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At LPL, people leaders hold the key to the employee experience — shaping culture, driving performance, and guiding individuals to new heights. Because when that happens, we all win – clients, LPL, and most importantly our employees.
If you're ready to lead with intention and discover what’s possible, LPL Financial invites you to apply today.
Job Overview:
The Retirement Partners team within LPL’s Wealth Management Solutions (WMS) group is building a market-leading retirement ecosystem that connects workplace retirement, individual retirement, and wealth management. The team is responsible for the strategy, development, commercialization, and ongoing evolution of retirement products and platforms—including product roadmaps, pricing, advisor experiences, and go-to-market execution. Our objective is to make retirement a powerful engine for advisor growth and better client outcomes by creating a seamless path from Plan Account Wealth.
The Vice President, Retirement Product Strategy & Development is a senior product leadership role with general management responsibility for Retirement Partners’ product team and accountability for the retirement product and platform portfolio. This leader will shape and execute the product vision, own integrated development roadmaps, and translate enterprise strategy into scalable capabilities that materially improve the advisor and client experience.
Working across Technology, Operations, Research, Legal, Product Risk, Finance, Comprehensive Advice, Marketing & Communications, Sales, and other Wealth Management teams, the VP will lead complex initiatives from opportunity identification and business case development through design, launch, commercialization, adoption, and ongoing optimization. The role requires a leader who can combine deep retirement expertise, product-management discipline, commercial judgment, and strong cross-functional influence to deliver measurable business outcomes.
Strategic Priorities:
This role will lead and/or materially advance priorities that strengthen LPL’s integrated retirement and wealth proposition, including:
- Launching solutions that provide advisors access to active workplace retirement accounts and held-away retirement assets.
- Developing and commercializing pooled and multiple-employer solutions, including PEP/MEP/MEAP capabilities, to accelerate net-new plan growth.
- Expanding the Small Business Owner retirement and workplace-benefits suite, including NQDC and Cash Balance Plan capabilities.
- Delivering a competitive, fully custodied retail retirement suite across SEP, SIMPLE, and Solo 401(k) products.
- Modernizing retirement experiences, data, workflows, and platform capabilities to reduce advisor friction and improve scalability.
- Optimizing the retirement-to-wealth flywheel through stronger rollover, retention, participant advice, and cross-sell capabilities.
- Building disciplined go-to-market strategies for new product launches that drive advisor awareness, adoption, and measurable commercial impact.
Responsibilities:
- Own product vision and roadmap. Set the strategic direction and integrated roadmap for Retirement Partners’ products and platforms, balancing advisor needs, market opportunity, economics, regulatory requirements, risk, and technology dependencies.
- Lead product development end to end. Convert strategic opportunities into clear business cases, product requirements, journey maps, workflows, and executable development plans; guide initiatives from concept through launch and continuous improvement.
- Drive commercialization and adoption. Partner with Marketing, Communications, Sales, Consulting, and Service teams to develop positioning, launch plans, advisor education, adoption strategies, and success measures for new and enhanced solutions.
- Serve as a retirement product authority. Act as a subject matter expert across Retirement Partners offerings, including BOR, 401(k), NQDC, 403(b), HSAs, pooled-plan solutions, retail retirement products, and related platform capabilities.
- Bring the advisor voice into product decisions. Engage advisors to understand needs, pain points, and emerging opportunities; translate feedback into prioritized roadmap decisions that support holistic wealth management.
- Create differentiated advisor experiences. Lead the design and enhancement of end-to-end workflows and journeys that make retirement solutions easier to understand, adopt, implement, and service.
- Lead through influence. Mobilize cross-functional teams across Technology, Operations, Legal, Risk, Finance, Research, Comprehensive Advice, and other product organizations to remove barriers and deliver enterprise-scale outcomes.
- Strengthen product governance and risk management. Partner with Product Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Operations to embed effective due diligence, operational readiness, controls, and ongoing monitoring throughout the product lifecycle.
- Stay ahead of the market. Monitor regulatory developments, competitor offerings, pricing, policy, platform innovation, and advisor trends; turn insights into actionable recommendations that strengthen LPL’s competitive position.
- Build product-management excellence. Help standardize product-management disciplines, decision frameworks, prioritization, measurement, and commercialization practices across Retirement Partners and partner organizations.
