Product Director - Server OS Configuration Management

JPMorganChase; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan in the United Kingdom seeks a Product Director (Executive Director) for Image as a Service – Server OS Configuration Management to lead customer-centric development and shape the product vision, roadmap, and operating model for secure, automated enforcement of server OS desired state at scale across on-prem and public cloud.

Collaboration with engineering, infrastructure operations, and product security is essential to deliver audit-ready outcomes and a seamless consumer experience

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering products, projects, or technology applications.
• Extensive knowledge of the product development life cycle, technical design, and data analytics.
• Proven ability to influence the adoption of key product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management.
• Experience driving change within organizations and managing stakeholders across multiple functions.
• Data-driven decision making: ability to define success metrics and manage to outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Oversees the product strategy, roadmap, vision, development, execution, risk management, and business growth targets.
• Leads the entire product life cycle through planning, execution, and future development by continuously adapting, developing new products and methodologies, managing risks, and achieving business targets like cost, features, reusability, and reliability to support growth.
• Coaches and mentors the product team on best practices, such as solution generation, market research, storyboarding, mind‑mapping, prototyping methods, product adoption strategies, and product delivery, enabling them to effectively deliver on objectives.
• Owns product performance and is accountable for investing in enhancements to achieve business objectives.
• Monitors market trends, conducts competitive analysis, and identifies opportunities for product differentiation.

Skills

Product lifecycle

Data analytics

Stakeholder management

Change management

Data-driven decision making

Tools

Puppet (RHEL)

SCCM/MECM

Job description

Job Description

Ignite your passion for product innovation by leading customer‑centric development, inspiring solutions, and shaping the future with your strategic vision and influence.

As a Product Director (Executive Director) in Image as a Service – Server OS Configuration Management, you lead innovation through the development of products and features that delight customers. As a leader on the team, you leverage your advanced capabilities to challenge traditional approaches, remove barriers to success, and foster a culture of continuous innovation that helps inspire cross‑functional teams to create groundbreaking solutions that address customer needs. You own the product vision, roadmap, and operating model that enable secure, automated enforcement of server OS desired state at scale, while partnering closely with engineering, infrastructure operations, and product security to deliver audit‑ready outcomes and an effortless consumer experience. Scope includes on‑prem and public cloud across physical servers, virtual servers, and containers.

Job Responsibilities

• Oversees the product strategy, roadmap, vision, development, execution, risk management, and business growth targets
• Leads the entire product life cycle through planning, execution, and future development by continuously adapting, developing new products and methodologies, managing risks, and achieving business targets like cost, features, reusability, and reliability to support growth
• Coaches and mentors the product team on best practices, such as solution generation, market research, storyboarding, mind‑mapping, prototyping methods, product adoption strategies, and product delivery, enabling them to effectively deliver on objectives
• Owns product performance and is accountable for investing in enhancements to achieve business objectives
• Monitors market trends, conducts competitive analysis, and identifies opportunities for product differentiation

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Significant experience or equivalent expertise delivering products, projects, or technology applications
• Extensive knowledge of the product development life cycle, technical design, and data analytics
• Proven ability to influence the adoption of key product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management
• Experience driving change within organizations and managing stakeholders across multiple functions, including navigating shared ownership models
• Data‑driven decision making: ability to define success metrics and manage to outcomes

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Strong technical fluency in server operating systems and OS configuration management concepts (desired state, drift, policy/standards enforcement, change governance)
• Familiarity with configuration tooling ecosystems such as Puppet (RHEL) and SCCM/MECM (Windows), and experience planning modernization/migrations for enterprise platform capabilities
• Experience building audit‑ready platforms: evidence generation, control alignment, exception workflows, and reporting
• Recognized thought leadership in infrastructure automation, platform security, or large-scale compute standardization

About Us

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first‑class business in a first‑class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long‑term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

About The Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.