Group Head, Platforms
Job Summary
- Role Purpose The Group Head, Platforms will lead ARM’s digital investment platform strategy, driving growth, customer experience excellence, and product-led innovation across all client touchpoints. The role is accountable for defining the platform strategy, orchestrating cross-functional delivery, managing the full product lifecycle, and ensuring seamless integration with engineering, data, operations, and business teams. The Group Head, Platforms co-owns platform P&L with business segment leads, embedding a technology-enabled, scalable, and commercially disciplined product operating model
Job Details
Key Responsibilities
Platform Strategy & Vision
- Define a unified, multi-year platform strategy that integrates mass affluent, high net worth, institutional and B2B2C propositions.
- Translate corporate objectives into clear product roadmaps, commercial milestones, and platform OKRs.
- Drive platform evolution: omni-channel architecture, modular product ecosystem, embedded finance, and partner-led scalability.
Product Leadership & Portfolio Management
- Lead the product organization (Product Leads, Product Managers, UX/UI, Growth PMs).
- Prioritize product backlog using data-driven frameworks (ROI, customer value, effort/complexity).
- Oversee design excellence: customer journeys, UX research, behavioral design, funnel optimization.
- Own pricing, monetization, and feature rollout strategies.
Customer Experience & Growth
- Champion a customer-centric culture—embed continuous discovery, journey mapping, segmentation, and digital engagement models.
- Drive growth and adoption through experimentation, lifecycle marketing, personalization engines, and analytics.
- Define and manage customer NPS, platform conversion, retention, AUM growth, and product usage metrics.
Cross-Functional Delivery & Governance
- Co-own platform delivery governance with the Group Head of Technology and Head of
- Engineering (joint prioritization and sprint planning).
- Establish product-engineering rituals, roadmap governance, and release processes.
- Serve as executive sponsor for cross-functional squads delivering platform capabilities.
Data & Insights
- Oversee platform analytics, customer data strategy, and insights frameworks.
- Drive decision-making using performance dashboards, cohort analysis, unit economics, and customer behavior analytics.
Partnerships & Ecosystem Development
- Build and manage partnerships with banks, fintechs, custodians, payment providers, data
- providers, and distribution partners.
Manage vendor selection, API and integration strategy, and commercial negotiations.
- Leadership & Organizational Development
- Build a high-performance product organization with the right talent mix.
- Establish culture, team rituals, performance frameworks, and capability development.
Requirements
Required Skills & Experience
- 12+ years in Product, Platform, Digital Strategy, or Fintech leadership roles.
- Proven track record launching and scaling consumer-facing financial or investment products.
- Deep expertise in product management, UX, data analytics, growth, customer research, and digital operating models.
- Experience working closely with engineering teams in an agile environment.
- Strong commercial acumen; experience owning product P&L.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple senior stakeholders and drive enterprise alignment.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to ARM Hold Co. on arm.seamlesshiring.com to apply
