About the Role
This leadership role owns the Product organization's market-back evidence base and turns client, competitor, and ecosystem insight into clear, prioritized opportunities that inform product leadership and product teams on what to build, buy, or partner for. This role will serve as the connection between enterprise strategy and product execution, helping translate strategic priorities into actionable product opportunities while ensuring market realities inform strategic thinking.
Responsibilities
- Lead and scale Voice of Client: gather and synthesize insight from current clients and prospects into actionable recommendations.
- Own win/loss analysis from a product portfolio perspective: identify the factors that drive commercial outcomes and feed findings into roadmap and the commercial case.
- Track competitor capabilities and market positioning to identify where products lead or lag and help inform product priorities.
- Monitor fintech, data, and partner ecosystems for opportunities to strengthen existing products and identify emerging opportunities.
- Bring together strategic planning, client insight and market intelligence to identify and define product opportunities.
- Build the evidence base used to support, reshape, or stop potential product investments.
- Work hand in hand with product heads to identify key gaps in market and client insights that could drive the development of, and improvements to, product value propositions and roadmaps.
- Partner with strategic planning to translate strategic theses into product opportunities and provide market feedback to challenge and refine assumptions.
- Partner with the innovation function to identify long-term themes that may impact multi-year product portfolio strategy.
- Transition validated opportunities to Rapid Prototyping and Innovation and provide problem definitions to Product Design & CX.
- Establish and own the research standard for the Product organization.
- Partner with Product Operations to embed research practices across teams conducting ongoing insight and discovery work.
- Build and lead the Product Market Research function while increasing the impact and influence of market-backed insight across the organization.
Requirements
- Senior leadership experience in research, insights, or product strategy, with the credibility to influence senior stakeholders, Principals, and Partners.
- Proven track record of translating client, competitor, and ecosystem insight into decisions that changed what was built or prioritized.
- Strong ability to synthesize diverse information into clear, evidence-based recommendations and opportunity assessments.
- Experience with product discovery, opportunity sizing, and influencing outcomes across complex, matrixed organizations.
- Asset servicing or asset management experience strongly preferred.
Skills
- Market Research
- Product Strategy
- Client Insight
- Competitor Analysis
- Ecosystem Analysis
- Product Opportunity Development
- Strategic Planning
- Market Intelligence
- Product Portfolio Management
- Innovation
- Research Leadership
- Product Operations
- Product Design
- Customer Experience (CX)
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
Salary/Compensations
- $160K - $220K + annual target bonus
Benefits
- Long-term savings
- Healthcare
- Income protection
- Professional development opportunities
- Time off
About the Company
- Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a premier global financial services firm, known for premium service, specialist expertise, technology solutions and partnership approach to client management.
- Across Investor Services and Capital Partners, we work with an enviable roster of sophisticated clients who make BBH their first call when they are tackling their hardest challenges.
- Delivering for our clients and each other energizes us.
- We believe that how we do our work is just as important as what we do.
- We are relentless problem solvers who know our best ideas come from collective debate and development—so we are never possessive about our ideas.
- Every day we come together as a diverse community of smart and caring people to deliver exceptional service and expert advice—creating success that lasts.
- No matter where you sit in the organization, everyone is empowered to contribute their ideas.
- BBHers can pick up the phone and call any colleague, and they are happy to help.
- Expanding your impact beyond your daily role is part of how we operate as trusted partners to one another.
- We believe stability is a competitive advantage, but being stable means having the knowledge, skill, and discipline to evolve, often—pushing the boundaries of innovation.
- As a private partnership, every investment we make is in the relationships, technologies, products and development we believe are in the long-term interests of our clients and our people.
- Our long-tenured leaders are experts in their areas and are actively involved in the day- to day business, taking the time to provide guidance and mentoring to build the next generation of BBHers.
- Because we know, our success begins with yours.
- Go to BBH.com to learn more about our rewards and benefits, philanthropy, approach to sustainability or how we support you to thrive personally, physically and financially.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under federal, state or local law.
