Director, Product - Talent

Thrivent•Minneapolis, MN

17d

About The Position

The Product Director leads a portfolio of talent-focused experience products, spanning Performance Management and Talent Acquisition, with a forward-looking focus that includes emerging capabilities such as Talent Management and Learning & Development. This role sets the strategic vision, experience direction, and roadmap across the portfolio, aligning multiple product teams around a unified talent strategy. This position has accountability for team planning and management, prioritization and sequencing across the portfolio, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality work across multiple delivery teams. Product Directors take an entrepreneurial view of their role within the enterprise in order to deliver desired business outcomes and value, working closely with product teams that include design, product, business, and technology experts.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
10+ years relevant business experience, including in product manager role or similar
Understand fundamentals of iterative development, software development process and procedures
Expertise in the principles of Agile Product Management, stakeholder management, market and user research, technology management, and process design.
High level of organization and attention to detail
Passion and understanding of new technology and trends.
Excellent communication, collaboration and influence skills among all organizational levels; strong facilitation and executive communications skills.

Nice To Haves

Certified Product Manager or similar certification
Has prior Supervisory experience
Proven success developing business cases, roadmaps, and enterprise level strategy
Strong ability to effectively manage and resolve conflicting priorities
Expertise in developing and delivering product strategy, articulated in terms of value and outcomes with relevant and compelling metrics and measurements.
Expertise with foundational product management tools, techniques and principles across discovery, design, build, release, and measure cycle.
Proven success in developing and leading product teams in multiple contexts.
Proven experience in leading and influencing cross-functional teams
Demonstrated experience with user interface design and best practices for usability.
Experience leading large, complex organizational initiatives
Advanced skills in MS Office Suite with particular emphasis on Excel and Powerpoint
Adept at financial management to administer budgets across multiple products and ensure the product meets its requirements for return on investment

Responsibilities

Leads product teams; collaborate with other product, business, and technology leaders to ensure business outcomes and value are achieved through best-in-class product management practices and iterative software development techniques
Leads a portfolio of product solutions, accountable for team planning and management, prioritization, and sequencing across the portfolio. Ensures delivery of high-quality work across multiple teams throughout the product lifecycle
Is a thought leader for the company and the product teams they are responsible for, in terms of the market context and go-to market strategy for their product, a best in class product management tools and techniques and human centered design principles to achieve product portfolio value
Work with leaders, individual contributors, and teams to help them understand the Thrivent Operating Model and adopt a product mindset, develop critical Product Management skills, and learn new tactics to define and form products and product teams. (more content could include: Support leaders to use business strategy to define products and outcomes that align, structuring and staffing teams to own those products and outcomes. . Upskill PMs and POs, setting new product teams up for success to build outcome-focused customer-centric features using best practices.)
Fosters and facilitates collaboration and empowerment across multiple product teams.
Drives innovation by thinking creatively about the business and the product, and creates an environment where their product owners and managers can do the same
Sets, manages, and monitors appropriate measurement strategies to tell the story of product performance and value delivery, including financial impacts, risks, experiments, and data
Understands and communicates the complexity of resource capacity and demand across multiple product teams, advocating for shifts in resource models as necessary to meet the demands of the business strategy.
Engages with customers and users on a regular basis to uncover implicit and explicit needs, and translate to product hypothesis which are tested and refined to deliver solutions
Collaborates and influences to resolve conflicts in a constructive manner when they arise
Acquires, maintains, and applies advances knowledge of the business, its products and processes, and an academic understanding of Product Management and Human Centered Design principles
Recruits, develops, and sustains a high-performing team while promoting a culture of shared accountability, operational excellence, and partnership across the organization.
Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable.
Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients.
Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.