Vice President, Alternatives Product Development

State Street

Vice President leading alternatives projects at State Street with focus on private markets and agile development. Collaborating globally to ensure successful project execution and compliance within the financial services sector.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeDublin • 🇮🇪 IrelandLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

SDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Drive as product owner or assigned role for agile development programs including organizing program, requirement definition, epic & story creation, status tracking, execution status meetings, issue escalation/resolution, and communicating status to internal and external stakeholders
Lead and/or perform the execution of specified Alternative development programs, including partnering with other members of the client facing, product, global delivery and technology teams.
Manage development plans, development execution, coordinate requirements gathering, translating and participating in the agile development process, testing and roll-out of capabilities
Facilitate program governance including compliance with policies, best practices, oversight of issues, risks, audit and compliance items in support of program reporting.
Participate in development of transition plan to migrate new capabilities into our operating model; and addressing the administrative aspects of establishing the product or service offering
Collaborate globally across business units to share approaches, develop best practices and improve the teams capabilities to successfully execute and deliver new capabilities or better serve clients.
Manage project status meetings, ensuring ability to communicate status to internal, senior management and external stakeholders, Maintain & produce complete and accurate reporting and updates for senior management and key stakeholders around issues, risks, progress, and accomplishments.
Effectively communicate, collaborate and develop relationships with diverse stakeholders with varied interests.
Support annual planning, funding & resourcing prioritization activities where required.
Understand the firm’s strategic plans, business, process and architecture and apply that knowledge in the solution design and development phases.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree on business, accounting or related field.
Minimum of 7-10 years of alternatives industry experience, specifically private markets
Working knowledge of SDLC, Jira, Clarity and other development related tools.
Knowledge of or experience leading programs related to the financial services industry is an advantage.
Experience interacting and presenting to senior management around status and strategy reporting.
Demonstrated success working closely with leadership across a large organization to drive successful outcomes would be an advantage.

Benefits

Comp & perks

inclusive development opportunities
flexible work-life support
paid volunteer days
vibrant employee networks

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Hard Skills & Tools

agile developmentrequirements gatheringprogram governanceSDLCstatus trackingtestingroll-outissue escalationcompliancereporting

Soft Skills

communicationcollaborationrelationship buildingleadershiporganizational skillsproblem-solvingstakeholder managementstrategic thinkingpresentation skillsteamwork