Vice President, Product Management - Governance & Voting Solutions

An industry-leading financial technology organization is seeking a senior product executive to lead the strategy, development, and commercialization of a suite of governance and voting-related solutions serving institutional investors, asset managers, and corporate clients.

This individual will own product direction and investment priorities while serving as a key voice of the customer across the organization. The successful candidate will combine deep domain expertise in shareholder governance, investment stewardship, and voting workflows with a proven ability to deliver innovative technology solutions that solve complex client challenges.

Working closely with senior leadership, technology, client-facing teams, and external stakeholders, this role will be responsible for defining long-term product strategy, driving execution, and ensuring the platform continues to evolve in line with market demands and regulatory developments.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute product strategy across a portfolio of governance, stewardship, and voting solutions.
• Establish product priorities and roadmap initiatives based on client needs, competitive dynamics, industry trends, and commercial opportunity.
• Lead products through the full lifecycle, from concept development and business case creation through implementation, launch, and ongoing enhancement.
• Partner closely with engineering and delivery teams to translate strategic objectives into actionable requirements and development priorities.
• Gather market intelligence through direct client engagement, industry research, user feedback, and emerging regulatory developments.
• Act as an internal subject matter expert for product capabilities, functionality, and future enhancements.
• Drive alignment across sales, client success, operations, technology, legal, compliance, and marketing teams.
• Develop business cases and value propositions that support product growth and market adoption.
• Oversee release planning, feature rollouts, and internal enablement efforts to ensure successful product launches.
• Support client meetings, strategic discussions, and industry events as a senior representative of the product organization.
• Manage and mentor product professionals while fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure solutions remain aligned with relevant regulatory frameworks, governance standards, and evolving market expectations.

Desired Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Technology, or a related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of product management experience within financial services, fintech, market infrastructure, investment technology, or related sectors.
• Strong understanding of investment stewardship, proxy voting, shareholder governance, corporate actions, or institutional investor workflows.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex products in highly regulated environments.
• Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels and drive cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed organization.
• Strong commercial mindset with experience balancing client needs, business objectives, and technical constraints.
• Excellent analytical and strategic thinking skills, including experience conducting market assessments and competitive analysis.
• Exceptional communication and presentation abilities, with a track record of engaging senior executives and external clients.
• Familiarity with Agile product development methodologies and modern software delivery practices.
• Proven history of launching new capabilities, improving product performance, and delivering measurable business impact.

Ideal Background

Candidates may come from product leadership roles within:

• Proxy voting and governance technology providers
• Investment stewardship platforms
• Asset servicing organizations
• Custody and securities services businesses
• Wealth and asset management technology firms
• Regulatory technology (RegTech) providers
• Institutional financial data and workflow platforms