AI Enablement Product Director, MD

Who we are looking for

The AI Enablement Product Owner will help advance AI-enabled capabilities across the Charles River Investment Management Solution and Alpha Data Platform, collectively the Alpha Platform. In this role, you will define, build, and scale AI capabilities that deliver measurable business outcomes. You will partner with existing product teams to apply AI capabilities and integration patterns that enhance our offerings through agentic and automation-driven assistants and functions. Ultimately, you will transform AI innovation into scalable, real-world impact embedded in investment management workflows.

To be successful, the AI Enablement Product Manager will serve as a hands-on product leader responsible for operationalizing AI as part of the Charles River suite of product offerings. The role combines strategic foresight with execution rigor, requiring close collaboration with engineering, and business teams to translate emerging AI capabilities into tangible, production-ready features. This individual will drive the lifecycle of AI initiatives, including use case discovery, model integration, workflow design, governance alignment, and performance measurement, ensuring that AI capabilities deliver consistent, measurable impact across both internal operations and client-facing solutions. This role

reports to the Global Head of AI at CRD.

Why this role is important to us

• Drives tangible value: Ensures AI investments across Charles River and Alpha translate into measurable outcomes-productivity gains, cost reduction, and differentiated client value.
• Bridges Innovation and Execution: Closes the gap between emerging AI capabilities and production-ready solutions embedded in investment management related workflows.
• Accelerates Time-to-Market: Alongside product and client facing teams, rapidly identifies and delivers high-impact AI use cases, keeping the firm competitive in a fast-moving landscape.
• Enables Scalable Adoption: Standardizes how AI is integrated, governed, and deployed across products-avoiding fragmented or one-off solutions.
• Strengthens Competitive Positioning: Positions the company as a leader in AI-enabled platforms, enhancing client retention and growth.

What you will be responsible for

Based in the greater Boston area, the role involves working closely with internal teams (R&D, client management, professional services, sales) and external stakeholders (clients and prospects) to ensure that platform functionality is augmented insofar as possible with agentic AI/ML capabilities - both as part of embedded components and via integration techniques (API, MCP, CLI).

• Define and execute the roadmap for AI enablement across products and workflows
• Identify high-impact use cases (automation, decision support, copilots) aligned to client and business priorities
• Partner with stakeholders (clients, product, engineering) to prioritize AI initiatives based on ROI and feasibility
• Become integral aspect in end-to-end delivery-from concept through deployment and adoption - as product teams leverage the toolsets you create to bring concepts to market
• Drive integration of LLMs, ML models, and AI services into core platforms and front-to-back workflows
• Ensure scalability, performance, and interoperability across systems
• Embed responsible AI practices (transparency, explainability, compliance)
• Partner with risk, legal, and compliance teams to establish guardrails
• Act as the bridge between data science, engineering, UX, and business teams
• Drive alignment across internal teams and external partners

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role:

• Experience in investment management, trading platforms, or financial data ecosystems
• Familiarity with AI governance, model risk management, and regulatory considerations
• Exposure to cloud-native AI services (Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, etc.)
• Experience building or scaling AI copilots or workflow automation tools
• Experience with MCP server frameworks and linking of agents
• Excellent organisation skills; ability to manage multiple complex tasks simultaneously and meet self-imposed deadlines in a dynamic environment.
• Foster relationships with senior market practitioners in large and small corporations.
• Superior oral and written communication and interpersonal skills.
• Able to differentiate and work at strategic and tactical levels simultaneously.
• Consultative presentation style to diverse and complex audiences

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• 7-10+ years in product management, preferably in fintech, enterprise SaaS, or data platforms
• Experience delivering AI/ML or data-driven products at scale
• Strong understanding of LLMs, copilots, and modern AI architectures (APIs, orchestration layers, vector DBs)
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value
• Proven track record of owning product roadmaps and delivering measurable outcomes
• Bachelors Degree from a leading university in Business Management, Economics, Finance, Computer Science

About State Street

What we do. State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation we’re making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we’ve been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.

Work, Live and Grow. We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary in locations, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans among other perks. You’ll have access to flexible Work Program to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.

Inclusion, Diversity and Social Responsibility. We truly believe our employees’ diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspective are a powerful contributor to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and reach their maximum potential while adding value to both our organization and our clients. We warmly welcome the candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality. Another fundamental value at State Street is active engagement with our communities around the world, both as a partner and a leader. You will have tools to help balance your professional and personal life, paid volunteer days, matching gift program and access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you.

State Street is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

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Salary Range:

The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

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About State Street

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.

We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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