J.P. Morgan Wealth Management - Executive Director, Credit Decisioning Unit

Be at the center of a Line of Business wide Initiative to build a new Credit Decisioning Unit that helps manage risk and reward across bank and broker-dealer credit products. You’ll help define innovative decisioning frameworks and mature them into scalable, well-governed processes.

In this individual contributor Executive Director role within JPMorgan Wealth Management, you will lead foundational build-out initiatives for the Credit Decisioning Unit (a First Line Unit) and drive the transition into mature portfolio, analytics, product partnership, and governance routines. You will bring deep capital markets expertise, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and influence across senior stakeholders, front line teams, Product, Independent Risk (2LOD), Technology, and support functions.

Job responsibilities

• Manage risk-taking across lending portfolios using the Marginal Decisioning Framework (MDF)
• Lead the margin adequacy framework, coordinating market coverage and market-driven actions with 1LOD and 2LOD partners
• Design and/or extend quantitative models, frameworks, and metrics, including governance where needed
• Maintain analytics quality to ensure credibility and robustness of decisioning frameworks
• Partner with front line teams and 2LOD to structure and support innovative and non-standard asset lending solutions
• Support front line teams with complex queries, learning forums, and client discussions; publish market-facing commentary and research as needed
• Produce compliant policies, model documentation, procedures, and reporting; manage governance, escalations, and presentations to relevant forums

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Undergraduate degree
• 12+ years in an analytical, technical, trading, or research-oriented role in capital markets
• Broad financial product knowledge
• Practical Python experience and familiarity with data analytics packages in a professional environment
• Practical experience with Tableau or other BI/data visualization tools and Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including explaining technical capital markets concepts to non-technical audiences
• Team-oriented mindset with a strong sense of ownership

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Academic concentration in a technical discipline
• Graduate degree and/or professional designations
• Background in (or experience with) financial mathematics, financial engineering, quantitative risk methodologies, and/or data science
• Experience in credit risk/market risk, derivatives/hedging strategies, credit portfolio management or lending businesses, and/or JPMorgan proprietary risk methodologies/models/frameworks