Product Manager –Workplace Platforms, Vice President

Wealth Management Platforms
Purchase, NY

About Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm’s employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

Morgan Stanley is committed to helping its employees build meaningful careers and we strive to be a place for people to learn, achieve and grow.

Department Overview

In the Wealth Management division, we help people, businesses and institutions build, preserve, and manage wealth so they can pursue their financial goals

Wealth Management (WM) Platforms manages industry-leading platforms, across all WM channels and client segments, to provide a unified digital experience, unlock growth, and deliver efficiencies for Advisors, Clients, and Institutions. WM Platforms consists of nine sub-teams including: Field Experience & Platforms, Digital Client Experience & Platforms, Workplace Platforms, Automation & Workflow Solutions, Digital Trading & Investing, UX Design & Research, Strategy & Execution. Business Control & Support, and the Chief Operating Office.

The Workplace Platforms team defines and drives the digital, online and mobile customer experience for corporate clients and their employees. As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for contributing to the strategy to deliver a best in class experience for workplace participants. More specifically, you will be responsible for supporting and delivering on the division’s top initiative, Unified Participant Experience, whereby all stock plan participants will be given the same online customer experience for Shareworks and Equity Edge Online corporate clients.

What you’ll do in the role:

• Collaborate with a variety of internal stakeholders, including technology, UX, operations, sales support, risk, legal and compliance, to communicate changes, coordinate deliverables, track and report on progress.

• Write requirements/epics/stories and work closely with technical delivery managers and development team to ensure that user stories are delivered on time and within scope

• Work with cross functional teams to design and develop new features and enhancements

• Identify and prioritize features based on customer needs, business goals, and market trends

• Contribute to and maintain key strategic presentation materials used to inform executive decision-making

• Ensure appropriate implementation of risk controls based on control partner (e.g., legal & compliance) input

• Analyze product performance and customer feedback to make data-driven decisions about product improvements and new features

Skills Required:

• 9.5 Years of transferrable experience across work and higher education

• 5+ years as a product owner/manager/analyst

• 5+ years of experience with technology development process and lifecycle (Agile/Waterfall)

• Strong understanding of the corporate stock plan business and operating paradigms

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with ability to build relationships with stakeholders across the organization

• Ability to gather and synthesize information from multiple stakeholder groups (including end users) to enable decision making

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to take a problem statement and solution it with a set of clear and concise business rules

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years.  Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $110,000 and $190,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).