Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position
Fidelity’s Emerging Business unit leverages Fidelity’s deep expertise in workplace benefits to design innovative solutions for some of America’s most pressing personal finance issues. Student debt is one of the most significant financial challenges facing millions of Americans today. Our Student Debt team has designed a suite of innovative benefits for employers that help their employees to better understand, avoid, and pay down student debt. Today, many of Fidelity’s workplace clients use student debt benefit to support employee retention and financial wellness.
We are looking for a dynamic, motivated Director, Growth Strategy to join the Student Debt Product Area. This role will work alongside product area leadership to define near and long term strategic objectives and roadmap aligned with market opportunity, impact potential and business objectives. You’ll take a leading role in understanding and mapping market dynamics, identifying and vetting growth opportunities, and driving implementation. You’ll define and lead targeted client engagement strategies to build satisfaction and support benefit expansion and retention. You’ll also develop clear and compelling narratives around Student Debt strategy, performance and impact, and align cross-functional stakeholders around a shared vision. If you thrive in a fast-paced, start-up environment, like to think broadly, yet still go deep and contribute to market leading innovations, then this opportunity is for you!
The Expertise You Have
- 10 years of experience in consulting, growth strategy, or product strategy
- Experience working in a matrixed, cross-enterprise / business unit environment
- Experience growing a new product, brand or business in B2B environments
- Financial services and/or management consulting experience preferred
- MBA or equivalent strategic training is a plus
The Skills You Bring
- Data-driven, analytically thoughtful, detail-oriented, research-focused, and intellectually curious
- Proven ability to frame opportunities and challenges to drive decisions and make business cases for change
- Excellent project leadership and organization skills; proven ability to drive projects forward and demonstrate results
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills; proven ability to distill complex topics into digestible, powerful narratives. Experience creating and delivering executive communications
- Deep experience navigating cross-functional teams and leaders, and aligning and influencing stakeholders around a common vision
- Comfort with ambiguity, complexity, innovation and change
- Desire to join an accountable, multifaceted, and collaborative team of growth strategists, marketers, salespeople, and product leaders. You’ll put your stamp on our business while also learning from your skilled teammates.
The Value You Deliver
- Support development of near and long term product area strategy, objectives and roadmap
- Conduct benchmarking and landscape analysis to inform strategic direction (competitive, regulatory, market)
- Identify and evaluate new growth opportunities for Student Debt aligned with long term vision
- Identify and assess strategic partnership opportunities
- Build business cases to support investment decisions
- Develop and execute targeted strategies that engage existing customers around benefit value
- Develop clear, compelling data driven narratives around product area priorities, progress and impact
- Lead key governance routines and executive communications; evangelize mission and work to promote awareness, buy in and collaboration.
Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote 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.
Skills Required
- 10 years of experience in consulting, growth strategy, or product strategy
- Experience working in a matrixed, cross-enterprise or business-unit environment
- Experience growing a new product, brand, or business in B2B environments
- Financial services experience
- Management consulting experience
- MBA or equivalent strategic training
- Data-driven analytical, research, and business-case development skills
- Project leadership and organizational skills with demonstrated results
- Excellent communication, storytelling, and executive communications skills
- Experience navigating cross-functional teams and influencing senior stakeholders
Fidelity Investments Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fidelity Investments and has not been reviewed or approved by Fidelity Investments.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Bonuses, commissions, and profit-sharing are presented as generous and meaningful components of total compensation, with certain roles achieving high total earnings through multiple pay streams. Variable pay is consistently framed as a positive contributor beyond base salary.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) match up to 7% alongside additional profit-sharing up to 10% materially enhances long-term compensation. These retirement features are highlighted as standout strengths of the overall package.
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Parental & Family Support — Generous paid parental leave (16 weeks maternity, 12 weeks parental), backup dependent care, and adoption assistance provide robust family support. Hybrid work and caregiving resources further ease family responsibilities.
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What We Do
At Fidelity, our goal is to make financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want. We do this by focusing on a diverse set of customers: - from 23 million people investing their life savings, to 20,000 businesses managing their employee benefits to 10,000 advisors needing innovative technology to invest their clients’ money. We offer investment management, retirement planning, portfolio guidance, brokerage, and many other financial products. Privately held for nearly 70 years, we’ve always believed by providing investors with access to the information and expertise, we can help them achieve better results. That’s been our approach- innovative yet personal, compassionate yet responsible, grounded by a tireless work ethic—it is the heart of the Fidelity way.
