Product Management Manager, Product COE

The Home Depot•Atlanta, GA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Product Management Manager, Product COE is responsible for leading and developing a team of product managers who define and deliver the tools, workflows, and platform capabilities that shape how Home Depot's engineering organization builds software. Reporting into the Product Center of Excellence and partnering closely with Engineering & UX leadership, this leader ensures their team's product strategy is grounded in a deep understanding of Product, UX, and Engineer needs — from developer tooling and platform experience to workflow efficiency and technical enablement. This role owns talent development for their product managers, sets the bar for product craft and stakeholder engagement, and acts as the connective tissue between the Product COE's standards and the specific priorities of the Engineering Experience portfolio. Success in this role means a PM team that is technically fluent, outcome-driven, and trusted by engineering partners as a strategic extension of their own leadership.

Requirements

Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
5+ years of product management experience, including 2+ years directly managing product managers
Demonstrated experience partnering with or working within engineering/platform/developer tooling organizations
Strong technical fluency — comfortable in conversations about developer workflows, platform architecture, CI/CD, or internal tooling, even without a hands-on engineering background
Experience presenting to and influencing senior technical and business leadership
Proficiency in identifying goals, metrics, and analytics to measure product value — and translating complex data outputs into clear business narratives
Proficiency working in a fast-paced, fluid environment where priorities shift regularly and ambiguity is high
Proficiency communicating with and influencing both functional and technical team members at all levels of the organization
Proficiency working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional modern product team spanning PM, Technology, UX, and Data Science
Experience translating ambiguous business questions into structured data requirements that data science and engineering teams can execute against
Proficiency in conducting user research and testing to understand stakeholder needs — including the needs of executive audiences consuming performance insights
Experience conducting competitive research and analysis
Comfort with data fluency expectations — able to interrogate analytical outputs, ask the right questions of data science partners, and maintain accountability for insight quality and accuracy
Experience guiding more junior team members through Product Management fundamentals in a professional setting
Experience balancing workloads across teams
Proficiency in active listening and communicating at all levels while gracefully managing expectations across multiple stakeholders
Experience managing and growing team members in a professional setting
The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Nice To Haves

No additional education
No additional years of experience
None

Responsibilities

Looks across product teams and feature sets with a focus on alignment and dependencies
Gains a thorough understanding of customer and associate needs, both existing and potential, and uses that knowledge to help deliver enterprise products that provide Home Depot customers and associates with an unparalleled shopping experience
Translates business goals and end user needs into product strategy and clearly communicates direction and product priorities to the product team and business partners
Meets with users and stakeholders as needed to understand processes, pain points and system waste in order to identify where to improve the user experience
Creates epics to drive improvements to product vision, features and back end systems, and adjusts for new business models
Determines value to the business of anticipated product updates
Identifies goals, metrics and appropriate analytics to measure the performance of products and continually makes recommendations and refinements to products based on learnings
Reviews recommended solutions and work of product team to ensure products are aligned with company, stakeholder and end user priorities
Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
Removes roadblocks and obstacles that may impair product teams to help ensure delivery of the product in order to meet strategic, financial and technical goals
Receives and prioritizes incoming requests from business partners and stakeholders while keeping in mind the business strategy, product vision and user needs
Provides regular updates to leadership regarding progress of products within portfolio
Provides leadership, mentoring and coaching to Product Managers
Attracts, retains and develops top talent to build a world class Product Management Team
Conducts annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback
Fosters collaboration with team members (Engineering, UX, etc.) to drive value and identify and resolve impediments
Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the product, empathizing with and understanding user needs
Works with the product team to continuously assess progress, disseminate lessons learned and understand next steps
Manages cross functional team and stakeholder expectations to execute on product strategy and provides education to requestors to determine prioritization based on tangible benefits and/or user experience
Guides more junior team members in strategy, alignment, analysis and execution tasks
Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)