Reports to: EVP, Global Head of Client Impact

Department/ Division: Client Impact

Location: Boston preferable

The Head Thought Leadership is responsible for leading and executing a 'One State Street' approach to strategic thought leadership, in support of our purpose to help create better outcomes for the world's investors and the people they serve. This role will have accountability for ensuring a cohesive and relevant State Street Thought Leadership agenda that anticipates topics of interest for our clients and stakeholders and ensures State Street is proactive informing on key industry trends. The Head of Thought Leadership will partner regularly with State Street's Chairman and CEO as well members of the executive team to develop and continuously refresh State Street's thought leadership content. Leadership of the editorial board and informing and driving our global thought leadership priorities and agenda, will be accomplished in alignment with State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), State Street Associates (SSA), Product, and Marketing. This role will interface with some of our most sophisticated clients, including Chief Investment Officers, on matters related to how State Street can support their operating model objectives, leveraging our insights to influence.

• Partner to influence relevant and critical thought leadership across State Street globally, including SSA, SSGA, Product and Global Marketing
• Strong partnership with SSA and SSGA in leading the editorial board which will bring the best of each organization's thought leadership together to collectively prioritize how and when we best position key topics in the interest of our clients and the industry
• Develop a targeted and personalized strategic approach to thought leadership with our clients across Investment Services
• Build relationships with Chief Investment Officers at State Street's Investment Services clients leveraging relevant thought leadership topics and solutions to enable commercial positioning of State Street products/platforms
• In close cooperation with marketing, develop thought leadership to fuel our revenue focused campaigns across all regions and build our brand awareness
• Bring One State Street view to clients with the aim of driving thematic content that further differentiates and establishes our reputation in the market in areas of strategic importance
• Serve as primary contact for thought leadership communication with the Chairman and CEO, executive team, and business partners, providing regular updates and soliciting involvement as appropriate
• Leverage research and stakeholder perspectives to strengthen partnerships and develop content in line with reputational aspirations
• Enable executive platform themes with differentiated research and white papers and help determine the themes our executives' present at tier 1 events
• Deliver executive driven targeted research as required for impact
• Working with SSA, our hub for academic partnerships, engage in joint research with academic and industry partners
• Showcase industry experts with targeted interviews and roundtables
• Set and deliver outcome-based thought leadership key results and measure and track against key KPIs

• Lead a thought leadership and research team dedicated to generating content and manage resources to deliver a robust presence in an efficient and timely manner
• Review thought leadership content from inception to publication
• Represent investment thought leadership content in various forums as warranted- in person delivery, as well as written - client advisory boards, client events, social media and other
• Partner with Marketing to ensure optimal activation of thought leadership in context of targeted audience (client, social, event, etc)

• Design a scalable client training program that provides an end-to-end view of State Street's capabilities globally
• Evaluate the opportunity for a global STT "institute"
• Partner with Sales and Relationship Management teams to set client training strategy in alignment with commercial outcomes
• Ensure client experience is at forefront of training program by providing a seamless training experience

• 20+ years relevant thought leadership, research and/or academic experience, preferably in financial industry
• Strong track record of connecting the dots to inform a larger strategy while maintaining an execution-oriented mindset
• Strong skills needed to influence and gain stakeholder buy-in
• Strong content development and research background
• Familiarity with the latest trends in financial content creation, storytelling and user engagement
• Experience working in a large, complex organization with multiple legal entity structures and business lines
• Ability to manage projects across multiple stakeholders, timelines, and key deliverables
• Excellent analytical skills and strong presentation, verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated track record of achievement with respect to driving sustainable and scalable change