Sr. Manager, Digital Portfolio and Program Strategy- Advisor Solutions
Your Opportunity
Your opportunity
At Schwab, you’re empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us challenge the status quo and transform the finance industry together. We believe in the importance of in-office collaboration and fully intend for the selected candidate for this role to work on site in the specified location(s).
- Lone Tree: 9800 Schwab Way, Lone Tree, CO 80124
- Orlando: 70 S. Keller Rd, Orlando, FL 32810
Schwab Advisor Services is building an integrated AI and third-party ecosystem organization focused on advancing Schwab-owned AI capabilities, enabling advisor choice through third-party partnerships and integrations, strengthening our data-enabled capabilities, and helping RIAs improve productivity, client service, and growth.
The Senior Manager, AI Portfolio and Program Strategy will translate strategic priorities into coordinated, measurable execution across Advisor Services and within the AI and Third-Party Ecosystem organization. This role will work across product, platform, technology, strategy, governance, data, marketing, portfolio management, and third-party ecosystem teams to ensure initiatives are well-defined, strategically aligned, portfolio-ready, and supported by clear outcomes, dependencies, and execution plans.
The role does not replace product or platform ownership and does not directly manage engineering delivery. It provides the strategic program leadership, portfolio discipline, cross-functional orchestration, and executive insight required to advance complex initiatives involving multiple accountable teams.
Key outcomes and responsibilities
Strategic Portfolio Leadership
- Translate AI and ecosystem strategy into prioritized initiatives, measurable outcomes, investment recommendations, and execution plans.
- Maintain visibility into portfolio health, resource requirements, risks, dependencies, and strategic alignment.
- Provide executive leaders with insights and recommendations that support prioritization and investment decisions.
Enterprise Program Leadership
- Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives spanning product, technology, data, operations, governance, marketing, and business stakeholders.
- Establish structure, accountability, milestones, and decision pathways while proactively managing dependencies and execution risks.
- Support launch readiness, adoption planning, and post-launch outcome evaluation.
Ecosystem & AI Enablement
- Evaluate and advance AI, fintech, and third-party ecosystem opportunities that strengthen advisor experiences and business outcomes.
- Coordinate planning across Schwab AI capabilities, external integrations, data assets, APIs, and emerging technologies.
- Identify capability gaps, partnership opportunities, and investment considerations for leadership review.
Performance & Value Realization
- Establish and monitor outcome-oriented measures that connect investments to advisor, operational, ecosystem, and business value.
- Develop performance insights that inform portfolio decisions and ensure continued alignment with strategic objectives.
Operating Model & Organizational Effectiveness
- Improve portfolio governance, intake, prioritization, reporting, and decision-management practices.
- Develop executive communications, planning materials, and organizational updates that create alignment and transparency across stakeholders.
- Foster knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and adoption of scalable program-management practices.
What you have
Required capabilities
- Significant experience leading complex, cross-functional programs within financial services, technology, digital products, strategy, or portfolio management.
- Proven success translating strategic direction into prioritized execution plans and evaluating business cases, resource needs, competing priorities, adoption, and measurable outcomes to inform leadership decisions and investment prioritization.
- Advanced program leadership skills, including scope and milestone planning, dependency and risk management, and the ability to influence accountable stakeholders across product, technology, data, operations, governance, marketing, and executive leadership while respecting established decision rights within a federated ownership model.
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with a track record of constructively challenging incomplete assumptions, synthesizing conflicting inputs, exercising sound judgment, and creating structure and momentum in ambiguous or rapidly evolving environments.
- Exceptional executive communication, storytelling, and presentation-development skills, including the ability to tailor communications across strategic, technical, operational, and executive audiences.
- Working knowledge of digital product development and technology delivery models.
- Demonstrated success designing or improving operating processes, governance models, or portfolio-management practices.
Preferred capabilities
- Knowledge of the RIA, custody, wealth-management, or advisor-technology ecosystem, including advisor workflows, firm operating models, and common technology categories.
- Background evaluating or implementing third-party fintech or technology partnerships, including consideration of compliance, privacy, legal, cybersecurity, procurement, model risk, and third-party risk requirements.
- Working knowledge of generative AI, agentic experiences, enterprise AI tools, APIs, MCP, data-access patterns, or AI governance.
- Success coordinating go-to-market activities, product launches, or partner-enabled offerings.
- Background in product strategy, management consulting, business strategy, or strategic operations, with exposure to enterprise portfolio planning, investment prioritization, and senior leadership governance.
- Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships across organizational boundaries, align diverse stakeholders, and advance enterprise priorities through influence rather than direct authority.
In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.
What’s in it for you
At Schwab, you’re empowered to shape your future. We champion your growth through meaningful work, continuous learning, and a culture of trust and collaboration—so you can build the skills to make a lasting impact. Our Hybrid Work and Flexibility approach balances our ongoing commitment to workplace flexibility, serving our clients, and our strong belief in the value of being together in person on a regular basis.
We offer a competitive benefits package that takes care of the whole you – both today and in the future:
- 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
- Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
- Paid parental leave and family building benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
What you are good at
What you have
Required capabilities
- Significant experience leading complex, cross-functional programs within financial services, technology, digital products, strategy, or portfolio management.
- Proven success translating strategic direction into prioritized execution plans and evaluating business cases, resource needs, competing priorities, adoption, and measurable outcomes to inform leadership decisions and investment prioritization.
- Advanced program leadership skills, including scope and milestone planning, dependency and risk management, and the ability to influence accountable stakeholders across product, technology, data, operations, governance, marketing, and executive leadership while respecting established decision rights within a federated ownership model.
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with a track record of constructively challenging incomplete assumptions, synthesizing conflicting inputs, exercising sound judgment, and creating structure and momentum in ambiguous or rapidly evolving environments.
- Exceptional executive communication, storytelling, and presentation-development skills, including the ability to tailor communications across strategic, technical, operational, and executive audiences.
- Working knowledge of digital product development and technology delivery models.
- Demonstrated success designing or improving operating processes, governance models, or portfolio-management practices.
Preferred capabilities
- Knowledge of the RIA, custody, wealth-management, or advisor-technology ecosystem, including advisor workflows, firm operating models, and common technology categories.
- Background evaluating or implementing third-party fintech or technology partnerships, including consideration of compliance, privacy, legal, cybersecurity, procurement, model risk, and third-party risk requirements.
- Working knowledge of generative AI, agentic experiences, enterprise AI tools, APIs, MCP, data-access patterns, or AI governance.
- Success coordinating go-to-market activities, product launches, or partner-enabled offerings.
- Background in product strategy, management consulting, business strategy, or strategic operations, with exposure to enterprise portfolio planning, investment prioritization, and senior leadership governance.
- Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships across organizational boundaries, align diverse stakeholders, and advance enterprise priorities through influence rather than direct authority.
In addition to the salary range, this role is also eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities.
Why Schwab?
At Schwab, “Own Your Tomorrow” embodies everything we do! We are committed to helping our employees unleash their potential and achieve their dreams. Our employees get to play a central role in disrupting a multi-trillion-dollar industry, creating a better, more modern way to build and manage wealth. We’re a modern financial services firm that stands apart from the industry, where you can go as far as your ambition takes you.
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