Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, State Street Investment Management

Role Summary

The Executive Vice President and General Counsel of State Street Investment Management (SSIM) is the chief legal officer and senior legal advisor to a global asset manager with more than $6 trillion in assets. Reporting jointly to the General Counsel of State Street Corporation and the Chief Executive Officer of SSIM, the role is a member of SSIM’s Executive Management Group and helps shape strategy, governance, growth, and risk management.

As Chief Legal Officer, you will lead SSIM’s global legal function, advising on business strategy, products, distribution, transactions, regulation, and risk. You will combine deep legal expertise, commercial judgment, and global leadership experience to balance business objectives, fiduciary responsibilities, client needs, and regulatory expectations.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Business and Executive Leadership

• Serve as principal legal advisor to the CEO, Executive Management Group, and senior leadership on SSIM’s strategy, business, clients, products, and operations.
• Advise on growth, product innovation, market expansion, partnerships, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other major initiatives.
• Translate complex legal and regulatory developments into practical, commercially focused guidance.
• Contribute to business strategy and constructively challenge decisions to balance commercial objectives with legal, fiduciary, and reputational risk.

Legal and Regulatory Leadership

• Lead SSIM’s global legal function and set the legal strategy supporting its business objectives and obligations.
• Advise on investment management regulation, fund governance, distribution, fiduciary duties, products, client matters, technology, transactions, and commercial arrangements.
• Oversee legal support for regulatory examinations, investigations, litigation, enforcement, strategic transactions, product launches, and market expansion.
• Monitor global regulatory developments and engage regulators, industry bodies, policymakers, and other external stakeholders as appropriate.

Risk Management and Governance

• Maintain a global framework for identifying, assessing, escalating, mitigating, and reporting material legal risk.
• Partner with Risk, Compliance, Audit, and other control functions to strengthen risk management and governance.
• Ensure material legal, regulatory, and reputational risks are escalated to the appropriate leadership and governance bodies.
• Provide clear, timely advice on emerging risks, regulatory expectations, and industry developments.

Enterprise Leadership

• Serve as a senior leader within State Street Legal and contribute to enterprise strategy, governance, and decision-making.
• Partner across business lines and corporate functions to promote collaboration and consistent management of legal risk.
• Advance Legal Department priorities across talent, operating model, technology, knowledge management, and service delivery.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, accountability, inclusion, and excellence across SSIM and the broader Legal organization.

Talent and Organizational Leadership

• Lead and develop a high-performing global team of attorneys and legal professionals.
• Build succession, professional development, and leadership capabilities across the function.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, commercially minded, and results-oriented culture.
• Align legal resources across geographies and disciplines with business priorities and regulatory demands.

Financial and Operational Management

• Manage the SSIM legal budget, financial objectives, outside counsel, and external providers.
• Use technology, data, process improvement, and knowledge management to improve service, efficiency, and scalability.
• Ensure the function operates with strong controls, governance, accountability, and service quality.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor or equivalent qualification, with active authorization to practice in a relevant jurisdiction.
• At least 20 years of legal experience, including senior leadership in financial services or another highly regulated industry.
• Deep knowledge of laws, regulations, and industry practices affecting global asset managers, investment products, distribution, fiduciary duties, and institutional clients.
• Proven success advising executive teams and boards on complex legal, regulatory, commercial, governance, and risk matters.
• Experience leading large global teams in a complex, matrixed organization and developing talent, succession, and culture.
• Track record of delivering practical business solutions while maintaining independent judgment and managing legal and regulatory requirements.
• Experience with major regulatory matters, strategic transactions, investigations, litigation, and complex commercial arrangements.
• Exceptional judgment, executive presence, communication, negotiation, and influencing skills; experience in a global systemically important financial institution or similarly complex organization preferred.

Salary Range:

The range quoted above applies to the role in the location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the location above, the applicable range could differ.

Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.

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About State Street

Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.

We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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