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Head of Advisor Capabilities, Product Management, AWM
full-timeNorth Carolina, Malvern

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Location

North Carolina, Malvern

Type

full-time

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About this role

Vanguard’s Advice & Wealth Management (AWM) division is building next‑generation digital capabilities that transform how we deliver advice at scale. As the Head of Advisor Capabilities, you will shape the future front‑office experience—combining modern technology, client‑centric design, and deep advisor empathy to elevate how advisors, relationship managers, and service specialists deliver outcomes for millions of households.

You will oversee a product management organization responsible for reimagining the advisor and crew experience across daily workflows and complex planning needs. Your remit spans foundational container and data frameworks, CRM modernization, and hybrid collaboration tools—integrating design systems, multi‑entity data models, alerts and notifications, meeting and communication capabilities, workflow infrastructure, and third‑party technology. Your team will apply outside‑in thinking and modern product practices to build scalable, advisor‑centric platforms that unify documentation, cross‑divisional workflows, pipeline insights, and internal collaboration to support seamless, high‑quality client engagement.

What You’ll Do:

  • Define the vision and roadmap for a unified front‑office experience across internal systems and vendor platforms.
  • Build scalable capabilities leveraging agentic AI, supergraph architecture, eventing, householding logic, and advanced reporting.
  • Drive adoption and measurable improvements in advisor productivity, data quality, digital engagement, and time to advice.
  • Lead and develop a high‑performing product organization grounded in experimentation, excellence, and strong risk partnership.
  • Influence and collaborate across AWM, including Advice, Wealth Management, Digital & Analytics, Technology, and Controls & Enablement.

What It Takes:

  • Proven success transforming advisory front‑office experiences with advisors, relationship managers, and service teams.
  • Deep expertise in platform product management, including enterprise‑grade integrations (async, point‑to‑point, ETL, ESB) and vendor ecosystem management.
  • Technical fluency across cloud platforms (AWS), data architecture, eventing, supergraph/graph patterns, and applied AI/ML (RAG, agentic workflows).
  • A customer‑back mindset with the ability to deliver iterative value within a large enterprise.
  • Track record leading multi‑team product organizations and navigating business, technology, legal, risk, and compliance stakeholders.
  • Familiarity with advisory workflows, planning, householding, and CRM‑driven supervisory and documentation requirements.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.

Other facts

Tech stack
Product Management,Advisor Capabilities,Client-Centric Design,Data Architecture,CRM Modernization,AI/ML,Eventing,Workflow Infrastructure,Collaboration Tools,Enterprise Integrations,Advisory Workflows,Planning,Documentation Requirements,Risk Partnership,Team Leadership,Customer-Back Mindset

About Vanguard

We are a community of 50 million who think—and feel—differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests.

For over 50 years, Vanguard has helped people pursue their financial goals with a spotlight on long-term value and low costs. We’ve made it a focus to put investors first, so whether you’re saving for your first home or investing for a comfortable retirement, we’re here to help you succeed.

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Team size: 10,001+ employees
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Industry: Financial Services
Founding Year: 1975

What you'll do

  • Define the vision and roadmap for a unified front-office experience across internal systems and vendor platforms. Oversee a product management organization responsible for reimagining the advisor and crew experience across daily workflows and complex planning needs.

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As a Head of Advisor Capabilities, Product Management, AWM at Vanguard, you will: define the vision and roadmap for a unified front-office experience across internal systems and vendor platforms. Oversee a product management organization responsible for reimagining the advisor and crew experience across daily workflows and complex planning needs..

Why join Vanguard as a Head of Advisor Capabilities, Product Management, AWM?

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