Product Manager, Total Portfolio Solutions

MSCI is seeking an entrepreneurial Product Manager to help shape Total Portfolio Solutions, an integrated portfolio management technology platform for asset owners. In this role, you will partner with clients and internal teams to define the product strategy and roadmap, delivering capabilities that support how institutions measure performance, manage risk, analyze portfolios, and produce reporting and analytics across public and private markets.

Role overview

Total Portfolio Solutions is focused on enabling investors to build and manage public and private market portfolios through a single, integrated platform. The platform supports core investment capabilities including performance measurement, risk management, attribution, asset allocation, portfolio construction, exposure analysis, reporting, and related analytics.

What you will do

• Work directly with asset owners and institutional investors to understand their portfolio construction, performance, risk, attribution, asset allocation, reporting, and governance needs across public and private markets.
• Define and evolve Total Portfolio Solutions product strategy, vision, roadmap, and priorities with close partnership across clients and internal stakeholders.
• Conduct market analysis across client needs, investment industry trends, competitive offerings, technology developments, and evolving portfolio practices.
• Translate client feedback and market insights into product concepts, business cases, requirements, prototypes, and prioritized initiatives.
• Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle from discovery and ideation through development, launch, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Engineering, Data, Research, Implementation, Sales, and other teams to design and deliver scalable solutions.
• Make product tradeoffs across client value, commercial opportunity, technical feasibility, speed to market, and long-term platform strategy.
• Participate in product governance and prioritization forums, communicating investment cases, dependencies, risks, and expected outcomes.
• Monitor development progress, remove obstacles, and maintain accountability for high-quality products and client experiences.
• Develop go-to-market plans for new products and features, including positioning, packaging, pricing, sales enablement, training, and client communications.
• Support product releases and launches with materials for client-facing teams, including user acceptance testing, documentation, demonstrations, FAQs, pitchbooks, and fact sheets.
• Collaborate with Sales and Client Success to understand market reception and improve positioning, adoption, and product-market fit.
• Track product performance through adoption, engagement, client satisfaction, revenue, retention, and profitability metrics.
• Identify opportunities for strategic partnerships and integrations to strengthen the Total Portfolio Solutions platform.
• Act as a visible product leader and advocate for Total Portfolio Solutions internally and with clients.

What you bring

• Significant experience in product management, investment technology, portfolio analytics, or financial data solutions.
• Deep understanding of institutional asset owners and their investment processes across public and private markets.
• Strong knowledge of portfolio management capabilities, including performance, risk, attribution, asset allocation, portfolio construction, exposure analysis, and investment reporting.
• Experience working with pensions, endowments, foundations, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, outsourced chief investment offices, or other institutional investors.
• Proven track record working directly with clients to shape product strategy, define requirements, and deliver solutions.
• Experience managing products through the full lifecycle, from concept and client validation through launch, commercialization, and ongoing enhancement.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives in a matrixed organization.
• Strong commercial orientation, connecting product decisions to revenue growth, client value, adoption, and profitability.
• Experience delivering projects or solutions from pitch through implementation.
• Track record building trusted relationships with senior investment, technology, and operations stakeholders.
• Experience operating in entrepreneurial, high-growth, or evolving environments.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with high agency and willingness to take ownership beyond formal responsibilities.
• Ability to create clarity and momentum in ambiguous or rapidly changing situations.
• Strong client orientation and judgment to distinguish individual requests from scalable product opportunities.
• Strategic thinker comfortable defining long-term vision and working through execution details.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills to evaluate complex investment and technology problems.
• Excellent communication, presentation, influencing, and storytelling skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong collaboration skills to motivate teams that do not report directly to the role.
• Creative, pragmatic, and persistent approach to problem-solving.
• Demonstrated ability to build alignment among clients, executives, and cross-functional partners.
• Commercially minded leader with strong understanding of pricing, packaging, competitive positioning, and go-to-market strategy.
• 3-5 years of relevant experience in product management, investment technology, portfolio analytics, financial data, consulting, or a related field.
• Collaborative team player who enjoys making hands-on contributions and building something new.

Location and compensation

• Location: New York, NY (onsite)
• Salary range: USD 152,000 - 198,000 per year
• Minimum experience: 3 years
• Bonus: Eligible for an annual bonus

Benefits

• Transparent compensation schemes and comprehensive employee benefits tailored to your location.
• Flexible working arrangements, advanced technology, and collaborative workspaces.
• A culture of high performance and innovation with responsibility for achieving results.
• A global network of colleagues who inspire, support, and share expertise to deliver for clients.
• Global Orientation program, access to Learning@MSCI, AI Learning Center, LinkedIn Learning Pro, and tailored learning opportunities.
• Multi-directional career paths with internal mobility and expanded roles.
• Inclusion and belonging supported through 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.

About MSCI

MSCI strengthens global markets by connecting participants across the financial ecosystem with a common language. Its research-based data, analytics, and indexes, supported by advanced technology, set standards for global investors and help clients understand risks and opportunities so they can make better decisions and unlock innovation. MSCI serves asset managers and owners, private-market sponsors and investors, hedge funds, wealth managers, banks, insurers, and corporates.

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