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Director, Growth Strategy

Fidelity

Fidelity

Sales & Business Development
Merrimack, NH, USA · Boston, MA, USA · smithfield, ri, usa · Covington, KY, USA
Posted on Mar 16, 2025
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Job Description:

DIRECTOR, GROWTH STRATEGY

Fidelity’s Emerging Business unit leverages Fidelity’s deep expertise in workplace benefits to design innovative solutions for some of America’s most pressing personal finance issues. Student debt is one of the most significant financial challenges facing millions of Americans today. Our Student Debt team has designed a suite of innovative benefits for employers that help their employees to better understand, avoid, and pay down student debt. Today, many of Fidelity’s workplace clients use student debt benefit to support employee retention and financial wellness.

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated Director, Growth Strategy to join the Student Debt Product Area. This role will work alongside product area leadership to define near and long term strategic objectives and roadmap aligned with market opportunity, impact potential and business objectives. You’ll take a leading role in understanding and mapping market dynamics, identifying and vetting growth opportunities, and driving implementation. You’ll also help to define and clarify compelling value propositions; develop clear and compelling narratives around Student Debt strategy, performance and impact; and align cross-functional stakeholders around a shared vision. If you thrive in a fast-paced, start-up environment, like to think broadly, yet still go deep and contribute to market leading innovations, then this opportunity is for you!

The Expertise You Have

  • 10+ years of experience in consulting, growth strategy, or product strategy

  • Experience working in a matrixed, cross-enterprise / business unit environment

  • Experience launching and scaling products across B2B and B2C environments

  • Financial services and/or management consulting experience preferred

  • MBA or equivalent strategic training is a plus

The Skills You Bring

  • Experience leading strategic planning, defining success metrics, and translating vision into actionable roadmaps and measurable outcomes

  • Experience leading cross-functional teams; and aligning and influencing stakeholders around a common vision

  • Excellent project leadership and organization skills; proven ability to drive projects forward and demonstrate results

  • Proven ability to distill complex topics into key insights and digestible, powerful narratives. Experience creating and delivering clear concise presentations for senior leadership.

  • Data-driven, analytically thoughtful, detail-oriented, research-focused, and intellectually curious

  • Creative problem solver, comfortable with ambiguity, complexity, innovation and change

  • Desire to join an accountable, multifaceted, and collaborative team of growth strategists, marketers, salespeople, and product leaders. You’ll put your stamp on our business while also learning from your skilled teammates.

The Value You Deliver

  • Support development and implementation of near and long term product area strategy, objectives and roadmap

  • Identify and evaluate new growth opportunities for Student Debt aligned with long term vision; build business cases to support investment decisions

  • Work across cross-functional stakeholders to support progress towards annual growth KPIs, including target market analysis, value proposition development and strategy/roadmap alignment

  • Develop clear, compelling data driven narratives around product area priorities, progress and impact

  • Conduct benchmarking, research and landscape analysis to inform strategic direction (competitive, regulatory, market, customer)

  • Lead key governance routines and executive communications; evangelize mission and work to promote awareness, buy in and collaboration.

Certifications:

Category:

Product Management

Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.

Company overview

At Fidelity, we are passionate about making our financial expertise broadly accessible and effective in helping people live the lives they want! We are a privately held company that places a high degree of value in creating and nurturing a work environment that attracts the best talent and reflects our commitment to our associates. We are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace where we respect and value our associates for their unique perspectives and experiences. For information about working at Fidelity, visit FidelityCareers.com. Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to complete the application or interview process.

If you would like to request an accommodation, please contact us at:

accommodations@fmr.com

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Join us

At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a top 10 Best Place to Work in 2024. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.

Fidelity's working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to [email protected], or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.

At Fidelity, we value honesty, integrity, and the safety of our associates and customers within a heavily regulated industry. Certain roles may require candidates to go through a preliminary credit check during the screening process. Candidates who are presented with a Fidelity offer will need to go through a background investigation and may be asked to provide additional documentation as requested. This investigation includes but is not limited to a criminal, civil litigations and regulatory review, employment, education, and credit review (role dependent). These investigations will account for 7 years or more of history, depending on the role. Where permitted by federal or state law, Fidelity will also conduct a pre-employment drug screen, which will review for the following substances: Amphetamines, THC (marijuana), cocaine, opiates, phencyclidine.

Benefits
Learning & development
Culture

Benefits that adapt to everything life sends your way

401(k) with company match

Medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage

16-week maternity leave & 12-week parental leave

Student loan assistance

Fidelity is invested in you

Committed to Professional Development

At Fidelity, we are constantly adapting to the changing needs of our customers, new technologies, and better ways of working. And we empower our employees to do the same, with an emphasis on developing skills and connections that will help propel you forward in your career while being able to make an impact for Fidelity’s customers around the world.

We offer a wide range of options for professional development including online, in-person, and mentor driven solutions. Special interest and networking groups are also part of our culture of empowerment, personal and professional enrichment, diversity and inclusion, and knowledge sharing.

Continuing Education & Training

  • Assess, build, and align your development plan through resources like our skill-building classroom and online courses.
  • Video-based training for technology, leadership, management & more.
  • Ongoing skills development and coaching opportunities.
  • Paid training with a facilitator who is dedicated to your onboarding and will track and evaluate your progress, giving you strategies to improve.
  • A range of talent development programs to support career mobility.

Mentoring

  • Utilize the skills of experienced leaders to enrich your career.
  • Dedicated mentors to help you grow into new areas of Fidelity’s business as you develop new skills.
  • An open atmosphere of knowledge sharing and collaboration.
  • Opportunities to pay it forward, sharing the knowledge you develop and as you help others define how they want their career to take shape.

Our Commitment

Discover opportunities to build a fulfilling career within a supportive culture that celebrates individuality. We empower our associates to pursue career paths that align with their unique goals and personalities.

Giving back to our communities

Throughout Fidelity, you’ll find a genuine commitment to social responsibility – where we strive to make an impact for customers, while also making an impact on the world.

Fidelity Cares

  • Provides associates with opportunities to actively volunteer and share their talents.
  • Hosts numerous company-wide volunteer events (in-person and virtual).
  • Partners with nonprofit organizations to support our local communities.
  • More than 12,500 associates donate time annually – from interns to SVPs.
  • Impact includes refurbishing schools, donating books and supplies, and teaching financial literacy.

Fidelity Charitable®

  • Created to make it easy for people to support charitable organizations they care about.
  • Helped deliver $14.9billion in donor-recommended grants to charity in 2024.
  • Supported more than 433,000 unique charities around the world.
  • Since its inception, more than $100 billion has been given to public charities.

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