Director, Offer Product Management, Retirement Plan Services (PL)

Charles Schwab; Lone Tree (CO); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with company match

Parental leave and family benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Job summary

Charles Schwab is seeking a senior leader to oversee a portfolio of retirement plan offers within Retirement Plan Services, including NQ Deferred Compensation, Defined Benefit, PEP/MEP, ESOP, Puerto Rico solutions, and HSA integrations.

You will own strategy, roadmap, and end-to-end execution, leading a team of direct reports while partnering across operations, technology, legal, compliance, marketing, and finance. Strong leadership and strategic execution are essential.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of experience in retirement services, financial services product management, and business transformation.
• Demonstrated experience supporting or leading PEP/MEPs and/or ESOPs, with strong understanding of their implications.
• Proven ability to translate strategy into executable business outcomes with roadmaps, requirements, and measurable criteria.
• Strong decision-making and analytical judgment in ambiguous environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for executive-level presentations.
• Demonstrated people leadership including coaching and delivery accountability.
• Experience in product lifecycle management from strategy to governance.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders across multiple functions.

Responsibilities

• Own offer strategy and roadmap for multiple retirement plan products.
• Lead a portfolio of specialized offers including NQ, DB, PEP/MEP, ESOP, Puerto Rico, and HSA integrations.
• Be a working manager and offer owner with end-to-end ownership of priorities.
• Build and grow a high-performing team and guide stakeholder engagement.
• Translate strategy into business cases, roadmaps, and implementation plans.
• Synthesize data and client insights to inform leadership decisions.
• Support offer governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance.
• Monitor market trends and consultant needs to identify opportunities for enhancements.
• Define success metrics and monitor KPIs to drive value across programs.
• Lead through ambiguity and adapt to evolving scope and priorities.

Skills

Retirement services

Product management

People leadership

Strategic planning

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Regulatory awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Your opportunity

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

Ready to shape the future of retirement plans at Schwab? In this role, you will lead the development and management of a portfolio of specialized retirement plan offers within Retirement Plan Services: Nonqualified Deferred Compensation, Defined Benefit, Pooled Employer Plans and Multiple Employer Plans, Employee Stock Ownership Plans, Puerto Rico retirement solutions, and Health Savings Account integrations. You will advance offer strategy, turn business priorities into executable plans, and partner across Schwab to deliver offers and client experiences that drive growth, retention, risk management, and operational scalability.

This is a true working-manager role: you will lead a team of direct reports while personally owning one or more offers. You will blend strategic leadership, hands‑on offer ownership, people leadership, business case development, and cross‑functional execution, working alongside operations, technology, legal, compliance, marketing, relationship management, and finance partners to navigate complex retirement plan capabilities.

In this role, an "offer" refers to a distinct retirement plan product or solution within Retirement Plan Services (for example, Nonqualified Deferred Compensation, Pooled Employer Plans, or Employee Stock Ownership Plans) that is managed across its full lifecycle, including its value proposition, target market, operating model, risk posture, and roadmap.

This Role Will

• Own offer strategy and roadmap. Set the direction, priorities, and multi‑year roadmap for your offers, aligned with RPS growth objectives, client needs, market trends, regulatory requirements, operational capacity, and technology modernization priorities.
• Lead a portfolio of specialized offers. Oversee NQ, DB, PEP/MEP, ESOP, Puerto Rico, and HSA integration offers, ensuring each has a clear value proposition, target market, operating model, risk posture, and enhancement roadmap.
• Be a working manager and offer owner. Take full ownership of assigned offer(s), including strategy, business requirements, stakeholder alignment, performance monitoring, issue resolution, and near‑term and long‑term priorities.
• Build and grow a high‑performing team. Manage, coach, and develop direct reports, guiding offer strategy, stakeholder engagement, prioritization, executive communications, and delivery accountability.
• Turn strategy into results. Convert priorities into business cases, roadmaps, requirements, decision documents, implementation plans, and measurable outcomes that enable cross‑functional partners to execute effectively.
• Inform senior leadership decisions. Synthesize data, client feedback, competitive insights, operational impacts, financial considerations, and risk analysis into concise recommendations, presentations, and decision materials.
• Support offer governance and risk management. Ensure offer decisions consider fiduciary, regulatory, operational, client, participant, technology, financial, and reputational implications, escalating issues and decisions when needed.
• Evaluate market, client, and consultant needs. Monitor retirement industry trends, competitive positioning, consultant expectations, sales opportunities, client feedback, and participant experience needs to identify opportunities for offer enhancements or new capabilities.
• Define success and manage performance. Establish and monitor KPIs, adoption measures, client outcomes, operational indicators, and business value metrics to assess offer health and inform future recommendations.
• Lead through ambiguity and change. Operate effectively as scope, priorities, market needs, and technology dependencies evolve, staying focused on business outcomes and stakeholder alignment.

What you have

Required Qualifications

• 7–10 years of experience in retirement services, financial services product management, and business transformation, or platform and operating‑model change.
• Demonstrated experience supporting or leading PEP/MEPs and/or ESOPs, with a strong understanding of their business, operational, regulatory, and client implications.
• Proven ability to translate strategy into executable business outcomes, including business cases, roadmaps, requirements, launch plans, and measurable success criteria.
• Strong decision‑making and analytical judgment, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, balance trade‑offs, and evaluate business, client, operational, financial, regulatory, and risk implications, including client demand, operational feasibility, technology complexity, and competitive positioning. Comfort operating in a complex, growth‑oriented, and dynamic environment where scope evolves as programs advance.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize data, develop recommendations, create presentations, and present to executive leadership.
• Demonstrated people leadership experience, including coaching, developing, prioritizing work across a team, and holding team members accountable for high‑quality outcomes, with the ability to lead strategic initiatives while personally owning detailed work products, decisions, and deliverables as a working manager.
• Strong product management discipline, including experience managing a product or offer lifecycle from strategy and discovery through requirements, implementation, launch, optimization, and ongoing governance.
• Exceptional cross‑functional leadership across Product, Operations, Technology, Marketing, Relationship Management, Compliance, Legal, and Finance, with the ability to influence senior leaders without direct reporting authority, build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, resolve competing priorities, and drive alignment across matrixed teams.
• Bachelor's degree

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep understanding of defined contribution recordkeeping and plan sponsor, participant, and consultant experiences, with the ability to translate complexity for internal and external audiences.
• Experience defining and launching new offers, service models, client experiences, or operating capabilities in a B2B financial services context.
• Experience with nonqualified deferred compensation, defined benefit, Puerto Rico qualified plans, health savings account integrations, or other specialized retirement and benefit solutions.
• Experience developing market assessments, competitive analyses, pricing considerations, business cases, and financial projections to support new or enhanced offer decisions.
• Familiarity with Agile, product discovery, backlog prioritization, user story development, acceptance criteria, and delivery governance.
• Experience engaging with field teams, relationship managers, consultants, plan sponsors, or external partners to gather feedback, validate needs, and support go‑to‑market readiness.
• Advanced degree, product management certification, project management certification, or relevant retirement industry credential.

What’s in it for you

At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.

We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance