Product Manager, FAS Digital & Analytics
FAS Digital & Analytics is seeking a Product Manager to help shape the future of Vanguard's advisor experience. Our team builds and evolves a suite of advisor-facing digital products used by financial professionals to analyze portfolios, evaluate investment strategies, manage risk, and make better client decisions.
As a Product Manager, you will lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of products including Portfolio Analytics, Risk Analytics, Bond Ladder, Fund Comparison, Expert Insights, and other emerging advisor capabilities. You'll work at the intersection of financial technology, analytics, user experience, and business strategy, partnering with advisors, researchers, engineers, designers, analysts, and business leaders to deliver solutions that create measurable value for both our clients and Vanguard.
This role offers the opportunity to influence how advisors interact with data, insights, and analytics across Vanguard's digital ecosystem while helping define the next generation of portfolio construction and decision-support tools.
Ideal Candidate
A strategic, customer-obsessed product leader who thrives in complex problem spaces and enjoys turning advisor needs, business opportunities, and analytical insights into impactful digital experiences. The ideal candidate combines strong product management fundamentals with a passion for data, collaboration, and continuous innovation.
You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, aligning stakeholders around a vision, and leading cross-functional teams from discovery through execution. Experience with analytics products, financial services, wealth management, advisor technology, or decision-support tools is highly valued.
Key Responsibilities
Define and execute product strategy, vision, and roadmaps for advisor-facing digital and analytics products.
Partner with financial advisors, client-facing teams, researchers, and business stakeholders to deeply understand customer needs and uncover opportunities for innovation.
Lead product discovery efforts, translating customer problems and market opportunities into actionable product strategies.
Collaborate closely with engineering, UX, analytics, and data teams to deliver high-quality experiences that drive adoption and business outcomes.
Prioritize features, enhancements, and investments based on customer value, strategic alignment, and measurable impact.
Leverage quantitative and qualitative insights to evaluate product performance and guide decision-making.
Drive the evolution of portfolio analytics, risk analytics, investment research, and advisor workflow experiences.
Build alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders, balancing competing priorities while maintaining a clear product vision.
Communicate product strategy, progress, risks, and outcomes to partners and leadership.
Champion a culture of experimentation, continuous learning, and customer-centered product development.
Why Join Our Team?
Help shape products used by thousands of financial professionals.
Work on highly visible initiatives at the intersection of investing, analytics, AI, and digital experiences.
Influence the future of how advisors analyze portfolios, assess risk, and serve their clients.
Collaborate with a talented team of product managers, engineers, designers, researchers, and analytics experts.
Play a key role in Vanguard's mission to give advisors and clients the best chance for investment success.
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
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related discipline (or equivalent experience)
- 8+ years experience in Product Management, Digital Product Development, or related area
- 2+ years leading large cross-functional projects or teams
- Experience managing products through full lifecycle from strategy to launch and optimization
- Experience partnering with engineering teams to deliver digital solutions
- Expertise in digital product management and customer experience optimization
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mindset
- Experience using customer insights and market analysis to influence product strategy
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills
- Familiarity with Agile product development methodologies
Vanguard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Vanguard and has not been reviewed or approved by Vanguard.
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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.
