Vice President, Product Manager, Equity Administration Platform

What you'll do

• Own the product roadmap and requirements for equity and purchase plan capabilities.
• Write clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and edge-case documentation for engineering teams.
• Partner with engineering on design decisions, trade-offs, and release scope during sprint planning.
• Translate administrator pain points from operations and compliance into specific product changes.
• Triage production issues by reproducing problems and prioritizing fixes based on client impact.
• Analyze backend data models for grants, transactions, vesting logic, and HRIS integrations.
• Support client demos, RFP responses, and release communications.
• Track competitor capabilities and provide findings to inform product prioritization.

What we're looking for

• 10–15 years of total experience.
• Minimum 5 years in equity compensation with hands-on work at a US equity administration platform.
• Working knowledge of plan types (RSU, RSA, option, ESPP, PSU) and their mechanics.
• Comfort reading data structures, tracing transactions end to end, and writing or reading SQL.
• Strong written communication skills for specs, defect writeups, and stakeholder updates.
• Proven ability to work in cross-functional agile teams.
• Engineering or technical background, including a degree or prior experience in software engineering, computer science, or IT (preferred).
• Experience with platform migrations, client implementations, global equity administration, or a financial services/fintech background (preferred).