Executive Director - Technical Program Management

Your Team Responsibilities

This is an Individual Contributor (IC) role working across the breadth of technology, product, and coverage to enhance time to market for Index.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Focus on reshaping the foundation models of the Index business by enabling features and process to support diverse methodologies and allied systems eliminating the need for ad hoc solutions, reduce maintenance challenges, improve overall efficiency, and accelerate speed to market
• Develop and advocate for program vision, build the roadmap, and interact with customers for consultation and feedback.
• Work cross-functionally with research, engineering, design, and other stakeholders over the product or feature lifecycle, from ideation through launch and beyond.
• Define and drive the technical delivery roadmap of one or more strategic programs.
• Build and manage partnerships with stakeholders across multiple organizations (engineering, shared services, product team, etc.), as well as external stakeholders, partners, and customers.
• Define and measure program feature success metrics to drive features with business value.
• Effectively communicate program plans, progress towards business goals, and delivery milestone status through reports, based on business objectives and strategy as identified initially.
• Build program collateral, requirements specification, user flow diagrams, and own & manage the program backlog.
• Additional aspects of the role (depending on the focus) may include operations or business development or aligning multiple internal business or development team.

Your skills and experience that will help you excel

• Bachelor’s Degree or above in computer science.
• Preferred 12+ years of experience, 6 years of which must be as a hands-on Technical Program Manager building and launching cloud services, web applications, or platforms and delivering awesome user experiences.
• Have experience in starting from scratch to define and build the minimum viable product and iterate over time to launch and maintain a stable product line.
• Prior engineering development experience is highly preferred.
• Hands-on experience delivering financial, analytics, SaaS, or other cloud-native services on any cloud platform, e.g., Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Proven experience in owning and driving the ‘What & Why’, technical depth to influence the ‘How’, driving execution across globally matrixed teams, making reversible decisions, and critical trade-offs.
• Experience in defining success metrics & outcomes and making data-driven decisions to influence feature priorities.
• Strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills, specifically writing skills and formal presentation skills to engineers, leadership team, non-technical stakeholders, and customers.

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, 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 purpose – to power better investment 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 is a leading provider of critical decision support tools and services for the global investment community. With over 50 years of expertise in research, data, and technology, we power better investment decisions by enabling clients to understand and analyze key drivers of risk and return and confidently build more effective portfolios. We create industry-leading research-enhanced solutions that clients use to gain insight into and improve transparency across the investment process.

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