Senior Vice President, Product Development in London

LaSalle is establishing a new, dedicated Product Development function to bring discipline and strategic focus to how we design, evaluate, and bring investment products to market. This is a newly created role with meaningful scope: you will help define what a best-in-class product function looks like at LaSalle and will serve as the connector between investment strategy, market intelligence, and product execution to ensure the right ideas get prioritized, developed rigorously, and delivered to Investor Relations with the materials, narrative, and structure needed to support a successful capital raise.

The SVP, Product Development will serve as the firm's primary point of accountability for ensuring our product suite is strategically sound, commercially positioned, and effectively brought to market. You will partner with Investment Management, Investor Relations, Research, Legal, and Marketing and will report directly to the Global COO/President.

This is a unique opportunity to build something meaningful at a firm with strong fundamentals and a clear mandate for growth. LaSalle's 2030 strategy makes new product innovation a central priority for the first time, and this role sits at the center of that effort. The successful candidate will have the backing of senior leadership and a clear path to impact from day one.

• Product Strategy & Ideation
  • Maintain deep, current knowledge of LaSalle’s product suite alongside competitor offerings, investor demand trends, and emerging product structures globally.
  • Develop a systematic approach to idea generation, synthesizing input from Investment Management, Research, IR, and clients, and translate insights into actionable product concepts.
  • Build and maintain a prioritized product pipeline, ensuring alignment with LaSalle’s firmwide strategic objectives and the Three Councils governance framework.
  • Lead structured product scoring and evaluation, assessing market viability, strategic fit, and commercial potential for new concepts before they advance to the approval stage.
• Stakeholder Alignment & Orchestration
  • Act as the connector between Investment Management, IR, Research, Marketing, Legal, and Finance throughout the product lifecycle, clarifying ownership, managing handoffs, and keeping workstreams on track.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for new product ideas across the firm, ensuring all relevant stakeholders are engaged at the right stages.
  • Partner with regional COOs and business line heads to surface product development needs and ensure global coordination on new initiatives.
• Product Development & Governance
  • Shepherd new product ideas through LaSalle’s governance process, coordinating across Investment Management, IR, Research, Tax, Legal, and Finance to ensure timely, well-prepared submissions.
  • Own the product development project plan once a concept receives initial approval, tracking milestones, managing work-streams, and escalating risks as needed.
  • Partner with Global Funds Counsel and Tax on fund structuring decisions, ensuring go-to-market and operational readiness are addressed early in the process.
  • Drive structured life-cycle reviews at defined intervals, evaluating whether existing products remain strategically relevant and appropriately positioned.
  • Conduct strategic wind-down assessments of products approaching end-of-life, including evaluating wind-down timing, investor communication sequencing, and successor product considerations.
• Go-to-Market Readiness
  • Partner with IR and Global Marketing on the fund narrative framework for each product, defining the core investment thesis, differentiated positioning, and key messages.
  • Define go-to-market readiness criteria for each new product, including confirmation that fund structure, investor eligibility, fee terms, and regulatory approvals are sufficiently resolved before handoff to IR for capital raising.
  • Maintain an active feedback loop with IR throughout the capital-raising period, incorporating investor and consultant input to refine product positioning, identify structural considerations, and inform the design of successor products.
  • Coordinate compliance and legal review of all marketing collateral and oversee quality control processes.
  • Support IR Project Managers in capital raising, partnering with IR on investor diligence, messaging, and ongoing feedback loops.

• 8–12+ years of experience in institutional investment management, investment banking, or a closely adjacent field; direct experience in product strategy, product development, or fund marketing strongly preferred.
• Track record of developing or launching institutional financial products, including demonstrated ownership of complex, cross-functional workstreams.
• Exceptional ability to translate investment strategy into compelling, investor-ready narratives; strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience operating in matrix organizations and managing stakeholder-intensive processes requiring alignment across multiple senior leaders.
• Familiarity with real estate investment structures, institutional fundraising dynamics, and the fund formation process.
• High financial acumen, including ability to evaluate fund economics, profitability models, and fee structures.
• Strong project management skills and follow-through; comfort with ambiguity in a build-out phase.
• Collaborative, intellectually curious, and direct; able to challenge and be challenged constructively.

This position does not provide visa sponsorship. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Location: On-site – London, GBR.