Key responsibilities:
Own the AI product vision for the Fund Ecosystem. Partner across Finance, business, and technology teams to define:
- What & why: Business problems, outcomes, and value hypotheses
- How: Solution approach and delivery model
- When: Sequenced roadmap aligned to capacity and risk profiles
Lead AI ideation and use‑case formulation by translating complex business problems into clearly defined, value‑driven AI capabilities with well‑scoped success measures. Orchestrate AI intake and prioritization processes across the Fund Ecosystem. Steward work through divisional and enterprise AI governance forums to ensure alignment with strategy, risk appetite, and model governance expectations. Proactively identify, assess, and manage risk across the AI lifecycle, including model risk, data risk, operational readiness, and change impacts. Work closely with risk and governance partners. Partner with federated delivery teams to define scope, prioritize backlogs, and drive execution. Ensure delivered AI capabilities are adopted, embedded in workflows, and producing sustained business value. Support business adoption through clear value articulation, change planning, and stakeholder engagement to ensure AI solutions are usable, trusted, and durable.
The ideal candidate brings experience:
- Defining and leading AI product strategies and multi‑quarter roadmaps
- Operating effectively across matrixed, cross‑functional organizations
- Driving initiatives from discovery through delivery within risk, model governance, and control frameworks
- Partnering with technical teams while representing business outcomes and user needs
- Navigating ambiguity and building structured operating models in emerging domains
In this role, you will:
- Lead technical product management activities for multiple technical products, or one strategic technical product, with cross-divisional impact. Drive the design and continuous improvement of the technical solution.
- Influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams to create standard processes that drive significant change to the client experience. Ensure business outcomes are linked to business case drivers.
- Coach technical product teams towards standard processes and learnings. Lead all aspects of product teams' support of the messaging, communication, and customer outreach as vital.
- Facilitate strong business support through working with team members to promote a consistent approach to decisions/impacts and client propositions. Drive connection across all appropriate internal and external partners.
- Lead the planning, development and implementation of new technical products with cross-divisional impact. Define and analyze technical markets, developing detailed product features and requirements, and developing implementation plans.
- Influence and employ a variety of qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques to continually improve the user experience.
- Participate in and influences ongoing business planning and departmental prioritization activities.
- Drive the team’s engineering practices in development, continuous integration, and automated deployment.
- Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.
What it takes:
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required. Graduate degree preferred.
- Minimum of eight years related business experience. Three years of leading large cross-functional teams on major organizational projects preferred.
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
Skills Required
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience
- Graduate degree
- Minimum of eight years related business experience
- Three years leading large cross-functional teams on major organizational projects
- Experience defining and leading AI product strategies and multi-quarter roadmaps
- Experience operating effectively across matrixed, cross-functional organizations
- Experience driving initiatives from discovery through delivery within risk, model governance, and control frameworks
- Experience partnering with technical teams while representing business outcomes and user needs
- Experience managing model risk, data risk, operational readiness, and change impacts across the AI lifecycle
- Familiarity with engineering practices including development, continuous integration, and automated deployment
Vanguard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement support appears unusually strong through a 401(k) design that includes a match plus an additional employer contribution, which can materially lift long-term total rewards. HSA seeding and an enhanced employer match further strengthen the savings-and-benefits value of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle support is reinforced by a sizable annual FlexFund stipend that can be applied across many day-to-day categories such as fitness, childcare, and other personal expenses. On-site or virtual clinics and fitness options add practical health and wellness convenience.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare and related benefits are positioned as comparatively affordable via heavily subsidized medical plans and broad coverage options. This affordability can offset moderate base pay for employees who place higher value on out-of-pocket cost reductions.
Vanguard Insights
What We Do
We are a community of 30 million who think – and feel – differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Since our founding in 1975, helping our investors achieve their goals is our sole reason for existence. With no other parties to answer to and therefore no conflicting loyalties, we make every decision—like keeping investing costs as low as possible—with only your needs in mind. Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment companies, offering a large selection of high-quality low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, advice, and related services. Individual and institutional investors, financial professionals, and plan sponsors can benefit from the size, stability, and experience Vanguard offers. As of April 30, 2019, we managed more than $5.6 trillion in global assets. In addition, we have 189 funds in the United States and 225 funds in global markets. For Commenting Guidelines & Important information, visit here: http://vanguard.com/linkedin Vanguard Marketing Corporation, Distributor.
