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The Director, Strategy & Execution is the senior executive responsible for turning global ETF strategy into disciplined, scalable execution across regions, platforms, and functions. The role serves as the integrator and operatorinchief for the ETF & Index business-aligning a long-term vision to commercial priorities, operating models, technology, governance, KPIs, benefits realization and continuous improvement with right talent to support growth, resilience, and longterm competitiveness. This leader operates at the intersection of strategy, investment capabilities, people, and platform acting as the connective tissue across Investments, Product, Distribution, Technology, Operations, Risk, and Enterprise Architecture globally. This role is central to ensuring that Invesco's ETF growth ambition is matched by execution capability-reducing friction, lowering operational risk, and enabling leadership teams to focus on value creation rather than complexity management.

• Translate global ETF strategy into executable operating plans across regions and functions.

• Connect and lead a highperforming global ETF operating organization with clear role clarity, accountability, project and resource planning.

• Enable commercial execution by ensuring operational and primary market readiness for:

  • Product launches, conversions, strategy and index transitions

  • Market and regional expansion

  • Internal and external partnership alignment to drive results.

• Drive operating and commercial rhythm for key external partnerships, including index providers, support vendors, exchanges, custodians, and service providers.

• Represent the ETF business in commercial and enterprise forums focused on strategy, risk, and scalability.

• Own and continuously evolve the global ETF operating model, including:

  • Clear decision rights and accountability

  • Scalable, standardized processes

  • Endtoend ownership from ideation through lifecycle management

• Drive alignment between ETF business priorities and enterprise architecture to ensure platform support, growth, scale, and regulatory requirements.

• Lead delivery of critical ETF platform capabilities spanning trading, portfolio management, capital markets, data, onboarding, and launch readiness inclusive of performance and market quality monitoring of key teams and providers.

• Create governance framework and cadence to establish co-actioning on issues, decisions and project logs and translate constraints into actions across product and distribution partnerships.

• Own the ETF execution risk & control framework through engagement with investment support, risk, compliance, audit, ETF operations, and fund administration touchpoints.

• Lead incident response and playbooks for material operational events.

Requirements of the Role:

• College graduate in related field, or related work experience

• 10+ years relevant work experience in technical and leadership roles

• MBA and/or CFA/CIMA preferred

• Senior leadership experience in ETFs, asset management, or complex regulated financial services

• Track record of leading global strategy execution in both commercial and operational growth

• Experience partnering closely with Technology and Enterprise Architecture teams

• Strong understanding of ETF operating lifecycles, from product development through ongoing management and end client.

• Experience operating in global, multiregion environments

• Highly executionoriented leader with strong strategic judgment

• Proven change leader and communicator who aligns complex, matrixed organizations

• Commercially aware and operationally rigorous

• Strong influencer without reliance on direct authority

• Deep understanding of how technology, operating models, and people enable commercial outcomes

• Adept at incident triage, cross-functional coordination and risk management.

• Calm under complexity; decisive under pressure

• Trusted partner to senior leadership, Boards, and regulators

• Builder of clarity, accountability, and momentum

• Direct experience with investment ETF platforms, capital markets, or quantitative/indexbased investing preferred

• Leadership of largescale technology, data, or infrastructure programs preferred

• Comfort working across Investments, Distribution, and Technology organizations preferred

• Familiarity with global ETF regulatory and market structures preferred

The total compensation offered for this position, which includes salary and incentive pay, will vary based on skills, experience and location. The salary range for this position in Downers Grove is $180,000 to $250,000 annually.

Pursuant to Invesco's Workplace Policy, employees are expected to comply with the firm's most current workplace model, which as of October 1, 2025, includes spending at least four full days each week working in an Invesco office. This reflects our belief that spending time together in the office helps us build stronger relationships, collaborate more easily, and support each other's growth and development.

The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The job holder may be required to perform other duties as deemed appropriate by their manager from time to time.

Invesco's culture of inclusivity and its commitment to diversity in the workplace are demonstrated through our people practices. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, age, or veteran status. Our equal opportunity employment efforts comply with all applicable U.S. state and federal laws governing non-discrimination in employment.