Product Operation Manager, Charles River Development, Assistant Vice President

Who we are looking for

Charles River for Private Markets is seeking a Product Manager, Private Markets to support a high performing team to execute the vision, strategy, creation, and advocacy of the core Charles River for Private Markets real assets offering. In this role, you will report directly to the VP of Product and be responsible for enhancing our overall infrastructure and real estate product offering.

You will work jointly with the product, engineering, and delivery teams to build and deliver the best possible experiences and value to customers within private markets investment management through the Charles River for Private Markets platform.

The ideal candidate will have prior real assets investment background, excellent business acumen, passionate about evangelizing data-driven decision making and product advocacy at all levels. They should also be a strong communicator comfortable with facilitating executive level, decision justification, and roadmap.

Here, you can work alongside talented engineers and product managers in an open, supportive, inclusive environment where your voice is valued, and you make your own decisions to drive forward Charles River for Private Markets' mission to accelerate transparency, accuracy, and liquidity in private markets.

What you will be responsible for

As Product Manager, Real Assets you will

• Be responsible for analyzing, enhancing and delivering all new real assets enhancements across internal teams, customers, and stakeholders.
• Work collaborative with existing real asset clients and account managers to represent the voice of the customer.
• Ensure individual features and products are aligned with business objectives.
• Lead client calls and workshops to collect and understand customer insights to drive product decisions.
• Prioritize, communicate, and support complex and conflicting opportunities and market needs.
• Engage with cross-functional heads to ensure alignment and orientation to product execution across the organization.
• Own the real assets front to back product roadmap communication to internal and external stakeholders.
• Work with product teams to ensure timely and complete requirements gathering, definition, deconstruction, and design.

What we value

• Highly driven, determined & business oriented.
• Highly polished executive presence and sophistication to gain credibility with the firm's most senior professionals and provide leadership, guidance, and direction to a team.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver on assigned responsibilities through commitment to quality and attention to detail.

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of real estate and/or infrastructure investment management background
• Enterprise SaaS experience is preferred
• Understanding of the private markets/alternative investment lifecycle from manager due diligence to investment monitoring and analytics & reporting
• Preferred background to include data management, data science, and / or artificial intelligence initiatives.
• Proven track record of delivering impactful product releases to an roadmap
• Ability to work as part of a global, distributed organization
• Progress towards CFA or CAIA is desirable
• Experience using JIRA or other agile development tools

Domain Knowledge

• Private Markets: a strong understanding of in private markets investing
• Financial Concepts: knowledge of financial modeling, valuation, and key performance indicators (KPIs) used in the private markets is important.
• Investment Process: familiarity with the investment process, including deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio management, can also be helpful.

Additional requirements

• Ability to travel as required for client engagements (-20%), including internationally

Salary Range

$80,000 - $140,000 Annual

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street's comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

Job Application Disclosure

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