- Lead and develop talent. Provide direction, coaching, and accountability to the product team while building a high-performance culture focused on strategic thinking, execution excellence, collaboration, and measurable outcomes.
What are we looking for?
We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class customer service experience for LPL’s Financial Professionals. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team-oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 10 years of relevant financial-services experience, with significant experience in retirement, product management, product development, institutional accounts, or related businesses.
- Deep knowledge of retirement products, workplace and individual retirement markets, institutional accounts, and the regulatory environment.
- Demonstrated success developing and launching complex financial products, platforms, or digital capabilities from strategy through commercialization.
- Strong strategic and commercial acumen, with the ability to evaluate market opportunities, economics, customer needs, risk, and execution tradeoffs to make sound product decisions.
- Proven ability to lead large, cross-functional initiatives in a highly matrixed organization and drive decisions without relying solely on direct authority.
- Strong understanding of product lifecycle management, roadmap prioritization, agile development, workflow and journey design, and go-to-market execution.
- Exceptional executive communication, storytelling, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to translate advisor and client insights into scalable product solutions and measurable business outcomes.
- Ability to operate independently, navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, resolve escalations, and maintain momentum on strategically important initiatives.
- Strong leadership presence with the ability to develop talent, build alignment, and inspire teams around a compelling product vision.
What Success Looks Like:
Success in this role will be measured by the ability to turn Retirement Partners’ strategy into an integrated, competitive product portfolio that improves the advisor experience, expands retirement capabilities, accelerates adoption and growth, strengthens retention, and creates more seamless connectivity between retirement and wealth.
Pay Range:
$146,466.00 - $244,110.00
Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!
Company Overview:
LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace, LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses.
At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.
Join the LPL team and help us make a difference by turning life’s aspirations into financial realities. Please log in or create an account to apply to this position. Principals only. EOE.
Information on Interviews:
LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum. During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant’s bank or credit card. Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at (855) 575-6947.
Lead with Purpose, Unlock Your Team’s Passion:
At LPL, people leaders hold the key to the employee experience — shaping culture, driving performance, and guiding individuals to new heights. Because when that happens, we all win – clients, LPL, and most importantly our employees.
If you're ready to lead with intention and discover what’s possible, LPL Financial invites you to apply today.
Job Overview:
The Retirement Partners team within LPL’s Wealth Management Solutions (WMS) group is building a market-leading retirement ecosystem that connects workplace retirement, individual retirement, and wealth management. The team is responsible for the strategy, development, commercialization, and ongoing evolution of retirement products and platforms—including product roadmaps, pricing, advisor experiences, and go-to-market execution. Our objective is to make retirement a powerful engine for advisor growth and better client outcomes by creating a seamless path from Plan Account Wealth.
The Vice President, Retirement Product Strategy & Development is a senior product leadership role with general management responsibility for Retirement Partners’ product team and accountability for the retirement product and platform portfolio. This leader will shape and execute the product vision, own integrated development roadmaps, and translate enterprise strategy into scalable capabilities that materially improve the advisor and client experience.
Working across Technology, Operations, Research, Legal, Product Risk, Finance, Comprehensive Advice, Marketing & Communications, Sales, and other Wealth Management teams, the VP will lead complex initiatives from opportunity identification and business case development through design, launch, commercialization, adoption, and ongoing optimization. The role requires a leader who can combine deep retirement expertise, product-management discipline, commercial judgment, and strong cross-functional influence to deliver measurable business outcomes.
Strategic Priorities:
This role will lead and/or materially advance priorities that strengthen LPL’s integrated retirement and wealth proposition, including:
- Launching solutions that provide advisors access to active workplace retirement accounts and held-away retirement assets.
- Developing and commercializing pooled and multiple-employer solutions, including PEP/MEP/MEAP capabilities, to accelerate net-new plan growth.
- Expanding the Small Business Owner retirement and workplace-benefits suite, including NQDC and Cash Balance Plan capabilities.
- Delivering a competitive, fully custodied retail retirement suite across SEP, SIMPLE, and Solo 401(k) products.
- Modernizing retirement experiences, data, workflows, and platform capabilities to reduce advisor friction and improve scalability.
- Optimizing the retirement-to-wealth flywheel through stronger rollover, retention, participant advice, and cross-sell capabilities.
