About the position
The Product Management Sr. Manager is responsible for attracting, retaining and developing top talent focused on assessing market needs and inspiring cross-functional product teams to find the fastest way to achieve value around those needs. The Product Management Sr. Manager focuses on guiding and executing the delivery of business value to drive sales, improve efficiency and improve customer satisfaction through the production of quality products. Within their designated enterprise product line, Sr. Managers work closely with teams of developers, designers and business partners. They guide in-depth business reviews, communicate and present across all levels of the organization and support cross-functional product teams. The Product Management Sr. Manager leads the strategy to deliver quality products that add value. The Sr. Manager is skilled and experienced in generating innovative ideas for growth within their respective areas and across the Product Management organization. The Product Management Sr. Manager must exhibit the ability to lead managers and their teams and drive change management and process improvement. The Product Management Sr. Manager often leads senior-level Product Managers and/or leads teams of Product Managers that are responsible for higher-profile, more impactful products.
Responsibilities
- Looks across product teams and feature sets with a focus on alignment and dependencies.
- Sets the overall product vision and strategies for the enterprise product through an understanding of customer and associate needs.
- Applies domain expertise to provide thought leadership and translate vision into action to drive business growth.
- Collaborates across the enterprise to create alignment between products to provide a seamless user experience.
- Understands financial and business impact of proposed product updates and activities within portfolio.
- Identifies goals, metrics and appropriate analytics to measure the performance of the product and its individual features.
- Participates in and influences development of enterprise technology roadmaps.
- Drives product development by reviewing performance and directing work efforts of product teams.
- Documents, reviews and validates to meet quality and change control standards.
- Resolves issues within or across product teams that may impair teams from delivery of a quality product.
- Provides guidance on design of products while balancing dependencies and integration with other products.
- Makes suggestions to drive operational excellence, create internal customer satisfaction and meet operational metrics.
- 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, identify and resolve impediments.
Requirements
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
- 6-8 years of relevant work experience.
- Mastery of working as a Product Manager in a modern software development based enterprise environment.
- Mastery of modern software development product management practices and agile methodologies.
- Proficiency in communicating with and influencing functional and technical team members at all levels in the organization.
- Proficiency in creating, prioritizing and accepting user stories.
- Proficiency in conducting user research and testing to understand needs.
- Proficiency in conducting competitive research and analysis.
Nice-to-haves
- Mastery of working in a fast paced, fluid environment where priorities shift on a regular basis.
- Mastery of identifying goals, metrics and analytics to measure product value.
- Proficiency in guiding more junior team members through Product Management fundamentals.
