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You’ll help build the frameworks, governance, and operating rhythms that turn strategic priorities into action-enabling teams to move faster, make better decisions, and deliver with greater clarity and accountability.\nThis role can be based in either Mexico City or Monterrey, offering candidates the flexibility to join our team from either of MSCI’s Mexico locations.\nWhat makes this opportunity exciting?\nYou won’t simply step into an established operating model, you’ll have the opportunity to help shape and improve it.\nWorking closely with leaders and teams across Product, Engineering, Program Management, Finance, Marketing, Coverage, and Business Technology, you’ll connect the dots across the organization and help create a more scalable, transparent, and effective way of working.\nYour work will help:\nTurn strategy into execution by creating structure around key priorities and initiatives.\n\nBuild scalable operating frameworks that support the continued growth of the Private Assets business.\n\nStrengthen governance and decision-making across complex, cross-functional programs.\n\nCreate greater visibility for senior leadership into priorities, progress, risks, and dependencies.\n\nImprove how teams work together, removing friction and driving stronger execution from idea through delivery.\n\nWho will thrive in this role?\nThis opportunity is ideal for someone who enjoys operating at the center of a fast-moving business-someone who can bring structure to ambiguity, connect strategy with execution, and influence across teams and senior stakeholders.\nIf you’re energized by building better ways of working, solving complex operational challenges, and seeing your work translate directly into business impact, this is an opportunity to make your mark on one of MSCI’s most strategic growth areas.\nhttps://careers.msci.com/life-at-msci\nYour Key Responsibilities\nWhat You’ll Do\nIn this role, you’ll sit at the heart of the Private Assets Product organization, helping translate strategy into execution and creating the operating discipline that enables teams to move faster and scale effectively.\nYou’ll have the opportunity to shape how Product teams work, not just maintain existing processes.\nShape the Product Operating Model\nTake ownership of the operating framework that brings structure, clarity, and accountability to the Product organization.\nYou’ll:\nOwn and evolve the Product operating model, governance framework, and execution standards as the business grows.\n\nEstablish clear and practical governance, stage gates, and decision-making processes that help teams move efficiently from idea to execution.\n\nIdentify opportunities to simplify how we work, eliminate unnecessary friction, and improve collaboration across teams.\n\nBuild scalable processes that can support an increasingly complex and growing Private Assets portfolio.\n\nTurn Strategy into Execution\nCreate the visibility and execution discipline that help Product leaders make better decisions and teams deliver against their priorities.\nYou’ll:\nHelp ensure strategic roadmap initiatives are clearly defined, prioritized, and connected to business outcomes from ideation through delivery.\n\nPartner with Product leaders to strengthen portfolio planning and improve the quality and consistency of information used to make decisions.\n\nDrive effective use of Jira Product Discovery and Jira, ensuring workflows and data provide meaningful insight-not simply reporting for reporting’s sake.\n\nGive leadership a clear view of roadmap progress, dependencies, risks, and overall execution health.\n\nStrengthen the Journey from Idea to Client Impact\nHelp build a best-in-class product lifecycle that turns promising ideas into valuable solutions for our clients.\nYou’ll:\nBring greater rigor to early-stage product ideas by ensuring they have a clear problem to solve, defined customer value, business ownership, and commercial rationale.\n\nEnable effective governance forums through thoughtful preparation, clear decision documentation, and disciplined follow-through.\n\nConnect information across the portfolio so leaders can quickly understand what matters, what’s moving, and where attention is needed.\n\nHelp teams navigate the journey from ideation through development and delivery with greater clarity and accountability.\n\nBuild for Scale\nAs the Private Assets organization grows, you’ll help ensure our processes, knowledge, and best practices grow with it.\nYou’ll:\nCreate practical playbooks, SOPs, governance standards, and operating guides that make it easier for teams to work consistently and effectively.\n\nDevelop onboarding and enablement materials for Product and Program Management teams.\n\nLead training on operating model governance, tools, processes, and execution best practices.\n\nBuild a culture of knowledge sharing and operational excellence across a global organization.\n\nMake the Organization Better\nWe’re looking for someone who won’t simply follow the process-you’ll help us continuously improve it.\nYou’ll:\nIdentify opportunities to improve dashboards, reporting, tooling, workflows, and ways of working.\n\nBring the right teams together to solve operational challenges and implement improvements.\n\nTake improvement initiatives from idea through implementation, measuring their impact and driving sustained adoption.\n\nChallenge complexity and look for smarter, simpler ways to help teams execute.\n\nWhy This Role Matters\nPrivate Assets is an important growth area for MSCI, and scaling successfully requires more than great products, it requires a strong operating foundation behind them. Your work will help create that foundation.