Product Director - Engineering Advisory

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Job Description

As a Product Director, you combine deep product leadership with strong handsâon engineering and AI architecture credibility to guide teams as an internal product, engineering, and agility consultancy. You work sideâbyâside with engineers to design, build, and evolve highâquality solutionsâleveraging modern software engineering practices and applied AI (including Claude Code and internal AI platform) to improve how value is designed, built, and delivered.

You act as a coach and technical leader, capable of going deep into code, architecture, and AIâassisted development workflows, while also aligning product, design, and delivery leaders on outcomes, tradeâoffs, feasibility, and longâterm sustainability.

Job Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the product and platform roadmap, vision, development, execution, risk management, and business growth targets, with a strong emphasis on engineering excellence and AIâenabled delivery.
• Lead the full product life cycleâfrom discovery through delivery and continuous improvementâby adapting approaches, developing new capabilities, managing risk, and balancing cost, features, reusability, reliability, and scalability.
• Serve as a handsâon technical and AI leader, working directly with engineers to:
• Architect solutions that effectively incorporate AI capabilities (e.g., Claude Code, internal LLMs).
• Establish best practices for AIâassisted development, code quality, testing, security, and maintainability.
• Ensure AI is used pragmatically to improve developer productivity and system outcomesânot as experimentation in isolation.
• Act as a coach for crossâfunctional teams, able to:
• Pair with engineers, review code, shape architectural decisions, and guide technical tradeâoffs.
• Align product, design, and delivery leaders on scope, sequencing, feasibility, and value realization.
• Coach engineering teams on modern engineering and AIâenabled practices, including:
• XP/TDD, automated testing, CI/CD, trunkâbased development.
• Pair/mob programming and AIâassisted coding workflows.
• Reducing technical debt while clearly demonstrating business and operational impact.
• Drive adoption and evolution of operating models across the PDLC/SDLC, embedding AIâenabled ways of working and enabling teams to continuously improve delivery, quality, and operational excellence through dataâdriven inspection and adaptation.
• Coach and mentor product teams on solution generation, discovery techniques, experimentation, prototyping, and product adoption strategiesâensuring strong collaboration between product and engineering in an AIâaugmented environment.
• Own product and platform performance, accountable for investing in enhancements that achieve business, technical, and operational objectives.
• Monitor market and technology trends, including AIâdriven development and platform capabilities, to identify opportunities for differentiation and stepâchange improvements in how products are built and delivered.
  

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• 10 years of experience delivering software products, platforms, or technology solutions, with significant handsâon engineering responsibility.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and coach engineers through direct technical engagement, combining:
• Deep product leadership
• Lean/Agile methodologies
• Modern engineering practices (XP, TDD, CI/CD, automation)
• Applied AIâassisted development (e.g., Claude Code or similar tools)
• Strong handsâon software engineering background, with the ability to:
• Read, write, and review production code.
• Shape system and solution architecture.
• Guide teams on pragmatic use of AI in real delivery contexts.
• Deep understanding of the product development life cycle, technical design, architecture, and data/telemetry, including how AI impacts these domains.
• Proven ability to influence and embed change across discovery, ideation, technical design, delivery, and value management in complex environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to operate effectively across engineering, product, design, risk, and leadership audiences.
  

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, And Skills

• Prior experience operating in a highly matrixed, complex enterprise environment.
• Fullâstack development experience, with exposure to modern cloudânative architectures.
• Experience establishing or scaling AIâenabled engineering platforms or internal developer tooling.
• Demonstrated success leading teams through architectural modernization or AIâdriven productivity transformations.
  
  

ABOUT US

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the worldâs most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicantsâ and employeesâ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans

About The Team

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that weâre setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.