineering, ensuring integration with enterprise objectives and technology standards. Core responsibilities include negotiating prioritization of strategic initiatives, managing budget allocation, and overseeing the creation and evolution of strategic roadmaps that influence multi-year planning and align with technology strategies and Centers of Excellence requirements. This leader partners with other Fidelity executives to resolve product area-level priorities based on client needs and enable effective execution.

Success will be measured by your ability to align with business priorities, manage inter-program dependencies, create and maintain a multi-year roadmap, foster cross-functional alignment, and deliver practical, scalable solutions. This position demands strategic thinking, data-driven decision-making, and the ability to lead through influence in a complex, matrixed organization. Experience with security, fraud prevention, data platforms, authorization services, and cloud delivery is highly desirable. Familiarity with specialized financial domains can enhance impact, and backgrounds in CRM sales enablement, intermediary and international businesses, and securities trading provide valuable insights into the solutions this product area enables. A commitment to continuous learning and bringing the latest thinking to empower others is essential.

Fidelity Institutional delivers investment, trading, and technology solutions to institutional clients, including registered investment advisors, broker-dealers, and institutional investors. Our offerings include proprietary investment products—such as alternative investments and active ETFs—distributed through platforms like FundsNetwork and Wealth Advisor Solutions. We also provide institutional-grade equity and fixed income trading platforms, prime brokerage, and securities lending services, all supported by robust data and analytics.

The Expertise You Have

• Education – BS or MS required
• 10–15+ years of experience in technology development, solution delivery, and strategic leadership.
• Experience with security, fraud prevention, data platforms, authorization services, and cloud delivery technologies.
• Proven ability to define and evolve product vision, mission, and strategy, and lead development of solutions aligned with business objectives.
• Expertise in creating and maintaining multi-year technology and capability roadmaps, and prioritizing strategic initiatives while managing complex dependencies.
• Strong understanding of enterprise technology standards and ability to ensure alignment with organizational objectives.
• Demonstrated success in fostering cross-functional collaboration and driving alignment across business units.
• Familiarity with financial domains such as CRM sales enablement, intermediary and international businesses, and securities trading.
• Advanced analytical skills with a data-driven approach to decision-making and strategic trade-off analysis.
• Ability to lead through influence in a complex, matrixed environment and inspire teams to deliver impactful results.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and relationship-building skills to engage and influence at all organizational levels.
• Commitment to continuous learning, innovation, and applying the latest thinking to empower teams.

Balanced understanding of technology and business needs to deliver customer-centric solutions.

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Category:

Product Management

Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to Remote or fully Onsite roles.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.