Director, Product Owner Technology Enablement

At MFS, you will find a culture that supports you in doing what you do best. Our employees work together to reach better outcomes, favoring the strongest idea over the strongest individual. We put people first and demonstrate care and compassion for our community and each other. Because what we do matters - to us as valued professionals and to the millions of people and institutions who rely on us to help them build more secure and prosperous futures.

THE ROLE

As Director, Trading Product Management, you will serve as the Chief Product Owner for Trading, with accountability for defining and delivering the vision, strategy, and technology delivery of the firm's trading platforms and capabilities across asset classes. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of trading technology within a global asset manager to deliver platforms that enhance execution quality, improve efficiency, and strengthen risk management in increasingly complex market environments.

Operating at the intersection of business and technology, this role leads the evolution of core trading platforms, including the Charles River Investment Management System (CRIMS), in close partnership with the investment, trading and technology teams. The role influences enterprise priorities, vendor direction, and platform innovation, including the thoughtful adoption of advanced trading capabilities. Balancing strategic leadership with disciplined execution, this leader ensures alignment between business objectives, technology investments, and delivery outcomes, driving scalable, resilient solutions across the end-to-end trading ecosystem.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Product Strategy & Trading Capability Development

• Define and own the strategic vision and roadmap for trading platforms across asset classes in partnership with trading, investment, and technology leadership.
• Translate trading workflows into scalable technology capabilities that enhance execution quality, liquidity access, cost efficiency, and risk management.
• Drive the evolution of trading technology capabilities across order and execution management, trade lifecycle processing, analytics, and workflow optimization.
• Incorporate market structure trends, regulatory developments, vendor innovation, and advanced data and analytics capabilities (including AI where appropriate) into product strategy.
• Maintain a strong external perspective on trading technology and market evolution, building relationships with industry peers, vendors, and market participants to inform strategy and bring leading practices into the organization.

Delivery Leadership, Execution & Platform Management

• Accountable for delivery and ongoing evolution of trading platforms, including CRIMS implementations, upgrades, stability, and performance.
• Own and prioritize product backlogs to align with business value, strategic outcomes, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead and align Agile teams ensuring clarity on priorities, dependencies, and milestones.
• Drive disciplined execution by managing risks, dependencies, and delivery outcomes, while embedding strong SDLC and platform stability practices.

Vendor Management & External Partnerships

• Own strategic relationships with key vendors, including Charles River, ensuring alignment on product direction, priorities, and delivery commitments in partnership with trading and technology leadership.
• Influence vendor roadmaps to align with evolving business, regulatory, and market needs.
• Ensure vendor performance, platform reliability, and service delivery meet enterprise standards and business expectations.
• Partner with technology leadership to optimize the balance of internal development and external platform capabilities.
• Maintain a forward-looking view of the OMS/OEMS vendor landscape, identifying capabilities that enhance, extend, or modernize existing solutions across trading and the investment lifecycle.

Partnership, Governance & Communication

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior Technology, Trading, and Investment leadership on technology platform strategy.
• Lead governance and prioritization approaches that enable transparent, data-driven decision-making.
• Clearly communicate trade-offs, risks, and dependencies, translating complex initiatives into clear and concise narratives.
• Establish metrics and feedback loops to ensure visibility into progress, value delivery, and platform performance.

Leadership, Collaboration & Product Community

• Build and develop high-performing product and delivery teams, fostering strong ownership, collaboration, and trading domain expertise.
• Elevate product management practices across the trading domain, driving consistency, accountability, and outcome-focused delivery.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to drive alignment across the product owner community, managing interdependencies and promoting best practices within a global, matrixed organization.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required; advanced degree and/or CFA preferred.
• 15+ years of experience in trading, trading technology, product management, or front-office systems within asset management or financial services.
• Deep expertise in trading workflows, including order and execution management, trade lifecycle processes, and trading data and analytics.
• Strong experience with the Charles River Investment Management System (CRIMS), including implementation, enhancement, and platform management.
• Proven track record of defining and delivering strategic trading platforms with measurable business impact.
• Strong experience operating within Agile frameworks, including backlog ownership, prioritization, and cross-team coordination.
• Experience managing strategic vendor relationships, including Charles River, within complex enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead large-scale, cross-functional initiatives.
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to navigate technical, operational, and organizational complexity.
• Exceptional communication and executive storytelling skills.
• Proven ability to lead through influence, align diverse stakeholders, and drive outcomes in a global, matrixed organization.
• Commercially minded with a pragmatic, forward-looking approach to problem solving.
• Familiarity with emerging technologies, including advanced analytics and AI, and their application within trading or investment workflows.

PREFERRED SKILLS

• CFA
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

At MFS, we believe in fair and transparent compensation. For that reason, we're including the salary range for this position. This range reflects our good-faith expectation forwhat we'll pay depending on the candidate's experience, training and education. In addition to the salary, we also offer significant and competitive incentive compensationbased on both individual and company performance. Other components of our Total Rewards Package include:

• MFS contributes an amount equal to 15% of your base salary to your retirement account that is separate from the company -sponsored 401(k)

• Education Assistance: MFS contributes $100 monthly up to $10,000 lifetime maximum directly to loan provider

• Education Assistance: Tuition reimbursement up to $8,000 annually

• Education Assistance: Access to discounted tutors and college coaches

• Generous time off and fully paid leaves including 20-weeks for maternity, 12-weeks for parental and caregiver leaves

• Choice of medical and dental plans and an and an employer contribution into the Health Savings Account

• Tax deferred commuter benefits & flexible spending accounts (medical & dependent care)

• Wellness Programs: Robust wellness webinars, employee assistance program with a focus on mental health, subsidized fitness benefit via Wellhub (formerly Gympass), where you can workout at gyms, studios and boutique fitness locations near you, join virtual personal training sessions and access a wide variety of well-being apps

Our compensation philosophy is to pay competitively for talent while ensuring equity across employees performing comparable work. We are committed to transparency - if you have questions about how we arrived at this range or what additional benefits and bonus opportunities come with the role, we'll be happy to discuss them

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