Vice President, Emerging Risk & Thematic Investments - Product Management

Your Team Responsibilities

You will sit alongside MSCI’s Sustainability & Climate Product organization, working as part of a growing, cross-functional team focused on building MSCI’s Emerging Risk capabilities.

The product team is responsible for developing data and analytics products to help investors make better investment decisions across markets and asset classes. In this role, you will:

• Work collaboratively with Product, Research, R&D, Technology, and Commercial stakeholders to help bring emerging risk capabilities to market.
• Contribute to a centrally coordinated effort to ensure emerging risk initiatives are aligned, reusable, and integrated across MSCI.
• Be part of a highly visible initiative with strong senior sponsorship, while operating within a supportive, team-based execution model.

This role is designed to have meaningful impact while leveraging shared ownership, leadership guidance, and cross-team collaboration.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Product Development:
  Partner with R&D and product stakeholders on the development of new product sets and ongoing product enhancements. Support the creation of business cases, revenue estimates, and ROI analyses for new initiatives; contribute to mockups and product scoping documents; assist with project coordination and prioritization; and work closely with IT, Data Operations, and Research teams to support successful project delivery.

• Cross-Functional Coordination:
  Help coordinate work across multiple parallel workstreams, including strategy, data and models, technology, and client validation. Support alignment across Research, Index, Analytics, Private Assets, and Technology teams to reduce duplication, enable reuse, and promote consistent execution.

• Product Delivery and Enablement:
  Support product readiness activities such as documentation, internal alignment, and collaboration with Commercial and Client Coverage teams. Partner with Marketing to translate emerging risk capabilities into clear client use cases and value propositions, and to support go-to-market planning.

• Support the Client Coverage Organization:
  Support MSCI’s client-facing teams by responding to questions related to product features, functionality, pricing, and licensing. Contribute to user guides and documentation, assist with RFP responses and client communications, and help organize training sessions for Coverage teams as needed.

• Strategy Support and Business Reporting:
  Contribute to strategy development and business reporting, including the preparation of clear, concise presentations for senior leadership on key initiatives, metrics, and business trends.

Your skills and experience that will help you excel

We are looking for candidates who are excited by emerging topics, building products, leveraging AI capabilities and comfortable working in evolving problem spaces.

Helpful experience includes:

• Experience in product management, research, strategy, data, or analytics roles within financial services, sustainability, risk, or adjacent domains.
• Strong analytical skills, with experience working with complex or unstructured data and translating it into structured insights.
• Interest in emerging risks and structural change (e.g., technology disruption, geopolitics, climate, supply chains), even if depth is in one specific area.
• Experience working in cross-functional, matrixed environments, partnering with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to contribute to presentations, documentation, and structured problem-solving.
• An execution-oriented mindset, with comfort operating in areas that are still being defined and iterated.

Experience with AI, advanced analytics, or graph-based data structures is a plus, but not required. Curiosity, learning agility, and strong fundamentals are more important than prior specialization.

About MSCI

What we offer you

• Transparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location, ensuring your financial security, health, and overall wellbeing.

• Flexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces.

• A culture of high performance and innovation where we experiment with new ideas and take responsibility for achieving results.

• A global network of talented colleagues, who inspire, support, and share their expertise to innovate and deliver for our clients.

• Global Orientation program to kickstart your journey, followed by access to our Learning@MSCI platform, AI Learning Center , LinkedIn Learning Pro and tailored learning opportunities for ongoing skills development.

• Multi-directional career paths that offer professional growth and development through new challenges, internal mobility and expanded roles.

• We actively nurture an environment that builds a sense of inclusion belonging and connection, including eight Employee Resource Groups. All Abilities, Asian Support Network, Black Leadership Network, Climate Action Network, Hola! MSCI, Pride & Allies, Women in Tech, and Women’s Leadership Forum.

At MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our vision – to power better decisions. You’ll be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry.

MSCI strengthens global markets by connecting participants across the financial ecosystem with a common language. Our research-based data, analytics and indexes, supported by advanced technology, set standards for global investors and help our clients understand risks and opportunities so they can make better decisions and unlock innovation. We serve asset managers and owners, private-market sponsors and investors, hedge funds, wealth managers, banks, insurers and corporates.

MSCI Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of the firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy (including unlawful discrimination on the basis of a legally protected parental leave), veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. MSCI is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please email Disability.Assistance@msci.com and indicate the specifics of the assistance needed. Please note, this e-mail is intended only for individuals who are requesting a reasonable workplace accommodation; it is not intended for other inquiries.

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