Manager, Advisor Platform Production Support and Integrations

Kestra Holdings

$100K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of product management experience in a cross-functional environment.
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field; advanced degree is a plus.
  • Experience with production support operations or SRE teams, particularly in incident response.
  • Proven background in managing third-party integrations and vendor relationships, including APIs and compliance.
  • Ability to create and implement operating mechanisms focused on continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Own the platform production support vision and roadmap, linking reliability to corporate goals.
  • Define and refine the operating model for intake, triage, and incident communications.
  • Establish and manage reliability metrics and health dashboards, reporting on performance and improvements.
  • Lead incident management practices, including severity definitions and root-cause analyses.
  • Own the integrations roadmap with external vendors, overseeing prioritization and functional requirements.
  • Manage vendor integration delivery, ensuring compliance with standards and performance metrics.
  • Drive product strategy and execution while navigating production environment challenges.

Benefits

  • Competitive pay and benefits with a large employer (over 1600 employees nationwide).
  • 401(k), health insurance, and a competitive benefits package.
  • Supportive, collaborative work environment focused on professional excellence.
  • Assistance in helping clients make informed financial decisions.
  • Training, development, and growth opportunities within the firm.
  • Tuition reimbursement for qualifying expenses.
Full Job Description
Kestra is seeking a strategic, execution-oriented Product Manager to own Platform Production Support and Platform Integrations with third-party vendors. This role blends product management and operational leadership-driving platform reliability, supportability, and service health while shaping an integrations roadmap that enables business capabilities through secure, scalable vendor connectivity. You will partner with engineering, operations, security/compliance, and business stakeholders to establish clear support models, operational metrics (SLA/SLO/SLI), and continuous-improvement mechanisms (runbooks, problem management, root-cause analysis). You will also lead the end-to-end integration lifecycle with external vendors-from intake and prioritization to technical requirements, testing/certification, release readiness, and ongoing performance management. What you'll Do: • Own the platform production support product vision and roadmap, aligning reliability and support outcomes with corporate objectives and measurable business impact. • Define and evolve the production support operating model (intake, triage, escalation, incident communications, and handoffs across engineering, service desk, and business teams). • Establish and manage reliability metrics (SLAs/SLOs/SLIs), error budgets, and health dashboards; regularly report service performance and improvement plans to stakeholders. • Lead incident and problem-management practices including severity definitions, on-call readiness, post-incident reviews, root-cause analysis (RCA), and tracking corrective/preventive actions to completion. • Own the platform integrations roadmap with third-party vendors, including intake/prioritization, functional and non-functional requirements, and value measurement. • Manage vendor integration delivery and operations: API/contract standards, security and compliance reviews, testing/certification, release readiness, change management, and ongoing vendor performance (availability, latency, defects, and support responsiveness). • Proven ability to lead product strategy and execution while operating effectively in a production environment (tradeoffs, prioritization under pressure, and crisp decision-making). • Strong understanding of production support disciplines (incident, problem, and change management) and familiarity with SRE/ITIL concepts. • Experience delivering platform integrations with third-party vendors, including APIs, data exchange patterns, and integration testing/certification practices. • Strong stakeholder management and incident communications skills, with the ability to translate technical issues into clear business impact and updates. • Demonstrated ability to create operating mechanisms (runbooks, playbooks, support workflows) and drive continuous improvement through data and retrospectives. • Vendor-management skills, including partnering on roadmaps, setting expectations, and holding vendors accountable to service levels and remediation timelines. • Strong analytical skills with experience defining and monitoring KPIs (availability, incident trends, MTTR, defect escape rate, integration throughput, and adoption). • Ability to partner deeply with engineering on architecture tradeoffs (resiliency, observability, scalability) and to influence without formal authority across multiple teams. What You Bring: • 5+ years of product management experience, with demonstrated delivery of platform capabilities in a cross-functional environment. • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field (advanced degree a plus). • Experience partnering with production support, NOC/service desk, or SRE/operations teams; comfort participating in incident response and driving post-incident improvements. • Experience delivering and operating third-party integrations (vendor management, API/data contracts, security/compliance reviews, and release/change management) strongly preferred. Internal Application Policy: Internal applicants must be in good standing and have a minimum of 1 year of service with Kestra. Internal applicants must also have a minimum of 1 year service in current role unless approved by EVP. Benefits to support you: • Competitive pay and benefits with a large employer (over 1600 employees nationwide) • 401(k), health insurance, and a competitive benefits package • Work in a supportive, collaborative environment committed to professional excellence • Help clients navigate meaningful financial decisions with confidence • Opportunities for training, development, and long-term growth within the firm • Tuition reimbursement for qualified expenses

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