VP, Wealth Operations & Supervisory Excellence

State Street; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street's Wealth Custody & Clearing team in Boston seeks a Vice President, Wealth Operations & Supervision to lead day-to-day execution, supervision across broker-dealer activities, and coordination across Operations, Client Service, Trading, and Technology.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership in a growth environment, cross-functional collaboration, risk controls, and scalable end-to-end operating model to support clients and regulatory obligations.

Responsibilities

• Tactical operating leadership: Lead the day-to-day operating agenda across Wealth Custody & Clearing, converting strategic priorities into coordinated workplans, decisions, owners, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Cross-functional execution: Coordinate across Client Service, Trading, Asset Servicing, Client Onboarding, Account Maintenance, Cashiering, Risk, Compliance, Product, and Technology to ensure issues and initiatives are managed end-to-end rather than within functional silos.
• Supervision and regulatory oversight: Provide experienced supervisory leadership across applicable broker-dealer activities, ensuring clear supervisory ownership, timely review, appropriate escalation, and evidence that supervisory obligations are being performed.
• Fraud oversight and implementation: Partner with Risk, Compliance, Technology, functional leaders, and external providers to implement and oversee scalable fraud prevention, detection, escalation, investigation, and reporting capabilities across Wealth Custody & Clearing.
• Operating governance: Establish and lead management routines covering operational performance, risk and controls, incidents, client-impacting issues, capacity, change readiness, and delivery commitments.
• First-line risk leadership: Partner with functional leaders to identify operational, fraud, and regulatory risks, assess control design and effectiveness, address gaps, and maintain clear accountability for remediation.
• Senior escalation management: Serve as a senior escalation point for high-risk, time-sensitive, or cross-functional operational matters, driving fact-based decisions, coordinated communication, and durable resolution.
• Functional leadership enablement: Support and challenge functional leaders while preserving their ownership of subject-matter decisions, team performance, procedures, and daily production within their respective domains.
• Client and launch readiness: Lead operational coordination fo

Job description

State Street's Wealth Custody & Clearing team in Boston seeks a Vice President, Wealth Operations & Supervision to lead day-to-day execution, supervision across broker-dealer activities, and coordination across Operations, Client Service, Trading, and Technology.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership in a growth environment, cross-functional collaboration, risk controls, and scalable end-to-end operating model to support clients and regulatory obligations.