Director, Strategy & Execution ETF & Index Investments

Invesco

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Downers Grove, IL - USA

profile Yearly Salary: $ 180000 - 250000
Posted on: 8 days ago
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Invesco

As one of the worlds leading independent global investment firms Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world. If youre looking for challenging work intelligent colleagues and exposure across a global footprint come explore your potential at Invesco.

Whats in it for you

Our people are at the very core of our success. Invesco employees get more out of life through our comprehensive compensation and benefit offerings including:

  • Flexible paid time off

  • Hybrid work schedule

  • 401(K) matching of 100% up to the first 6% with a discretionary supplemental contribution

  • Health & wellbeing benefits

  • Parental Leave benefits

  • Employee stock purchase plan

Job Description

The Role:

The Director Strategy & Execution is the senior executive responsible for turning global ETF strategy into disciplined scalable execution across regions platforms and functions. The role serves as the integrator and operatorinchief for the ETF & Index businessaligning a long-term vision to commercial priorities operating models technology governance KPIs benefits realization and continuous improvement with right talent to support growth resilience and longterm competitiveness. This leader operates at the intersection of strategy investment capabilities people and platform acting as the connective tissue across Investments Product Distribution Technology Operations Risk and Enterprise Architecture globally. This role is central to ensuring that Invescos ETF growth ambition is matched by execution capabilityreducing friction lowering operational risk and enabling leadership teams to focus on value creation rather than complexity management.

Responsibilities of the Role:

  • Translate global ETF strategy into executable operating plans across regions and functions.

  • Connect and lead a highperforming global ETF operating organization with clear role clarity accountability project and resource planning.

  • Enable commercial execution by ensuring operational and primary market readiness for:

    • Product launches conversions strategy and index transitions

    • Market and regional expansion

    • Internal and external partnership alignment to drive results.

  • Drive operating and commercial rhythm for key external partnerships including index providers support vendors exchanges custodians and service providers.

  • Represent the ETF business in commercial and enterprise forums focused on strategy risk and scalability.

  • Own and continuously evolve the global ETF operating model including:

    • Clear decision rights and accountability

    • Scalable standardized processes

    • Endtoend ownership from ideation through lifecycle management

  • Drive alignment between ETF business priorities and enterprise architecture to ensure platform support growth scale and regulatory requirements.

  • Lead delivery of critical ETF platform capabilities spanning trading portfolio management capital markets data onboarding and launch readiness inclusive of performance and market quality monitoring of key teams and providers.

  • Create governance framework and cadence to establish co-actioning on issues decisions and project logs and translate constraints into actions across product and distribution partnerships.

  • Own the ETF execution risk & control framework through engagement with investment support risk compliance audit ETF operations and fund administration touchpoints.

  • Lead incident response and playbooks for material operational events.

Requirements of the Role:

  • College graduate in related field or related work experience

  • 10 years relevant work experience in technical and leadership roles

  • MBA and/or CFA/CIMA preferred

  • Senior leadership experience in ETFs asset management or complex regulated financial services

  • Track record of leading global strategy execution in both commercial and operational growth

  • Experience partnering closely with Technology and Enterprise Architecture teams

  • Strong understanding of ETF operating lifecycles from product development through ongoing management and end client.

  • Experience operating in global multiregion environments

  • Highly executionoriented leader with strong strategic judgment

  • Proven change leader and communicator who aligns complex matrixed organizations

  • Commercially aware and operationally rigorous

  • Strong influencer without reliance on direct authority

  • Deep understanding of how technology operating models and people enable commercial outcomes

  • Adept at incident triage cross-functional coordination and risk management.

  • Calm under complexity; decisive under pressure

  • Trusted partner to senior leadership Boards and regulators

  • Builder of clarity accountability and momentum

  • Direct experience with investment ETF platforms capital markets or quantitative/indexbased investing preferred

  • Leadership of largescale technology data or infrastructure programs preferred

  • Comfort working across Investments Distribution and Technology organizations preferred

  • Familiarity with global ETF regulatory and market structures preferred

The total compensation offered for this position which includes salary and incentive pay will vary based on skills experience and location. The salary range for this position in Downers Grove is $180000 to $250000 annually.

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Worker Type

Employee

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Workplace Model

Pursuant to Invescos Workplace Policy employees are expected to comply with the firms most current workplace model which as of October 1 2025 includes spending at least four full days each week working in an Invesco office. This reflects our belief that spending time together in the office helps us build stronger relationships collaborate more easily and support each others growth and development.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The job holder may be required to perform other duties as deemed appropriate by their manager from time to time.

Invescos culture of inclusivity and its commitment to diversity in the workplace are demonstrated through our people practices. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race creed color religion sex gender gender identity sexual orientation marital status national origin citizenship status disability age or veteran status. Our equal opportunity employment efforts comply with all applicable U.S. state and federal laws governing non-discrimination in employment.


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