VPII Product Management, Agentic Product Development Lifecycle

LPL Financial Corp; Fort Mill, Charlotte (SC, NC); On-site; USD 156,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K matching

Health benefits

Employee stock options

Paid time off

Volunteer time off

Job summary

Join LPL Financial as Vice President II, Product Management, Agentic Product Development. Lead strategy, roadmaps, and adoption of agentic capabilities across the product lifecycle, partnering across product, design, engineering, business, and control teams to redesign workflows and ensure accountable decisions.

You will ground development in customer insights, prove end-to-end approaches, and establish repeatable practices that help teams test ideas, deliver useful changes, and learn from

Qualifications

• 10 or more years of relevant experience in product management or product development leadership.
• Experience improving how cross-functional teams discover, build, release, and operate products, with measurable results.
• Experience implementing AI agents or automation in working processes and improving those capabilities after launch.
• Experience with of customer research, experimentation, software delivery, and the tools that connect these activities.
• Experience leading teams, driving adoption, and resolving competing priorities across product, design, engineering, business, and control functions.

Responsibilities

• Define the enterprise strategy and roadmap for agentic workflows across discovery, research, design, planning, development, testing, release, and ongoing product improvement.
• Redesign cross-functional workflows by removing unnecessary steps and defining where agents may act independently, collaborate with people, or require human approval.
• Lead the development and integration of capabilities that connect customer evidence, product requirements, designs, code, tests, and production feedback.
• Partner with teams on real product initiatives to test complete workflows, resolve failures, and establish scalable approaches other teams can adopt.
• Evaluate internal and third-party capabilities and make build-versus-buy recommendations based on effectiveness, integration requirements, security, and cost.
• Establish evaluation, permission, and review requirements with engineering and control partners so agent actions are testable, traceable, and recoverable.
• Lead product managers and accelerate adoption through practical training, team feedback, and changes to day-to-day working practices.
• Measure time from idea to validated learning and release, along with quality, review effort, rework, adoption, and cost.

Job description

Lead with Purpose, Unlock Your Team’s Passion At LPL, people leaders hold the key to the employee experience - shaping culture, driving performance, and guiding individuals to new heights. Because when that happens, we all win - clients, LPL, and most importantly, our employees. If you're ready to lead with intention and discover what's possible, LPL Financial invites you to apply today.

Generate Interest Help define the next generation of product development at LPL Financial. In this enterprise leadership role, you will turn the promise of AI agents into practical, governed ways of working that help product teams move from customer insight to validated outcomes faster. You will shape the strategy, prove it through real initiatives, and scale the capabilities and operating practices that allow people and agents to work together with clarity and accountability.

Job Overview As Vice President II, Product Management, Agentic Product Development, you will lead the strategy, roadmap, and adoption of agentic capabilities across the product development lifecycle. Partnering with product, design, engineering, business, and control teams, you will redesign workflows so agents can complete connected tasks, evaluate their work, and bring decisions to the right people. You will ground development in real product initiatives, prove an end-to-end approach, and establish repeatable practices that help teams test ideas, deliver useful changes, and learn from customers faster with less rework and clear decision accountability.

Responsibilities

• Define the enterprise strategy and roadmap for agentic workflows across discovery, research, design, planning, development, testing, release, and ongoing product improvement.
• Redesign cross-functional workflows by removing unnecessary steps and defining where agents may act independently, collaborate with people, or require human approval.
• Lead the development and integration of capabilities that connect customer evidence, product requirements, designs, code, tests, and production feedback.
• Partner with teams on real product initiatives to test complete workflows, resolve failures, and establish scalable approaches other teams can adopt.
• Evaluate internal and third-party capabilities and make build-versus-buy recommendations based on effectiveness, integration requirements, security, and cost.
• Establish evaluation, permission, and review requirements with engineering and control partners so agent actions are testable, traceable, and recoverable.
• Lead product managers and accelerate adoption through practical training, team feedback, and changes to day-to-day working practices.
• Measure time from idea to validated learning and release, along with quality, review effort, rework, adoption, and cost.

Requirements

• 10 or more years of relevant experience in product management or product development leadership.
• Experience improving how cross-functional teams discover, build, release, and operate products, with measurable results.
• Experience implementing AI agents or automation in working processes and improving those capabilities after launch.
• Experience with of customer research, experimentation, software delivery, and the tools that connect these activities.
• Experience leading teams, driving adoption, and resolving competing priorities across product, design, engineering, business, and control functions.

Core Competencies

• Enterprise product strategy and roadmap leadership
• Agent autonomy, evaluation, human review, and technical tradeoff judgment
• Cross-functional influence, change leadership, and adoption

Preferences

• Experience in financial services or another regulated industry.
• Experience making build-versus-buy decisions for AI, automation, or product-development platforms.
• Experience establishing governance for agent permissions, traceability, recovery, and human approval.

Pay and Benefits

• Pay Range: $156,354.00 - $260,590.00
• Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location.
• Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more.

Information on Interviews: LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum. During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant’s bank or credit card. Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at [phone].

EEO.

EAC 5.19.26 LPL Financial is the nation’s largest independent broker-dealer.* Our company is widely known for its financial strength, exceptional service, and favorable industry reputation among financial professionals. To understand who we are, it’s important to know our core belief: financial guidance is a fundamental need for everyone. LPL Financial creates the space to let you do what you do best – create personal, long-term client relationships that turn financial aspirations into realities. Each year, thousands of financial professionals successfully manage billions of dollars in assets. Because our company is not too big and not too small, you can seize the opportunity to make a real impact. To learn more about our organization visit our About LPL page. * As reported by Financial Planning magazine, June 1996-2019, based on total revenue. Want to learn more about the benefits of working at LPL? Check out the links below! We Are LPL Benefits Culture Social Responsibility

Company Overview

LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace(6) , LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses.

Join the LPL team and help us make a difference by turning life’s aspirations into financial realities.