About Us

American Century Investments® is a leading global asset manager with over 65 years of experience helping a broad base of clients achieve their financial goals. Our expertise spans global equities and fixed income, multi-asset strategies, ETFs, and private investments.

Privately controlled and independent, we focus solely on investment management. But there’s an unexpected side to us, too. We direct over 40% of our profits every year—more than $2 billion since 2000—to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. Our ongoing financial support drives the Institute’s breakthrough work and mission of defeating life-threatening diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. So, the better we do for our clients, the more we can do for everyone.

All 1,400 of us across the globe are inspired every day by the unique difference our hard work can make in so many lives. It shows in the curiosity we bring to every initiative, the deep relationships we build with our clients, and the way we treat each other in the hallway. If you’re excited to learn more about us, we can’t wait to learn more about you.

Role Summary

The Senior Product Planning Specialist is responsible for the management and coordination of projects throughout the lifetime of our investment products. This includes planning new launches, launching a variety of investment vehicles, changes to existing investment vehicles, and liquidation of unsuccessful products. The successful candidate will manage these processes from initial planning to delivery, inclusive of cross-team and cross-organizational activities and results.

You will help plan these actions in conjunction with Global Product leadership and Product Management, then you are the primary liaison for the project roadmap and have accountability for successful execution. You will collaborate across all areas of the firm, helping to identify impacts and risks associated with the projects. Once in progress you will have responsibility for communicating status to all relevant stakeholders and for driving efficient decision-making on potential issues that may arise.

This hybrid position will be based out of our Kansas City, MO office.

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without visa sponsorship, now or in the future.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Lead all phases of the product lifecycle, including, but not limited to project plan creation, kickoffs, and internal status meetings, handling timeline, communication with key stakeholders, achievements, and deliverables

• Work with key stakeholders to identify risks, plan for risk response, and mitigation and proactively monitor project risks and resolutions

• Strategic partner for product leadership team members to evaluate resource constraints, prioritize workflows, broker decisions, and identify trade-offs in conjunction with operational infrastructure

• Support scrum of scrum and PI planning sessions by clearly representing product initiatives

• Assist and communicate effectively with all levels of leadership in decision-making, program management, and initiative implementation

• Assess all impacted stakeholders across the firm, and ensure effective inputs and communication to them as part of processes

• Collaborating with product, investments, operations, and distribution team members to ensure business requirements are effectively built and shared with appropriate teams for execution

• Demonstrate understanding of, contribute to, and communicate the product's vision to support teams—understanding both internal and external rationales for the product action

What You Bring to the Team (Required)

• Strong knowledge of various investment management product structures

• Experience with equity, fixed income, and multi-asset investment approaches

• Bachelor’s degree or relevant equivalent work experience

• 7+ years of asset management experience, preferable centered on detailed knowledge of operational infrastructure

• Experience managing and leading delivery of large-scale projects, effectively prioritizing and planning across multiple initiatives

• Your experience in effectively communicating program status, risks, scope, etc. to clients

• Experience facilitating meetings to secure decisions and identify next steps

• Effective communicator (written and verbal)

• Validated time management, organizational, and leadership skills

• Desire to drive collaboration across teams

• Ability to build relationships with leadership, resources, and partners through essential aspects such as influencing, communication, facilitation, and trust

• Prior experience with project management software

• Demonstrates the American Century Investments Winning Behaviors: Client Focused, Courageous and Accountable, Collaborative, Curious and Adaptable, Competitively Driven

Additional Assets (Preferred)

• Experience with financial management is preferred

• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including MS PowerPoint, MS Project, and MS Visio

The above statements are not intended to be a complete list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation package with bonus plan
• Generous PTO and competitive benefits
• 401k with 5% company match plus annual performance-based discretionary contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, formal mentorship program, live and online learning

Learn more about our benefits and perks.

Employees are required to be in the office on a scheduled frequency. Adherence to this schedule is essential to fulfilling the expectations of the role.

American Century Investments is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act and all other applicable Equal Employment Opportunity laws and regulations. As such, American Century strives to provide a reasonable accommodation to any qualified individual under the ADA to perform essential job functions.

We encourage people of all backgrounds to join us on our mission. If you require reasonable accommodation for any aspect of the recruitment process, please send a request to [email protected]. All requests for accommodation will be addressed as confidentially as practicable.

American Century Investments believes all individuals are entitled to equal employment opportunity and advancement opportunities without regard to race, religious creed, color, sex, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age for individuals forty years of age and older, military and veteran status, sexual orientation, and any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws. ACI does not discriminate or adopt any policy that discriminates against an individual or any group of individuals on any of these bases.

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