About the Role
As a Director of Product Management, you will build and oversee digital product delivery for various clients. This role will heavily collaborate with leadership of digital products to understand, communicate, and implement user-centric experiences in partnership with various disciplines including experience, data and analytics, marketing, and technology to achieve product and business goals. You will manage a team to ensure that roadmaps are developed and delivered effectively for clients.
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Responsibilities
Your Impact
- Set strategy for a digital product and communicate that strategy to teams and other partners
- Align product strategy to other organizational goals
- Turn strategy into executable product roadmaps
- Build understanding of digital product’s value to core users
- Identify core user journeys with the product
- Incorporate domain roadmaps, such as Experience and Analytics, into the product roadmap
- Gather and build insights from various inputs, including quantitative data, qualitative data, user testing programs, and market research, to ensure the product roadmap is data-driven
- Use data to develop hypotheses and business cases
- Be accountable for digital product performance against goals and KPIs
- Manage stakeholder intake request expectations and lead partners through the intake process
- Lead decisions involving product team ownership, structure, and costs
- Manage a team of Digital Product Managers
- Lead individual Product Teams to communicate the overall vision, digital product roadmap, and goals
- Collaborate with product owners to incorporate knowledge and data into the feedback loop and allow for influence of the roadmap
- Work with portfolio and technology teams to ensure roadmaps are prioritized and delivered according to plan
- Escalate roadmap impacts and issues to leadership and present findings
Qualifications
Skills & Experience
- Track record of building or owning large digital products or properties, demonstrating that you have shipped digital products
- Demonstrated portfolio of user-centric digital experiences with proven positive impacts on engagement and KPIs
- Significant industry knowledge and expertise within the Financial Services industry
- Experience building and leading digital product scrum teams
- Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams comprised of product managers, project managers/scrum masters, UI/UX professionals, marketers, and engineering teams
- Strong ability to absorb and make sense of large amounts of data to direct decision-making
- Ability to turn complicated inputs into a clear, communicable vision
- Results-oriented individual with strong influencing, problem-solving, and negotiation skills
- Ability to build the right team, focus people, and model/demand integrity
- Outstanding communication and storytelling skills
- Knowledge of current digital web and application standards
Additional Information
Set Yourself Apart With
- Experience in AI-driven product development and machine learning applications
- Knowledge of emerging technologies such as blockchain, AR/VR, and IoT
- Background in scaling digital products in global markets.