- Building disciplined go-to-market strategies for new product launches that drive advisor awareness, adoption, and measurable commercial impact.
Responsibilities:
- Own product vision and roadmap. Set the strategic direction and integrated roadmap for Retirement Partners’ products and platforms, balancing advisor needs, market opportunity, economics, regulatory requirements, risk, and technology dependencies.
- Lead product development end to end. Convert strategic opportunities into clear business cases, product requirements, journey maps, workflows, and executable development plans; guide initiatives from concept through launch and continuous improvement.
- Drive commercialization and adoption. Partner with Marketing, Communications, Sales, Consulting, and Service teams to develop positioning, launch plans, advisor education, adoption strategies, and success measures for new and enhanced solutions.
- Serve as a retirement product authority. Act as a subject matter expert across Retirement Partners offerings, including BOR, 401(k), NQDC, 403(b), HSAs, pooled-plan solutions, retail retirement products, and related platform capabilities.
- Bring the advisor voice into product decisions. Engage advisors to understand needs, pain points, and emerging opportunities; translate feedback into prioritized roadmap decisions that support holistic wealth management.
- Create differentiated advisor experiences. Lead the design and enhancement of end-to-end workflows and journeys that make retirement solutions easier to understand, adopt, implement, and service.
- Lead through influence. Mobilize cross-functional teams across Technology, Operations, Legal, Risk, Finance, Research, Comprehensive Advice, and other product organizations to remove barriers and deliver enterprise-scale outcomes.
- Strengthen product governance and risk management. Partner with Product Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Operations to embed effective due diligence, operational readiness, controls, and ongoing monitoring throughout the product lifecycle.
- Stay ahead of the market. Monitor regulatory developments, competitor offerings, pricing, policy, platform innovation, and advisor trends; turn insights into actionable recommendations that strengthen LPL’s competitive position.
- Build product-management excellence. Help standardize product-management disciplines, decision frameworks, prioritization, measurement, and commercialization practices across Retirement Partners and partner organizations.
- Lead and develop talent. Provide direction, coaching, and accountability to the product team while building a high-performance culture focused on strategic thinking, execution excellence, collaboration, and measurable outcomes.
What are we looking for?
We want strong collaborators who can deliver a world-class customer service experience for LPL’s Financial Professionals. We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced environment, are client-focused, team-oriented, and are able to execute in a way that encourages creativity and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 10 years of relevant financial-services experience, with significant experience in retirement, product management, product development, institutional accounts, or related businesses.
- Deep knowledge of retirement products, workplace and individual retirement markets, institutional accounts, and the regulatory environment.
- Demonstrated success developing and launching complex financial products, platforms, or digital capabilities from strategy through commercialization.
- Strong strategic and commercial acumen, with the ability to evaluate market opportunities, economics, customer needs, risk, and execution tradeoffs to make sound product decisions.
- Proven ability to lead large, cross-functional initiatives in a highly matrixed organization and drive decisions without relying solely on direct authority.
- Strong understanding of product lifecycle management, roadmap prioritization, agile development, workflow and journey design, and go-to-market execution.
- Exceptional executive communication, storytelling, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to translate advisor and client insights into scalable product solutions and measurable business outcomes.
- Ability to operate independently, navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, resolve escalations, and maintain momentum on strategically important initiatives.
- Strong leadership presence with the ability to develop talent, build alignment, and inspire teams around a compelling product vision.
What Success Looks Like:
Success in this role will be measured by the ability to turn Retirement Partners’ strategy into an integrated, competitive product portfolio that improves the advisor experience, expands retirement capabilities, accelerates adoption and growth, strengthens retention, and creates more seamless connectivity between retirement and wealth.
Pay Range:
$146,466.00 - $244,110.00
Actual base salary varies based on factors, including but not limited to, relevant skill, prior experience, education, base salary of internal peers, demonstrated performance, and geographic location. Additionally, LPL Total Rewards package is highly competitive, designed to support your success at work, at home, and at play – such as 401K matching, health benefits, employee stock options, paid time off, volunteer time off, and more. Your recruiter will be happy to discuss all that LPL has to offer!
