Director, IT Product Management Senior (People Leader)

Your Opportunity

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location.

Our Opportunity:

At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us “challenge the status quo” and transform the finance industry together.

Enterprise & Operational Risk Management (EORM) effectively identifies, measures, and manages risk across Charles Schwab and its affiliates to support the firm's strategic and business objectives. The Libraries, Applications, Data and Reporting (LADR) organization manages technology products, applications, data, reporting, and emerging capabilities that support Corporate Risk Management programs across the enterprise. Reporting to a Managing Director within LADR, this role will lead a team of Product Owners and technology professionals responsible for defining product strategy, delivering business value, enabling organizational transformation, and ensuring the successful execution of technology investments supporting risk management capabilities.

This position provides a high-visibility opportunity to influence product strategy, Agile adoption, AI enablement, operational resilience, and modernization efforts in a rapidly evolving business and regulatory environment. Adapted from the structure and language used in the LADR Manager and Managing Director job descriptions.

What you’ll do:

Product Leadership

• Own product strategy, vision, and outcomes for a portfolio of risk technology products.

• Partner with business leaders, technology teams, and stakeholders to define priorities and investment roadmaps.

• Establish product objectives, success measures, and delivery plans aligned to organizational goals.

• Balance business demand, technical debt, operational risk, and resource constraints to maximize product value.

• Drive adoption of Agile product management practices and continuous improvement.

Portfolio & Delivery Management

• Provide strategic oversight of product backlogs, roadmaps, dependencies, and delivery execution.

• Guide teams in translating business objectives into prioritized features, user stories, and measurable outcomes.

• Ensure products are delivered with appropriate quality, governance, security, and operational readiness.

• Drive transparency through portfolio reporting, roadmap communication, and risk escalation.

People Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop Product Owners, Product Managers, and related technology professionals.

• Build organizational capabilities aligned to future business and technology needs.

• Assess skill gaps and create development opportunities through coaching, stretch assignments, mentoring, and succession planning.

• Create a high-performing, inclusive environment focused on accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.

• Manage performance and talent planning while supporting employee engagement and retention.

Organizational Leadership

• Translate enterprise strategy into actionable priorities for teams.

• Lead through organizational change while maintaining clarity, alignment, and focus.

• Build strong partnerships across Corporate Risk Management, Technology, Data, Compliance, and Operations.

• Help shape future-state operating models, product management practices, and technology strategies.

This is a summary only and duties and responsibilities may be changed from time to time, or over time.

What you have

To ensure that we have fulfilled our promise of "challenging the status quo," this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

Required Qualifications

Business Competencies

• 10+ years experience in product management, technology strategy, software delivery, or related disciplines.

• Demonstrated experience leading teams and developing talent.

• Experience managing large-scale initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and dependencies.

• Strong communication, influence, and relationship management skills.

• Experience operating in Agile environments.

• Ability to balance strategic vision with execution discipline.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.

• Risk management, regulatory, financial services, or technology experience preferred.

• Based on qualifications used across current LADR leadership job descriptions.

Technical Competencies

• Product management and Agile delivery practices.

• Roadmap, backlog, and portfolio management.

• Requirements elicitation and prioritization.

• Technology modernization and digital transformation.

• Data-driven decision making and outcome measurement.

• Experience working with enterprise applications, reporting, workflow, analytics, or AI-enabled solutions preferred.

• Supported by Product Owner role guidance and existing LADR product management requisitions.

In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities