At MFS, you will find a culture that supports you in doing what you do best. Our employees work together to reach better outcomes, favoring the strongest idea over the strongest individual. We put people first and demonstrate care and compassion for our community and each other. Because what we do matters – to us as valued professionals and to the millions of people and institutions who rely on us to help them build more secure and prosperous futures.
THE ROLE
As Director, Product Management – Infrastructure, you will serve as the Chief Product Owner for Infrastructure, accountable for aligning strategy, execution, and delivery across the firm’s core technology platforms, environments, and services. This role operates at the intersection of business, product, and technology leadership, translating enterprise priorities into actionable roadmaps, coordinated execution, and measurable outcomes.
Acting as the connective tissue across teams, you will drive alignment, orchestrate dependencies, and create transparency into delivery. Balancing strategic leadership with disciplined execution, this role ensures infrastructure capabilities are delivered with speed, quality, and predictability, enabling the broader technology ecosystem to operate effectively at scale.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
Product Strategy Development
Support and define the vision and roadmap for infrastructure platforms in alignment with enterprise and technology strategy.
Translate strategic priorities into clear sequencing, roadmaps, and delivery plans, understanding tradeoffs and dependencies.
Maintain a forward-looking view on infrastructure capabilities, including cloud, platform engineering, and developer experience.
Drive Strategic Alignment & Stakeholder Influence
Act as the connective layer across business, product, and technology leadership, aligning on outcomes, priorities, and value delivery.
Influence senior stakeholders by aligning trade-offs and sequencing.
Establish lightweight governance approaches that enable clear prioritization and informed decision-making.
Infrastructure Orchestration & Dependency Management
Orchestrate delivery across platforms, environments, tooling, and dependencies to ensure infrastructure capabilities are delivered with strategic priorities.
Serve as the central integration point across infrastructure portfolios, programs, and workstreams, ensuring alignment on outcomes, commitments, and milestones.
Own cross-team dependencies, proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks to accelerate delivery and improve time-to-value.
Drive Execution Visibility & Continuous Improvement
Create transparency into delivery through roadmaps, status reporting, risks, and dependencies, providing a consistent view of execution.
Establish metrics to support delivery speed, quality, and predictability.
Continuously improve processes, operating models, and workflows to enhance execution outcomes.
Product Ownership, Agile Execution & Leadership
Work across teams to prioritize infrastructure product backlogs aligned to business value and strategic outcomes.
Partner with teams to define epics, stories, and acceptance criteria that enable high-quality delivery.
Collaborate across Product Owners and Agile teams to manage interdependencies and ensure coordinated execution.
Lead through influence in a global, matrixed organization, mentoring Product Owners and reinforcing strong product practices
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
12–15+ years of experience in enterprise technology, infrastructure, platform engineering, or large-scale environments.
Experience operating as a Product Owner or Product Leader accountable for complex, cross-functional delivery.
Strong understanding of infrastructure domains, including cloud platforms, environments, tooling, and platform engineering.
Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into execution, including roadmap and backlog ownership.
Experience coordinating complex, cross-functional technology initiatives.
Strong systems thinking and ability to navigate technical and organizational complexity.
Excellent communication skills.
Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders without formal authority.
Experience working within Agile frameworks across multiple teams.
PREFERRED SKILLS
Advanced degree (e.g., Master’s, MBA).
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or similar Agile certification.
Experience in financial services or highly regulated environments.
Familiarity with modern infrastructure practices, including cloud-native architectures, DevOps, and platform engineering models.
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Base Salary Range: $159,500.00 - $240,000.00 This position is eligible for competitive incentive bonus.At MFS, we believe in fair and transparent compensation. For that reason, we’re including the salary range for this position. This range reflects our good-faith expectation for what we’ll pay depending on the candidate’s experience, training and education. In addition to the salary, we also offer significant and competitive incentive compensation based on both individual and company performance. Other components of our Total Rewards Package include:
MFS contributes an amount equal to 15% of your base salary to your retirement account that is separate from the company -sponsored 401(k)
Education Assistance: MFS contributes $100 monthly up to $10,000 lifetime maximum directly to loan provider
Education Assistance: Tuition reimbursement up to $8,000 annually
Education Assistance: Access to discounted tutors and college coaches
Generous time off and fully paid leaves including 20-weeks for maternity, 12-weeks for parental and caregiver leaves
Choice of medical and dental plans and an and an employer contribution into the Health Savings Account
Tax deferred commuter benefits & flexible spending accounts (medical & dependent care)
Wellness Programs: Robust wellness webinars, employee assistance program with a focus on mental health, subsidized fitness benefit via Wellhub (formerly Gympass), where you can workout at gyms, studios and boutique fitness locations near you, join virtual personal training sessions and access a wide variety of well-being apps
Our compensation philosophy is to pay competitively for talent while ensuring equity across employees performing comparable work. We are committed to transparency – if you have questions about how we arrived at this range or what additional benefits and bonus opportunities come with the role, we’ll be happy to discuss them
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At MFS, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply - you might be just the right candidate for this role or others.
MFS is a hybrid work environment (remote/onsite) unless otherwise stated in the job posting.
If any applicant is unable to complete an application or respond to a job opening because of a disability, please contact MFS at 617-954-5000 or email [email protected] for assistance.
MFS is an Equal Opportunity Employer and it is our policy to not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state or local laws. Employees and applicants of MFS will not be subject to harassment on the basis of their status. Additionally, retaliation, including intimidation, threats, or coercion, because an employee or applicant has objected to discrimination, engaged or may engage in filing a complaint, assisted in a review, investigation, or hearing or have otherwise sought to obtain their legal rights under any Federal, State, or local EEO law is prohibited. Please see the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal document, linked for your reference.
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