What You'll Do
Full product lifecycle ownership: Own the product vision and strategy of Vanguard’s data platforms from incubation to sunset, in alignment with Vanguard’s enterprise data strategy and target state architecture.
Customer-centric product ideation:
Monitor market trends and conduct user research to identify opportunities that will define data platform products and product features
Collaborate across divisions with our users (e.g., data engineers, architects, analysts, data scientists) to define data products that meet their critical data and business needs
Foster a culture of experimentation through MVPs, rapid prototyping, and iterative development, encouraging bold thinking while maintaining a strong bias for execution and learning.
Translate insights into actionable and prioritized product features
Product delivery through innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement
Develop and maintain a transparent, outcomes-based roadmap and backlog, partnering and aligning with key stakeholders, including architecture and engineering functions under the CTO, to sequence capabilities based on business priorities and technical feasibility
Collaborate with data architecture and engineering teams to co-create the right features, often leading technical discussions with a deep understanding of data platforms and technologies (e.g., AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, integration patterns)
Conduct usability testing and experimentation to ensure platform features meet user needs
Manage product launches, coordinating with project managers for on-time and on-budget releases
Define and monitor key product metrics and analyze product performance to continually improve and drive value, inform roadmap and investment decisions, and measure success
Funding and P&L
Partner with finance and engineering leadership to allocate budgets across the product portfolio
Use data-driven frameworks to define and manage the OKRs, P&L, and value realization (ROI) of core platform capabilities and data services
Go-to-market and adoption:
Develop and execute go-to-market (GTM) strategies in partnership with enablement, communications, and other support teams
Create approach to socialize products and products features along with onboarding and training materials to ensure adoption
Building out the product function
Shape a high-performing product culture within the data platform organization, while fostering a culture of innovation and bold thinking
Mentor junior PMs and contribute to the growth of the product management capability within EDA&E
Qualifications
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.
Preferred Qualifications
Demonstrated end-to-end product ownership across product lifecycle, including product innovation and delivery through ideation and experimentation, GTM, and product evolution in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
Ability to lead strategic discussions on data architecture and engineering (e.g., data modeling, metadata management, data quality, data integration, storage, compute, security) and data platforms (e.g., AWS, Databricks, Confluent, Flink)
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
- Minimum of eight years related business experience
- Three years of leading large cross-functional teams on major organizational projects
- Graduate degree
- Demonstrated end-to-end product ownership across lifecycle including ideation, experimentation, GTM, and product evolution
- Ability to lead strategic discussions on data architecture and engineering and familiarity with data platforms (e.g., AWS, Databricks, Confluent, Flink, Snowflake)
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.
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What We Do
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