Director- Investment Data Product Management at MFS in Boston

Director- Investment Data Product Management

Location: Boston

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THE ROLE

The Director, Product Management serves as the Chief Product Owner (CPO) for Investment Data, and is accountable for translating MFS’s investment data technology strategy into an integrated roadmap and executable portfolio of work.

The Enterprise Data Management Team’s purpose is to enable enhanced decision making, risk management and transparency by delivering dynamic, high-quality data and analytics to MFS employees and clients. Working as an integral part of the Enterprise Data Leadership Team, and in close partnership the broader technology organization and enterprise-wide business stakeholders, the Chief Product Owner plays a critical role in advancing broader data transformation, with a focus on ensuring that strategic investment data objectives are converted into clearly defined capabilities, priorities, and outcomes that teams can successfully deliver.

The CPO serves as the primary coordination and integration point across Investment Data technology, and the translation layer between strategy and business outcomes, platform capabilities, and coordinated delivery execution. The role requires the ability to take broad or ambiguous goals and give them structure by defining the desired end state, identifying the major blocks of work required to achieve it, decomposing those blocks, and sequencing them into a roadmap that delivers measurable value.

They must combine strong technical fluency and attention to detail with effective product leadership and strong teamwork skills, bringing clarity to business objectives, priorities, and desired outcomes while leading and developing a team of data product owners and fostering close collaboration across stakeholders and technology teams to shape effective solutions.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Product Strategy & Roadmapping

• Partner with the Head of Data to translate data strategy, priorities, and target capabilities into a clear multi-year roadmap.
• Take broad or ambiguous objectives and translate them into a structured path to the desired outcome, defining the major bodies of work, capabilities and epics, dependencies, sequencing, and measures of success required to deliver sustainable data products.
• Maintain a clear connection between strategic objectives, roadmap priorities, capacity constraints and executable work so product teams, delivery teams and stakeholders understand how individual initiatives contribute to broader business outcomes.
• Serve as the primary integration point for cross-functional Investment Data technology initiatives, aligning priorities, dependencies, and delivery efforts across teams to ensure coordinated execution and measurable outcomes.
• Ensure delivery initiatives reflect required governance obligations, data quality expectations, and stewardship responsibilities.

Stakeholder Partnership & Collaboration

• Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the enterprise to understand objectives, workflows, pain points, and emerging data needs.
• Translate stakeholder needs into clearly desired outcomes, requirements, and practical definitions of success, including what “done” means from the consumer’s perspective.
• Support adoption and evolution of data products by ensuring platform capabilities translate into usable outcomes and incorporating consumer feedback and usage into ongoing priorities.
• Maintain transparency and alignment across stakeholders, leadership, and the Enterprise Data Team through clear, proactive communication of roadmaps, priorities, dependencies, risks, and key decisions. Identify and escalate unresolved conflicts and material tradeoffs through appropriate leadership forums.

Product–Technology Partnership & Delivery

• Engage Tech Leads, architects, engineers, and analysts early in product discovery and planning to incorporate technical expertise, constraints, and opportunities into solution design.
• Foster strong partnership across product and delivery technology teams, balancing clear product direction with technical ownership, creativity, and accountability.
• Maintain strong agile and planning discipline while partnering across teams to deliver scalable, well-governed data products that help people and systems turn trusted data into timely insights, better decisions, and scalable automation.

Prioritization, Governance & Outcomes

• Own and maintain an integrated, sequenced roadmap across data products and capabilities, balancing enterprise data strategy and adjacent strategic priorities, incremental business requests, dependencies, delivery capacity, risk, and architectural considerations.
• Facilitate prioritization and tradeoff decisions with the Enterprise Data Leadership team and across cross-functional teams. Identify and surface gaps, overlaps, conflicts, and dependency risks that could affect successful execution.
• Define and track meaningful outcomes across the product lifecycle, including business impact, adoption, usability, data quality, reliability, timeliness, and operational efficiency.

Leadership, Communication & Team Effectiveness

• Communicate roadmaps, risks, dependencies, decisions, and progress clearly, concisely, and in a way that is tailored to senior leaders, business stakeholders, and technical teams.
• Lead with strong judgment and emotional intelligence, particularly when navigating ambiguity, changing priorities, delivery challenges, feedback, and strongly held viewpoints.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of data product owners, providing clear direction, regular feedback, and performance management while fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Foster a collaborative culture of shared accountability across Product, Data, Architecture, Engineering, and business teams.
  

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

Industry Experience & Education

• 15+ years of experience within asset management, financial services, or another data-intensive and highly regulated industry strongly preferred.
• Strong familiarity with investment management data, including security and issuer data, holdings, transactions, benchmarks, market data, performance, risk, analytics, and client data, is highly desirable.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required; advanced degree, CFA and/or relevant professional qualifications are desirable.

Product & Leadership Experience

• Significant experience leading data products, enterprise data platforms, or technology-enabled transformation in a complex organization.
• Strong product management and agile delivery experience, with demonstrated success operating across both strategic and execution levels.
• Demonstrated experience directly managing, coaching, and developing Product Owners, Product Managers, or similar professionals, including setting performance expectations, providing feedback, and building high-performing teams.

Data & Technology Fluency

• Strong technical fluency and demonstrated ability to develop deep subject-matter expertise in enterprise data platforms, models, and tools such as Snowflake, dbt, Microsoft Azure, or comparable technologies.
• Strong understanding of modern data engineering, governance, quality, lineage, APIs, analytics, and the requirements for making enterprise data trusted and usable for AI and advanced analytics.
• Familiarity with relevant governance, analytics, and delivery platforms.

Leadership & Partnership

• Proven ability to work effectively across business, Product, Data, Architecture, and Engineering, building alignment and influencing outcomes across organizational boundaries.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to simplify complex issues, navigate competing perspectives, and communicate decisions and tradeoffs clearly and concisely.
• High emotional intelligence, collaborative leadership style, and resilience in ambiguous or changing environments.
• Demonstrated ability to build trust, develop talent, delegate effectively, and create an environment where team members can exercise ownership, judgment, and accountability.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

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Base Salary Range: $159,500.00 - $240,000.00

This position is eligible for competitive incentive bonus. 



At MFS, we believe in fair and transparent compensation. For that reason, we’re including the salary range for this position. This range reflects our good-faith expectation for what we’ll pay depending on the candidate’s experience, training and education. In addition to the salary, we also offer significant and competitive incentive compensation based on both individual and company performance. Other components of our Total Rewards Package include:

• MFS contributes an amount equal to 15% of your base salary to your retirement account that is separate from the company -sponsored 401(k)

• Education Assistance: MFS contributes $100 monthly up to $10,000 lifetime maximum directly to loan provider

• Education Assistance: Tuition reimbursement up to $8,000 annually

• Education Assistance: Access to discounted tutors and college coaches

• Generous time off and fully paid leaves including 20-weeks for maternity, 12-weeks for parental and caregiver leaves

• Choice of medical and dental plans and an and an employer contribution into the Health Savings Account

• Tax deferred commuter benefits & flexible spending accounts (medical & dependent care)

• Wellness Programs: Robust wellness webinars, employee assistance program with a focus on mental health, subsidized fitness benefit via Wellhub (formerly Gympass), where you can workout at gyms, studios and boutique fitness locations near you, join virtual personal training sessions and access a wide variety of well-being apps

Our compensation philosophy is to pay competitively for talent while ensuring equity across employees performing comparable work. We are committed to transparency – if you have questions about how we arrived at this range or what additional benefits and bonus opportunities come with the role, we’ll be happy to discuss them

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