Company Overview:
LPL Financial Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq: LPLA) is among the fastest growing wealth management firms in the U.S. As a leader in the financial advisor-mediated marketplace, LPL supports over 32,000 financial advisors and the wealth management practices of approximately 1,100 financial institutions, servicing and custodying approximately $2.3 trillion in brokerage and advisory assets on behalf of approximately 8 million Americans. The firm provides a wide range of advisor affiliation models, investment solutions, fintech tools and practice management services, ensuring that advisors and institutions have the flexibility to choose the business model, services, and technology resources they need to run thriving businesses.
At LPL, independence means that advisors and institution leaders have the freedom they deserve to choose the business model, services, and technology resources that allow them to run a thriving business. They have the flexibility to do business their way. And they have the freedom to manage their client relationships, because they know their clients best. Simply put, we take care of our advisors and institutions, so they can take care of their clients.
Join the LPL team and help us make a difference by turning life’s aspirations into financial realities. Please log in or create an account to apply to this position. Principals only. EOE.
Information on Interviews:
LPL will only communicate with a job applicant directly from an @lplfinancial.com email address and will never conduct an interview online or in a chatroom forum. During an interview, LPL will not request any form of payment from the applicant, or information regarding an applicant’s bank or credit card. Should you have any questions regarding the application process, please contact LPL’s Human Resources Solutions Center at (855) 575-6947.
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VP of Product Development roles must meet USCIS's specialty occupation standard. Pull your O*NET profile and cross-reference your degree field directly against your job duties before interviews, so you can articulate the connection clearly when employers ask.
Target companies with dedicated immigration programs
At the VP level, sponsorship decisions often sit with legal or HR leadership, not hiring managers. Use Migrate Mate to identify employers with verified LCA filing history for senior product roles, so you're applying where the infrastructure already exists.
Verify prevailing wage tier before accepting an offer
H-1B LCAs for VP roles typically file at Wage Level III or IV. Run your location and job title through the OFLC Wage Search before negotiating compensation, since an offer below the certified wage level will block the LCA filing entirely.
Ask about PERM timeline during the offer stage
Many employers won't initiate PERM labor certification until 12 to 18 months into your tenure. Raise this timeline explicitly during offer negotiations so you can align your H-1B extension schedule with when PERM recruitment must begin.
Account for the H-1B cap and lottery in your start-date planning
If you're not already in H-1B status, your employer must file during the annual registration window for an October 1 start date. Build at least six months of buffer into your transition timeline to avoid gaps if selection is delayed by the lottery.
Prepare a business necessity memo for your role
USCIS increasingly issues Requests for Evidence on VP-level H-1B petitions, questioning whether the role requires a specific degree rather than general business experience. Work with your employer's immigration counsel to draft a business necessity memo before the petition is filed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Vice President of Product Development role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, provided the role requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field such as computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline. USCIS scrutinizes VP-level titles because broad management duties can complicate the specialty occupation argument, so your employer's petition should document the technical degree requirement explicitly and tie it to the core functions of the role.
Which visa types are most commonly used to sponsor VP of Product Development candidates?
H-1B is the most common path for employer-sponsored VP roles. Australian citizens can pursue the E-3 visa, which has no lottery and renews indefinitely. Canadian and Mexican nationals may qualify under TN visa if the role maps to an eligible USMCA profession. Senior candidates with a U.S. master's degree or higher may also benefit from the H-1B advanced degree exemption, which provides a separate cap allocation.
How do I find employers actively sponsoring Vice President of Product Development roles?
Migrate Mate lists U.S. employers with verified LCA sponsorship history for senior product development roles, searchable by city and job function. This filters your search to companies that have already navigated the filing process for comparable positions, which is especially relevant at the VP level where sponsorship decisions require legal and executive sign-off.
Does a VP of Product Development role support a green card application?
Yes. Most VP-level product development roles qualify for EB-2 sponsorship, which requires an advanced degree or exceptional ability, or EB-3 for skilled workers. The employer typically initiates PERM labor certification through the DOL, which involves advertising the role to demonstrate no qualified U.S. workers are available. Priority date backlogs vary significantly by country of birth, particularly for Indian and Chinese nationals.
What degree is required for H-1B sponsorship in this role?
USCIS requires at least a bachelor's degree in a field directly related to the position. For VP of Product Development roles, that typically means a degree in computer science, electrical engineering, software engineering, or a related technical field. A general business or management degree alone may not satisfy the specialty occupation requirement unless the job duties have a heavy technical component that the employer can document.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Vice President of Product Development jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.