Head of Product Development and Implementation – LATAM integration , SVP

State Street; Greater London; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street seeks a seasoned Product Development Manager to drive M&A integration and product development in support of LATAM expansion. The role reports to the Head of Custody, Digital & Fund Services.

The candidate will lead complex programs spanning multiple lines of business, with a focus on delivering client-ready capabilities within tight timeframes. The successful candidate will operate across global teams, manage governance, and balance agile and waterfall approaches to ensure

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead cross‑functional development and integration programs.
• Experience delivering complex changes across global lines of business.
• Strong track record of meeting deadlines and managing multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Establish strategic development and integration path for State Street and clients.
• Govern development programs with senior stakeholder engagement.
• Budgeting and resourcing for development work aligned to deals.
• Plan, track and deliver development and integration streams.
• Lead design workshops to define requirements, use cases and tests.
• Ensure operational readiness and client communication during integration.
• Coordinate with Technology to deliver build design and execution.

Skills

Securities Services SME

Program management

Change management (Agile/Waterfall)

Stakeholder management

Communication

Delivery leadership

Data integration

Job description

The Product organisation is recruiting for a seasoned Product Development Manager to execute on M&A integration and product development builds in support of State Street’s expansion plans in LATAM. The role will report into the Head of Custody, Digital & Fund Services. State Street’s product organisation is leading an exciting period of transformation for the business and requires experienced leaders in product development to engage across the organisation and ensure delivery against a multi-year complex program of change.

Function

You will lead complex cross functional development and integration projects that are critical to the success of State Street in Latam. The work impacts multiple State Street lines of business, clients, regulators and agents. You will run the build out of securities services capabilities in local markets and insure integration of those services into State Street’s global infrastructure. You will work in a time pressured environment with clear deadlines for major deliverables and ultimately deliver a client ready capability to the business.

Responsibilities

• Establish the strategic development and integration path for State Street and its clients
• Establishing governance for development programs including the engagement of senior stakeholder management across the organisation
• Financial planning and securing the required resourcing for development and integration work benchmarked to relevant deal models and budgets
• Project planning and accountability for the status of development and integration
• Project execution, including setting up the required streams of work and work stream leadership
• Leading design workshops across organisations and functions to establish requirements, use cases, test planning
• Organisation planning to ensure operational readiness
• Working with client facing teams to ensure client communication, testing and pre/post integration services are fit to operate
• Working with Technology to deliver on build design and execution

Skills

• Securities Services subject matter expertise, including familiarity with market developments and trends
• Exceptional program management skills backed by relevant qualifications
• Experience in managing change in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Strong communication skills and comfortable managing across organisations at both senior and junior levels to get development complete
• Strong completer / finisher
• Prior experience of successfully delivering change in a complex environment whilst managing competing priorities
• Track record of solving data integration challenges across complex and at scale product sets

Experience

• Seasoned SVP / Managing Director with 10+ years experience in Securities Services
• Worked in Product organisations in prior roles
• Operated at a global level and experienced in complex markets, LATAM preferably
• Prior experience working in Operations and/or technology
• Consultative experience working with institutional investors
• Strong team leadership and management skills

About State Street

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