Digital Lending Platforms Product Manager - Assistant Vice President

About the role

Business Unit: Digital Client Experience & Platforms

Role

Position Location: 1 New York Plaza, NY

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. In addition, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is one of the world's largest networks of Financial Advisors.

The Wealth Management Platforms organization manages digital platforms and experiences across the Advisor, Workplace and Direct channels, ensuring that our capabilities lead the industry and are delivered and integrated seamlessly. Within the Wealth Management Platforms Organization, Digital Lending Platform Team is responsible for building an industry-leading, highly automated lending platform supporting the next phase of growth of Securities Based Lending, Tailored Lending and Mortgage Businesses.

We are hiring a talented product manager to help us build an industry-leading, highly automated lending platform to have a direct impact on Morgan Stanley U.S. Banks' growth strategy. This is a highly collaborative role, where you will work closely with our team of digital product managers and partner with engineers, designers, operations, credit, finance, and business stakeholders to transform the experience for all our customers

Position Summary

• Work in a fun, fast paced environment designing new and improved technology for our clients and internal staff
• Design innovative new products with market leading competitive advantages that revolutionize the way people manage and spend their money
• Work with technology, business, and control partners to define platform roadmap and requirements
• Engage in end user research, and use data analysis to inform requirements writing, and wireframe design of new products
• Present findings and project updates to executive leadership and key stakeholders
• Lead Agile product management teams, collaborating with design, research, technology, legal and compliance team and driving decision making across cross-functional group is preferred.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including legal, compliance, risk, technology and operations to enhance processes and streamline lending product related workflows

E x per i ence

• 5-7 years of professional experience in technology product management and design
• 5+ years of professional experience in the wealth management, retail banking, and/or consumer financial technology
• 5+ years of experience of building and scaling complex data platform
• Working knowledge of financial lending products
• Experience with software business analysis
• BA/BS required; MBA (or advanced degree) preferred.

Skills/Abilities

• Excellent communicator with solid written and verbal presentation skills
• Professional experience in consumer technology, banking, wealth management and /or top tier consulting firm
• Strong attention to detail in both technical and non-technical capacity
• Focus on usability and eye for design
• Excellent relationship building capabilities with partners both internal and external to the organization
• Independent initiative and comfort working in a fast-paced environment
• Strategic thinker able to define and evaluate alternatives, and translate goals into specific project tasks
• Highly developed sense of ownership and accountability for work
• Ability to adapt to change and evolving business needs
• Ability to measure a given business problem to both quantify the issue and the benefits from the technology solution
• Experience in integrating Agentic AI solutions in lending workflows is a plus

EOE M/F/D/V Committed to Diversity

What You Can Expect from Morgan Stanley

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients - helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that's differentiated - and we've done that for 90 years.

Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren't just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries.

At Morgan Stanley, you'll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences.

We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There's also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $85,000 and $140,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.