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About the Role

LaSalle is establishing a new Product Development function to strategically design, evaluate, and bring investment products to market. This role will define a best-in-class product function, connecting investment strategy, market intelligence, and product execution to ensure successful product launches and capital raises.

Responsibilities

• Maintain knowledge of LaSalle’s product suite, competitor offerings, investor demand trends, and emerging product structures globally.
• Develop a systematic approach to idea generation, synthesizing input from various departments, and translate insights into actionable product concepts.
• Build and maintain a prioritized product pipeline, ensuring alignment with firmwide strategic objectives and the Three Councils governance framework.
• Lead structured product scoring and evaluation, assessing market viability, strategic fit, and commercial potential for new concepts.
• Act as the connector between Investment Management, IR, Research, Marketing, Legal, and Finance throughout the product lifecycle.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for new product ideas across the firm, ensuring all relevant stakeholders are engaged.
• Partner with regional COOs and business line heads to surface product development needs and ensure global coordination.
• Shepherd new product ideas through LaSalle’s governance process, coordinating across departments for timely submissions.
• Own the product development project plan once a concept receives initial approval, tracking milestones, managing work-streams, and escalating risks.
• Partner with Global Funds Counsel and Tax on fund structuring decisions, ensuring go-to-market and operational readiness.
• Drive structured life-cycle reviews to evaluate existing products' strategic relevance and positioning.
• Conduct strategic wind-down assessments of products approaching end-of-life.
• Partner with IR and Global Marketing on the fund narrative framework, defining the core investment thesis, differentiated positioning, and key messages.
• Define go-to-market readiness criteria for each new product, ensuring fund structure, investor eligibility, fee terms, and regulatory approvals are resolved.
• Maintain an active feedback loop with IR throughout the capital-raising period, incorporating investor and consultant input.
• Coordinate compliance and legal review of all marketing collateral and oversee quality control processes.
• Support IR Project Managers in capital raising, partnering with IR on investor diligence, messaging, and ongoing feedback loops.

Requirements

• 8–12+ years of experience in institutional investment management, investment banking, or a closely adjacent field.
• Direct experience in product strategy, product development, or fund marketing strongly preferred.
• Track record of developing or launching institutional financial products, including demonstrated ownership of complex, cross-functional workstreams.
• Exceptional ability to translate investment strategy into compelling, investor-ready narratives.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience operating in matrix organizations and managing stakeholder-intensive processes requiring alignment across multiple senior leaders.
• Familiarity with real estate investment structures, institutional fundraising dynamics, and the fund formation process.
• High financial acumen, including ability to evaluate fund economics, profitability models, and fee structures.
• Strong project management skills and follow-through.
• Comfort with ambiguity in a build-out phase.
• Collaborative, intellectually curious, and direct; able to challenge and be challenged constructively.
• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Skills

• Product Strategy
• Product Development
• Fund Marketing
• Investment Strategy Translation
• Written Communication
• Verbal Communication
• Matrix Organization Navigation
• Stakeholder Management
• Real Estate Investment Structures
• Institutional Fundraising Dynamics
• Fund Formation Process
• Financial Acumen
• Project Management

Location

• On-site – London, GBR

Work Type

• On-site

Experience Level

• 8-12+ years

About the Company

• LaSalle is establishing a new, dedicated Product Development function to bring discipline and strategic focus to how we design, evaluate, and bring investment products to market.
• LaSalle's 2030 strategy makes new product innovation a central priority for the first time.
• Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading global provider of real estate and investment management services.

Equal Opportunity

• Jones Lang LaSalle (“JLL”) is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.
• Pursuant to the Arizona Civil Rights Act, criminal convictions are not an absolute bar to employment.
• Pursuant to Illinois Law, applicants are not obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest.
• Pursuant to Columbia, SC ordinance, this position is subject to a background check for any convictions directly related to its duties and responsibilities. Only job-related convictions will be considered and will not automatically disqualify the candidate.
• If you are a California resident as defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) please view our Supplemental Privacy Statement which describes your rights and disclosures about your personal information.
• Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, JLL will consider for employment all qualified Applicants, including those with Criminal Histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
• Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.