Lending Platform Strategy & Execution Lead - AI, Data & Digital Assets, Executive Director

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Department Overview

In the Wealth Management division, we help people, businesses and institutions build, preserve, and manage wealth so they can pursue their financial goals

Wealth Management (WM) Platforms manages industry-leading platforms, across all WM channels and client segments, to provide a unified digital experience, unlock growth, and deliver efficiencies for Advisors, Clients, and Institutions. WM Platforms consists of ten sub-teams including: Field Experience & Platforms, Digital Client Experience & Platforms, Workplace Platforms, Automation & Workflow, Digital Trading & Investing, Generative AI, UX Design & Research, Strategy & Execution, WM Platforms Risk, and the Chief Operating Office.

What you'll do in the role:

• Define and execute platform strategy across AI, Data, and Digital Assets across the lending ecosystem

• Lead delivery of scalable data and AI capabilities supporting lending workflows

• Drive GenAI/ML use cases across sales & marketing, origination, underwriting, servicing, and client/advisor engagement

• Establish modern data infrastructure, governance, and analytics capabilities

• Lead cross-functional execution across product, engineering, risk, and business teams

• Shape and deliver roadmap for digital asset-backed lending capabilities

Why this Role

• Build at scale: Drive innovation across a $150B+ lending platform

• Real impact: Your work directly influences revenue, client experience, and business growth

• Modern tech + real complexity: AI/GenAI, data platforms, and emerging digital asset capabilities

• Best of both worlds: Fintech-style innovation with enterprise reach and resources

• High visibility: Partner with senior leadership on strategic initiatives

Skills Required:

• 12+ years in product, platform, or technology leadership

• Strong experience in at least one domain: AI/GenAI, Data Platforms, or Digital Assets

• Experience delivering complex, enterprise-scale platforms

• Experience in lending products such as mortgage, securities-based lending, tailored lending, or private markets/private share lending preferred

• Strong ability to lead across cross-functional, matrixed organizations

• People management experience preferred

• BA/BS required

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients - helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that's differentiated - and we've done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren't just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you'll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There's also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $150,000 and $250,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background. Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

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