\nYou’ll have the opportunity to influence how a growing Product organization operates, improve how strategic decisions are made, and build capabilities that will scale with the business.\nIf you enjoy bringing clarity to complexity, connecting strategy with execution, and building better ways for high-performing teams to work together, this role offers the opportunity to make a meaningful and lasting impact on MSCI’s Private Assets business.\nYour skills and experience that will help you excel\nWhat We’re Looking For\nWe’re looking for a highly organized, analytical and proactive problem-solver who enjoys bringing structure to complexity and making things work better.\nYou don’t need to have done everything on this list before. We’re interested in people who combine strong execution skills with curiosity, sound judgment, and a willingness to learn and who are excited by the opportunity to help shape how a growing global business operates.\nYou’ll Bring\n5+ years of relevant professional experience in areas such as Product Operations, Product Management, Program Management, Business Operations, Management Consulting, Financial Services, or a related field.\n\nA Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Actuarial Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or another relevant discipline.\n\nExperience working with Jira, Jira Product Discovery (JPD), or similar product and workflow management tools. Experience improving governance, workflows, or data quality within these platforms is a plus.\n\nA strong instinct for process improvement you can look at how something works today, identify what could be better, and help turn improvements into practical, scalable solutions.\n\nExcellent organizational and coordination skills, with the ability to connect the dots, manage competing priorities, and keep important initiatives moving forward.\n\nStrong interpersonal skills and the ability to build trusted relationships across functions and levels of seniority.\n\nA track record of getting things done through others -bringing teams together, following through on commitments, and creating accountability without relying on formal authority.\n\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience working with dashboards, reporting, or business intelligence tools.\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills in English, with the ability to turn complex information into clear, concise, and actionable insights.\n\nAn interest in private markets, investment solutions, financial data, and institutional investing. Deep expertise isn’t required, but curiosity and a desire to learn are important.\n\nA growth mindset and continuous-improvement mentality. You’re comfortable asking “Why do we do it this way?” and helping find a better answer.\n\nWhat Will Help You Stand Out\nYou’ll be particularly successful in this role if you’re someone who can move comfortably between the big picture and the details. You can understand what leadership is trying to achieve, translate that into practical actions, and work across teams to make it happen.\nYou’re comfortable with ambiguity, naturally look for ways to create clarity and structure, and don’t wait for someone else to identify what needs to be improved. Most importantly, you’re excited by the opportunity to build, not just maintain the processes and capabilities that help a growing business scale.\nAbout MSCI\nWhat we offer you\nTransparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits, tailored to your location, ensuring your financial security, health, and overall wellbeing.\nFlexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces.\nA culture of high performance and innovation where we experiment with new ideas and take responsibility for achieving results.\nA global network of talented colleagues, who inspire, support, and share their expertise to innovate and deliver for our clients.\nGlobal Orientation program to kickstart your journey, followed by access to our Learning@MSCI platform, AI Learning Center , LinkedIn Learning Pro and tailored learning opportunities for ongoing skills development.\nMulti-directional career paths that offer professional growth and development through new challenges, internal mobility and expanded roles.\nWe actively nurture an environment that builds a sense of inclusion belonging and connection, including eight Employee Resource Groups. All Abilities, Asian Support Network, Black Leadership Network, Climate Action Network, Hola! MSCI, Pride & Allies, Women in Tech, and Women’s Leadership Forum.\nAt MSCI we are passionate about what we do, and we are inspired by our vision - to power better decisions. You’ll be part of an industry-leading network of creative, curious, and entrepreneurial pioneers. This is a space where you can challenge yourself, set new standards and perform beyond expectations for yourself, our clients, and our industry.\nMSCI strengthens global markets by connecting participants across the financial ecosystem with a common language. Our research-based data, analytics and indexes, supported by advanced technology, set standards for global investors and help our clients understand risks and opportunities so they can make better decisions and unlock innovation. We serve asset managers and owners, private-market sponsors and investors, hedge funds, wealth managers, banks, insurers and corporates.\nMSCI Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. 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