Senior Vice President, Strategy and Planning, Emerging Product Pillar

TransUnion•White Plains, NY

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The SVP Product Management, Consumer Solutions - Head of S&P and Emerging Products is responsible for creating and delivering the Global growth strategy for Consumer Solutions with an emphasis on delivery growth for the US markets. In addition, this role is responsible for leading emerging products, such as offers. The Head of S&P and Emerging Products, Consumer will be responsible for creating a compelling long term consumer strategy for the consumer business as well as for the delivery of our short term and long term strategic goals. They will be responsible for the ongoing adoption of PDLC and driving best practices and learning across the team globally. In addition to their role as the strategic lead, they will manage the end-to-end product development lifecycle (PDLC) for emerging products, including offers, breach, and Shareable products. Finally this role will develop and deliver the working model with the US Markets – Marketing lead (SVP) for the D2C and Indirect Business to ensure that we deliver high impact solutions for customers and consumers. They will possess deep domain expertise in strategy and product PDLC and be responsible for overall product direction, strategy and planning of a horizontal product capability that serves all regions and industry verticals across TransUnion. You will build and steward the implementation of the product plan, gather voice of the customer, align with vertical leaders and the relevant data & analytics marketplace, define the product roadmap, provide thought leadership and lead the overall core credit solutions product management. You will lead efforts to effectively evolve fundamental capabilities and products such as Offers and Breach to create market-leading, global, and high-growth solutions. You will be responsible for developing the next generation of innovations across monetization and our breach business. You will develop and appraise new products and capability ideas to determine their potential to address customer needs and to achieve high revenue growth. You will also manage strategic relationships with key industry partners that enable Global Consumer Solutions to fulfill its mission. This role will lead, plan and track all phases of the product life cycle, from inception through introduction into the marketplace, working closely with Product Development, Operations, cross-functional support, and other go-to-market teams.

Requirements

Proven senior product leadership with deep domain expertise in consumers solutions to drive reach to consumer across direct and indirect and in global organizations
20 years of progressively more responsible experience in strategy and product roles
Strong management discipline with demonstrated success leading cross-functional product teams
Strong collaborator with a problem-solving, design-thinking, customer-centric mindset; highly curious
Demonstrated knowledge of PDLC
Experience developing product roadmaps
Compelling and effective communication, cross functionally and at all levels, internal and external
Exudes accountability and ownership and is passionate about the problem their products solve
Solid organizational, project management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills with a high degree of comfort managing multiple assignments
Driven by intellectual curiosity and independent thinking with a positive “can-do” attitude

Responsibilities

Develop, communicate and create accountability for the 5+ year global vision and strategy for GCS (Global Consumer Solutions)
Develop, communicate and execute the three-year product roadmap plan for a suite of emerging products, driving growth and innovation
Develop, communicate and create accountability for the plan and roadmap for the D2C business in US markets.
Gather market intelligence on macro-economic and industry trends, consumer behaviors, regulatory changes and hurdles, disruptive innovations, and competitive offerings to validate and refine our product roadmap.
Represent TransUnion as a thought leader and industry expert at industry conferences, in media, etc.
Owns product vision, business prioritization and roadmap; develops business cases and advocates for investment as needed, which includes partnering with Market (revenue) and IT (investment) teams
Spends time with clients capturing VOC and applying design thinking principles to understand their problems and needs; works with data science and product development teams writing comprehensive product requirements and defining solution intent and high-level capabilities
Develop product concepts that leverage internal and external customer feedback and market insights
Products definition with consideration of how to localize into different verticals
Identify technical partnership needs and vendors to deliver integrated solutions
Responsibility for annual product categories roadmap
Lead 3YP strategic planning initiative for Global Consumer Solutions
Participates in Agile development ceremonies, drives PI Objectives and Release content via prioritized Features and Enablers; has scope of authority for setting PI priorities; can say “no” in multiple directions: Stakeholders, Managers and Product Owners; establishes feature acceptance criteria & accepts as done
Thought leader and evangelist for both external and internal audiences
Applies a commercial, user-centric mindset to build robust, market-back GTM strategies that are based on developing targeted needs-based market segments; informs pricing
Prioritize data investments and product development roadmap after considering the input and opportunities presented by the various TransUnion vertical leaders and sales teams
Drive localization needs based on Global product plan and key themes and owns any local products alignment
Leads teams of global product managers (SMEs) that work with product development teams (product owners)
Ensures the successful roll-out of new products to Market & Sales teams, supports the development and delivery of comprehensive product training
Monitors and analyzes product financials, KPIs, customer feedback, and the competitive landscape to identify gaps, weaknesses and opportunities in any part of product delivery
Manages overall product health including the product backlog, ongoing product support and product sunset strategies

Benefits

TransUnion provides flexible benefits including flexible time off for exempt associates, paid time off for non-exempt associates, up to 12 paid holidays per year, health benefits (including medical, dental, and vision plan options and health spending accounts), mental health support, disability benefits, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave, adoption assistance, fertility planning coverage, legal benefits, long-term care insurance, commuter benefits, tuition reimbursement, charity gift matching, employee stock purchase plan, 401(k) retirement savings with employer match, and access to TransUnion’s Employee Resource Groups.
Spousal, domestic partner, and other eligible dependent coverage is available on select health and welfare plans.

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