Vice President - Technical Program Manager

Your Team Responsibilities

This is an individual contributor role working across the breadth of technology, product, and coverage to enhance time to market for Index.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Corporate Events management project, a critical application used to maintain MSCI Equity indexes, manage client interfactions and generate specific data sets.
• Drive the proposed enhancements for the CETrack application, addressing the outdated technology used to build it and ensuring timely delivery of improvements.
• Develop and advocate for program vision, build the roadmap, and interact with customers for consultation and feedback.
• Work cross-functionally with research, engineering, design, and other stakeholders over the product or feature lifecycle, from ideation through launch and beyond.
• Define and drive the technical delivery roadmap of the CETrack application project.
• Build and manage partnerships with stakeholders across multiple organizations (engineering, shared services, product team, etc.), as well as external stakeholders, partners, and customers.
• Define and measure program feature success metrics to drive features with business value.
• Effectively communicate program plans, progress towards business goals, and delivery milestone status through reports, based on business objectives and strategy as identified initially.
• Build program collateral, requirements specification, user flow diagrams, and own & manage the program backlog.

Your skills and experience that will help you excel

• Bachelor’s Degree or above in computer science.
• Preferred 8+ years of experience, 5 years of which must be as a hands-on Technical Program Manager or in a similar leadership role building and launching cloud services, web applications, or platforms and delivering awesome user experiences.
• Have experience in starting from scratch to define and build the minimum viable product and iterate over time to launch and maintain a stable product line.
• Prior engineering development experience is highly preferred.
• Hands-on experience delivering financial, analytics, SaaS, or other cloud-native services on any cloud platform, e.g., Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Proven experience in owning and driving the ‘What & Why’, technical depth to influence the ‘How’, driving execution across globally matrixed teams, making reversible decisions, and critical trade-offs.
• Experience in defining success metrics & outcomes and making data-driven decisions to influence feature priorities.
• Strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills, specifically writing skills and formal presentation skills to engineers, leadership team, non-technical stakeholders, and customers.