Product Owner, Marketing

10500 WMC Wellington Management Company LLP; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plan

Health and wellbeing

Dental

Vision

Pharmacy coverage

Health savings account

Flexible spending accounts and Commut

employee assistance program

Life and disability insurance

Tuition/CFA reimbursement

Paid time off (leave/holidays/vacation

Job summary

Wellington Management Co. is seeking a Product Owner, Marketing, to define the product vision, roadmap, and backlog for marketing capabilities that reach and measure priority audiences across brand, campaigns, channels, events, and communications.

You will partner with marketing, technology, and business leaders to translate strategy into outcomes, prioritize work, and drive adoption with strong product judgment and delivery discipline. The role is based in Boston with hybrid work flexibility.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10+ years in product ownership/management within asset management or financial services.
• Experience defining strategy, roadmaps, backlogs, requirements, and success metrics.
• Ability to partner with engineering, data, operations, risk, and business stakeholders in Agile delivery.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve product vision, strategy and prioritized roadmap for Marketing capabilities in line with Client Platform strategy.
• Own backlog, sequencing, and decision rights; lead planning, refinement, and delivery ceremonies with engineering and design.
• Drive workflow transformations using technology, data, automation, and AI where appropriate.
• Exercise independent product judgment, align stakeholders, and ensure adoption and measurable value.

Skills

Product ownership

Product management

Business analysis

Agile delivery

Marketing strategy

Audience activation

Brand & communications

Data & AI awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

About Us

Wellington Management offers comprehensive investment management capabilities that span nearly all segments of the global capital markets. Our investment solutions, tailored to the unique return and risk objectives of institutional clients in more than 60 countries, draw on a robust body of proprietary research and a collaborative culture that encourages independent thought and healthy debate. As a private partnership, we believe our ownership structure fosters a long‑term view that aligns our perspectives with those of our clients.

About the Role

The Product Owner, Marketing, is accountable for the product vision, roadmap, prioritization, and measurable outcomes for the capabilities used to identify, reach, engage, and measure priority audiences through coordinated brand, campaign, channel, event, communications, and demand‑generation experiences. The Product Owner translates Client Platform strategy and the target operating model into a clear product direction and sequenced backlog grounded in user needs, business outcomes, risk, dependencies, and delivery capacity. Sitting at the intersection of Marketing, business and channel leaders, campaign managers, corporate communications and public relations, sales, horizontal and vertical Product Owners, the Product Owner leads continuous discovery, defines the problems and outcomes the product will address, and makes explicit decisions about what should be delivered, when, and why it matters. Technology partners are accountable for how solutions are designed, built, supported, and sustained.

Responsibilities

• Product Vision, Strategy & Prioritization Define and evolve a product vision and outcome‑oriented roadmap aligned with Client Platform strategy and the target operating model. Own the business outcomes and value delivered through Marketing capabilities. Establish product objectives, success measures, and decision principles that make priorities and trade‑offs transparent. Translate business priorities into a sequenced roadmap focused on measurable business outcomes. Own backlog ordering, sequencing, and capacity‑allocation trade‑offs within the assigned scope. Consider cross‑product, platform, data, and operating‑model implications when setting direction and priorities, and coordinate decisions affecting shared capabilities, journeys, or enterprise platforms. Make clear decisions to proceed, defer, reshape, or decline requests, and explain the evidence and trade‑offs behind those decisions. Partner with business stakeholders and technology partners to align capabilities with future‑state workflows.
• Stakeholder Management & Adoption Serve as the primary product representative for business stakeholders and technology delivery teams. Build alignment across other Product Owners in the Client, Infrastructure, and Investment Platforms. Drive adoption, stakeholder engagement, and realization of business value. Maintain explicit cross‑product handoffs and prevent the product from duplicating capabilities owned elsewhere. Own and maintain a healthy, prioritized, and sufficiently refined product backlog that translates strategy and discovery findings into clear, well‑scoped work ahead of planning. Lead product decision‑making and actively participate in backlog refinement, release planning, and relevant delivery ceremonies in partnership with engineering, design, and delivery leads. Serve as the primary product decision‑maker during delivery, responding promptly to questions, clarifying requirements, and making timely scope and sequencing trade‑offs when constraints or new information emerge. Surface dependencies, delivery risks, data constraints, and operating‑model impacts early, working with the appropriate owners to resolve or elevate them. Remain accountable after launch for evaluating product performance, identifying adoption barriers, and translating evidence into product decisions and prioritized improvements.
• Backlog, Requirements & Delivery Own and maintain a healthy, prioritized, and sufficiently refined product backlog that translates strategy and discovery findings into clear, well‑scoped work ahead of planning. Lead product decision‑making and actively participate in backlog refinement, release planning, and relevant delivery ceremonies in partnership with engineering, design, and delivery leads. Serve as the primary product decision‑maker during delivery, responding promptly to questions, clarifying requirements, and making timely scope and sequencing trade‑offs when constraints or new information emerge. Surface dependencies, delivery risks, data constraints, and operating‑model impacts early, working with the appropriate owners to resolve or elevate them. Remain accountable after launch for evaluating product performance, identifying adoption barriers, and translating evidence into product decisions and prioritized improvements.
• Workflow Transformation, Data & Technology Evaluate workflows for opportunities to simplify, standardize, redesign, automate, or enable work through fit‑for‑purpose technology, data, automation, and AI capabilities. Act as a self‑sufficient builder with AI, using available tools to prototype, test, and refine workflow improvements while engaging technology SMEs when solutions require scale, controls, or deeper technical expertise. Compare solution options using expected value, user impact, feasibility, risk, controls, data readiness, total cost of ownership, and long‑term maintainability. Apply shared ownership rules for data, analytics, content, workflow automation, governance, and authoritative source information when shaping requirements.
• Product Judgment, Stakeholder Alignment & Adoption Exercise independent product judgment within the agreed strategy, product boundaries, governance, and decision rights. Within the assigned product scope, order the backlog, recommend roadmap changes, make delivery‑level scope trade‑offs, and accept or reject delivered work against agreed criteria. Ensure affected stakeholders have useful visibility into what is changing, when it is changing, why it matters, and what readiness or adoption actions are needed. Coordinate with the appropriate owners to address launch readiness and adoption needs. Connect work across functions and remain accountable for product outcomes without assuming ownership for every downstream activity. Use the stated product boundary to resolve overlap and raise unresolved decision‑right questions before they create duplicate roadmaps or delivery work.

What Success Looks Like

Product direction, boundaries, decision rights, priorities, and trade‑offs are clear and aligned with Client Platform strategy and the target operating model. Delivery teams have clear, refined work, timely product decisions, and early visibility into risks and dependencies, resulting in predictable delivery and limited avoidable rework. Workflow improvements use process change, technology, data, automation, and AI where they provide meaningful value and can be implemented and governed responsibly.

Qualifications

Experience 10+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, business analysis, or a related role within asset management, financial services, or another complex regulated environment. Experience defining product strategy, roadmaps, backlogs, requirements, and success measures for products, platforms, or workflow capabilities. Demonstrated ability to lead product discovery, translate user and business needs into clear priorities, and move initiatives from problem definition through delivery and measurable adoption. Experience partnering with engineering, design, data, operations, risk, compliance, and business stakeholders in Agile or iterative delivery environments. Working knowledge of technology, data, automation, and AI capabilities, with the judgment to select and apply them appropriately in a regulated environment. Demonstrated experience relevant to: Marketing strategy, planning, audience, and market prioritization; Brand and corporate communications; Audience, persona, market, consultant, and competitive intelligence; Campaign orchestration and audience activation.

Leadership Competencies

Strong product judgment and outcome orientation, including the ability to distinguish user problems from requested solutions and stakeholder input from product priority. Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to propose a practical initial direction, test assumptions, and adjust based on evidence. Ability to make transparent trade‑offs, defend product decisions constructively, and influence senior and cross‑functional stakeholders. Strong delivery discipline, including timely decisions, clear requirements, active risk management, and accountability through release and post‑launch evaluation. Strong partnership with engineering and design, supported by enough technical, data, and workflow understanding to make informed scope decisions. Ability to build alignment through clear problem framing, evidence, transparent trade‑offs, and timely decisions across senior and cross‑functional stakeholders. Ability to balance strategic thinking, disciplined execution, user experience, controls, and long‑term product sustainability. Ability to operate across product boundaries while preserving clear accountability for this product’s outcomes and avoiding duplicate ownership.

Education

Bachelor's degree required. Advanced degree and/or relevant professional qualification preferred.

Job Title

Product Owner, Marketing

Job Family Location

280 Congress

We are dedicated to building and maintaining a diversified workforce and considering a broad array of candidates with a variety of skill, workplace experiences, and backgrounds. As an equal opportunity employer, Wellington Management considers all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, religion, creed, national origin, age, ancestry, disability (physical or mental), medical condition, citizenship, marital status, pregnancy, veteran or military status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

• retirement plan
• health and wellbeing
• dental
• vision
• pharmacy coverage
• health savings account
• flexible spending accounts and commuter program
• employee assistance program
• life and disability insurance
• adoption assistance
• back‑up childcare
• tuition/CFA reimbursement
• paid time off (leave of absence, paid holidays, volunteer, sick and vacation time)

We believe that in person interactions inspire and energize our community and are essential to our culture. In support of this commitment, our employees work from our offices 4 days a week with flexibility to work remotely 1 day a week. We believe that this approach ultimately supports our mission to deliver investment excellence to our clients and their beneficiaries over the long term.

We believe that in person interactions inspire and energize our community and are essential to our culture. In support of this commitment, our employees work from our offices 4 days a week with flexibility to work remotely 1 day a week. We believe that this approach ultimately supports our mission to deliver investment excellence to our clients and their beneficiaries over the long term.

For more information, please visit https://www.wellington.com/en/