SBL: Collateral/ self directed Digital LAL, Platforms, Director, Wealth Management

About Us:

Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. In addition, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is one of the world's largest networks of Financial Advisors.

The Wealth Management Platforms organization manages digital platforms and experiences across the Advisor, Workplace and Direct channels, ensuring that our capabilities lead the industry and are delivered and integrated seamlessly. Within the Wealth Management Platforms Organization, Digital Lending Platform Team is responsible for building an industry-leading, highly automated lending platform supporting the next phase of growth of Securities Based Lending, Tailored Lending and Mortgage Businesses.

We are hiring a talented product manager to help us build an industry-leading, highly automated lending platform to have a direct impact on Morgan Stanley U.S. Banks' growth strategy. This is a highly collaborative role, where you will work closely with our team of digital product managers and partner with engineers, designers, operations, credit, finance, and business stakeholders to transform the experience for all our customers

• Work in a fun, fast paced environment designing new and improved technology for our clients and internal staff
• Design innovative new products with market leading competitive advantages that revolutionize the way people manage and spend their money
• Work with technology, business, and control partners to define and write requirements
• Engage in end user research, and use data analysis to inform requirements writing, and wireframe design of new products
• Present findings and project updates to executive leadership and key stakeholders
• Lead Agile product management teams, collaborating with design, research, technology, legal and compliance team and driving decision making across cross-functional group is preferred.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including legal, compliance, risk, technology and operations to enhance processes and streamline lending product related workflows
• Diagnose and resolve any technical issues or system errors that may arise within the lending platforms

• 6+ years of professional experience in technology product management and design
• 5+ years of professional experience in the wealth management, retail banking, and/or consumer financial technology
• 5+ years of experience of building and scaling complex data platform
• Working knowledge of financial lending products
• Experience with software business analysis
• BE/B.tech/MCA required

• Excellent communicator with solid written and verbal presentation skills
• Professional experience in consumer technology, banking, wealth management and /or top tier consulting firm
• Strong attention to detail in both technical and non-technical capacity
• Focus on usability and eye for design
• Excellent relationship building capabilities with partners both internal and external to the organization
• Independent initiative and comfort working in a fast-paced environment
• Strategic thinker able to define and evaluate alternatives, and translate goals into specific project tasks
• Highly developed sense of ownership and accountability for work
• Ability to adapt to change and evolving business needs
• Ability to measure a given business problem to both quantify the issue and the benefits from the technology solution