Director, Strategy & Execution - ETF & Index Investments

Invesco Ltd.; Downers Grove (IL); Hybride; USD 180 000 - 250 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Hybrid work schedule

401(K) matching

Health & wellbeing benefits

Parental Leave benefits

Employee stock purchase plan

Flexible paid time off

Résumé du poste

Invesco Ltd. is seeking a seasoned Director of Strategy & Execution in Downers Grove to translate ETF strategy into scalable operating plans across regions and functions. You will align governance, KPIs, and talent to support growth, reduce friction, and strengthen competitiveness across Investments, Product, Distribution, and Technology.

The role emphasizes execution, cross-functional leadership, and global scalability with a focus on risk management and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• College graduate in related field or equivalent work experience.
• 10+ years in technical leadership roles.
• MBA and/or CFA/CIMA preferred.
• Senior leadership in ETFs or asset management.
• Proven track record delivering global strategy execution.
• Experience with Technology and Enterprise Architecture teams.
• Deep ETF lifecycle knowledge from product to client.
• Experience in global, multi-region environments.
• Strong execution, strategic judgment.
• Change leadership and matrix-managed alignment.
• Commercially aware and operationally rigorous.
• Influential communicator without direct authority.
• Understanding of tech, operating models enabling outcomes.
• Adept at incident triage, cross-functional coordination and risk management.
• Calm under complexity; decisive under pressure.
• Trusted partner to senior leadership, boards, regulators.
• Builder of clarity, accountability, and momentum.
• Direct ETF platform, capital markets experience preferred.
• Leadership of large-scale tech/data/infrastructure programs preferred.
• Comfort working across Investments, Distribution, Technology.
• Familiarity with global ETF regulatory structures preferred.

Responsabilités

• Translate global ETF strategy into executable operating plans.
• Lead a high-performing global ETF operating organization.
• Ensure operational and primary market readiness for ETFs.
• Drive partnerships with index providers, vendors, exchanges, custodians, and service providers.
• Own the ETF operating model and governance cadence.
• Manage ETF platform capabilities across trading, portfolio management, data, onboarding, and launch readiness.
• Create governance framework and cadence for decisions and logs across product and distribution partnerships.
• Own the ETF execution risk & control framework with risk, compliance, audit, and operations.
• Lead incident response and playbooks for material operational events.

Connaissances

Leadership

ETF experience

Cross-functional

Strategy execution

Regulatory knowledge

Formation

Bachelor’s degree or related work experience

MBA preferred

Description du poste

About Invesco

As one of the world’s leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world. If you’re looking for challenging work, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco.

What’s in it for you?

Our people are at the very core of our success. Invesco employees get more out of life through our comprehensive compensation and benefit offerings including:

• Flexible paid time off

• Hybrid work schedule

• 401(K) matching of 100% up to the first 6% with a discretionary supplemental contribution

• Health & wellbeing benefits

• Parental Leave benefits

• Employee stock purchase plan

Job Description

The Role:

The Director, Strategy & Execution is the senior executive responsible for turning global ETF strategy into disciplined, scalable execution across regions, platforms, and functions. The role serves as the integrator and operator‑in‑chief for the ETF & Index business—aligning a long-term vision to commercial priorities, operating models, technology, governance, KPIs, benefits realization and continuous improvement with right talent to support growth, resilience, and long‑term competitiveness. This leader operates at the intersection of strategy, investment capabilities, people, and platform acting as the connective tissue across Investments, Product, Distribution, Technology, Operations, Risk, and Enterprise Architecture globally. This role is central to ensuring that Invesco’s ETF growth ambition is matched by execution capability—reducing friction, lowering operational risk, and enabling leadership teams to focus on value creation rather than complexity management.

Responsibilities of the Role:

• Translate global ETF strategy into executable operating plans across regions and functions.

• Connect and lead a high‑performing global ETF operating organization with clear role clarity, accountability, project and resource planning.

• Enable commercial execution by ensuring operational and primary market readiness for:

• Drive operating and commercial rhythm for key external partnerships, including index providers, support vendors, exchanges, custodians, and service providers.

• Represent the ETF business in commercial and enterprise forums focused on strategy, risk, and scalability.

• Own and continuously evolve the global ETF operating model, including:

• Drive alignment between ETF business priorities and enterprise architecture to ensure platform support, growth, scale, and regulatory requirements.

• Lead delivery of critical ETF platform capabilities spanning trading, portfolio management, capital markets, data, onboarding, and launch readiness inclusive of performance and market quality monitoring of key teams and providers.

• Create governance framework and cadence to establish co-actioning on issues, decisions and project logs and translate constraints to actions across product and distribution partnerships.

• Own the ETF execution risk & control framework through engagement with investment support, risk, compliance, audit, ETF operations, and fund administration touchpoints.

• Lead incident response and playbooks for material operational events.

Requirements of the Role:

• College graduate in related field, or related work experience

• 10+ years relevant work experience in technical and leadership roles

• MBA and/or CFA/CIMA preferred

• Senior leadership experience in ETFs, asset management, or complex regulated financial services

• Track record of leading global strategy execution in both commercial and operational growth

• Experience partnering closely with Technology and Enterprise Architecture teams

• Strong understanding of ETF operating lifecycles, from product development through ongoing management and end client.

• Experience operating in global, multi‑region environments

• Highly execution‑oriented leader with strong strategic judgment

• Proven change leader and communicator who aligns complex, matrixed organizations

• Commercially aware and operationally rigorous

• Strong influencer without reliance on direct authority

• Deep understanding of how technology, operating models, and people enable commercial outcomes

• Adept at incident triage, cross-functional coordination and risk management.

• Calm under complexity; decisive under pressure

• Trusted partner to senior leadership, Boards, and regulators

• Builder of clarity, accountability, and momentum

• Direct experience with investment ETF platforms, capital markets, or quantitative/index‑based investing preferred

• Leadership of large‑scale technology, data, or infrastructure programs preferred

• Comfort working across Investments, Distribution, and Technology organizations preferred

• Familiarity with global ETF regulatory and market structures preferred

The total compensation offered for this position, which includes salary and incentive pay, will vary based on skills, experience and location. The salary range for this position in Downers Grove is $180,000 to $250,000 annually.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Worker Type

Employee

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Workplace Model

Pursuant to Invesco’s Workplace Policy, employees are expected to comply with the firm’s most current workplace model, which as of October 1, 2025, includes spending at least four full days each week working in an Invesco office. This reflects our belief that spending time together in the office helps us build stronger relationships, collaborate more easily, and support each other’s growth and development.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The job holder may be required to perform other duties as deemed appropriate by their manager from time to time.

Invesco’s culture of inclusivity and its commitment to diversity in the workplace are demonstrated through our people practices. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, or veteran status. Our equal opportunity employment efforts comply with all applicable U.S. state and federal laws governing non-discrimination in employment.