at J.P. Morgan
Bulge Bracket Investment BanksPosted 12 days ago
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**Product Portfolio Operations Director** drives product strategy, ensuring customer value and business objectives are met. In this New York-based role, you'll lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products, maximizing customer engagement and profitability. Key responsibilities include: defining product vision, managing product ops for AI personalization, overseeing portfolio management, safeguarding delivery resilience, and enhancing product development life cycle processes. You'll bring 8+ years of experience in program management and product life cycle activities, along with data literacy and strong stakeholder management skills. Knowledge of Personalization and Recommendation systems, digital banking trends, and AI fairness considerations is beneficial. Manage and coach teams to achieve product initiatives using agile methodologies.
- Compensation
- Not specified
- City
- New York City
- Country
- United States
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Full Job Description
Location: New York, NY, United States
You are a proven leader with a passion for delivering high-quality products. Join our innovative team and help us ensure that our products meet and exceed the needs of our customers.
As a Product Portfolio Operations Director in Personalization & Customer Insights Team, you are an integral part of the team that innovates new product offerings and leads the end-to-end product life cycle. As a core leader, you are responsible for acting as the voice of the customer and developing profitable products that provide customer value. Utilizing your deep understanding of how to get a product off the ground, you guide the successful launch of products, gather crucial feedback, and ensure top-tier client experiences. With a strong commitment to scalability, resiliency, and stability, you collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products that exceed customer expectations. You will lead the data products and integrations that feed the operating memory for our agentic channel.
Your team curates secure, consented customer context and personalized signals that help the assistant understand intent and maintain continuitydelivered to the Channel/Interface team and to domain agents that take action on customers behalf. Lead the data products that power the operating memory for our new Chase agentic channelcurating secure, consented customer context and personalized signalswhile partnering with the Channel/Interface team and domain agents. Also drive MLpowered personalization and nextbestaction optimization across channels for marketing and servicing.
Job responsibilities
- Works across products and product lines to help ensure delivery against business objectives
- Executes the strategy for reporting and communications to support our portfolio management operations and change initiatives
- Oversees and coaches a team to best implement the strategy for adapting and executing the full product-line framework and ensures our core cross-product priorities, sequencing, and trade-offs are realized
- Implements portfolio-level tracking of controls, financials, resourcing needs, and key prioritization decisions
- Drives product strategy and vision that deliver measurable customer value.
- Leads Product Operations across direct and matrixed teams, ensuring consistent ways of working.
- Owns product and management reporting, providing clear, actionable insights to leaders.
- Defines, tracks, and improves KPIs and OKRs to measure outcomes and execution health.
Oversees risk, controls, and governance to ensure compliant, resilient delivery.
- Manages work intake, prioritization, and tracking to maintain transparency and delivery predictability.
- Runs product planning and execution cadence, aligning roadmaps, resourcing, and timelines.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 8+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in program management or performance optimization
- Proven ability to manage and implement operational effectiveness and portfolio management initiatives
- Proven ability to operate within the product development life cycle and agile methodologies
- Knowledge of product development life cycle, design, and data analytics
- Knowledge of product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management
- Proficient knowledge of the product development life cycle, including discovery, requirements definition, and backlog management (epics, user stories, refinement, PBR, JIRA).
- Strong data literacy and the ability to turn user research, journey insights, and product metrics into decisions and roadmaps that deliver on time, cost, and quality.
- Excellent people leadership and stakeholder management: mentoring product managers and influencing partners across Product, Design, Engineering, Marketing/Servicing, and business teams.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Demonstrated prior experience working in a highly matrixed, complex organization
- Knowledge of Personalization and Recommendation systems in production
- Degree in Engineering, Data Science, Business, or a comparable field of study.
- Knowledge of current digital banking trends and customer experience patterns, and familiarity with privacy, consent, and fairness considerations in AI.
