Sr. Director Product & Design - Corporate Functions

DICK'S Sporting Goods

3d • $153,700 - $285,300

About The Position

As the Senior Director – Corporate Systems, you are responsible for defining the enterprise systems vision for the Finance, HR, and Real Estate domains, as well as ensuring these platforms effectively support the broader needs of the organization. You are the “voice of the corporate systems,” deeply understanding stakeholder requirements, regulatory obligations, operational workflows, and enterprise data needs to ensure they are incorporated into and prioritized within the roadmap, guided by business outcomes and measurable results.
You will lead the development of the corporate systems roadmap, setting direction and priorities across each functional domain. Additionally, you will be accountable for delivering the platforms, tools, and integrations that enable critical enterprise capabilities across Accounting & Finance, People Operations, Payroll, Workforce Management, Real Estate, Store Development, and our Foundational Technology teams.
The role requires a strategic, operational, and execution‑focused leader who is highly motivated and accountable for delivering stable, scalable, and efficient systems that drive enterprise KPIs, including financial accuracy, operational efficiency, compliance, employee experience, and cost optimization. You will lead the Corporate Systems team and partner closely with Engineering, Executive Management, and Business stakeholders, bringing cohesion and coordination to enterprise initiatives by blending long‑term strategy with pragmatic problem‑solving.
You must operate at both levels: strategically identifying opportunities for modernization, automation, and simplification, while tactically resolving system gaps, process inefficiencies, and business challenges that arise in Finance, HR, and Real Estate operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 7 - 10 years experience
• 7+ years of Product leadership, with preference of product management or digital strategy within large cross functional retail environments

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for your area of focus, distilling insights, data, and requests into an actionable vision inclusive of customer and business partners needs to build both incremental and innovative experiences for your customers, ensuring that value is delivered early, often, and in-sync with customer goals.
• Prioritize features to support the enterprise cross-functional roadmap across all product groups, staying up to date on industry trends and best practices in data and analytics and incorporating them into the strategy and execution.
• Ensure a business outcome is achieved and customers receive a product that provides value, whether it’s an MVP or mature product with a new feature.
• Understand the inter-relations of our business – financial, marketing, sales, legal, partnerships, customer service, stores, technical capabilities, user experience.
• Be accountable for results, including maximizing metrics, managing expectations, addressing customer feedback, or prioritizing the backlog.
• Know your numbers, competitors, who is doing what, the next big thing, suggest innovative ideas to POC and constantly strive to increase revenue and conversion.
• Provide regular reporting to executive management along with strategies to constantly improve the numbers, hit revenue goals, and maximize return on investment.
• Make tough decisions, whether it is a go/no-go decision, balancing risks versus reward, pros/cons, dependencies, cost/benefit analysis, or ROI of resource investment, standing behind your decision with facts and data.
• Recognize when to change course and reverse a decision, subscribing to the philosophy of learning fast, and moving on.
• Manage a multimillion-dollar capital and professional services budget; forecasting and creating business cases for additional funding, vendor selection and staff expansion.
• Lead the development and execution of the data and analytics roadmap, inclusive of strategic planning sessions and annual and quarterly planning sessions.
• Oversee the implementation and adherence to data governance and data lifecycle management processes.
• Manage and at times create accurate user stories and prioritize the backlog; working with the team to groom, refine, and ultimately deliver the feature.
• Be the critical partner across the organization, aligning with key Business stakeholders and roadmaps and KPIs, working with Engineering to ensure that data infrastructure and tools are in place to support data-driven initiatives and linking with Program and Portfolio team to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery against prioritized initiatives.
• Participate in standups, planning sessions, demos, and retrospectives, fostering team collaboration, co-creation, and open communication.
• Formulate hypothesis to A/B test, prototype, or research, continually refining the product until desired outcome is achieved.
• Ensure successful tests are translated into new site features.
• Accountable for the management, selection, budget and oversight of a portfolio of 3rd party vendor partners.
• Regularly hold business reviews, monitor SLAs, manage RFPs, negotiate contracts and manage budgets for vendor services.
• Act as an agent of change within your team, organization, and leading to embrace new methodologies, processes, efficiencies and challenging the status quo.
• Constantly push and ask why even if it’s to Senior Executives.
• Be a strong communicator and partner, capable of influencing a team of designers, developers, stakeholders, and executives to achieve value early and often.
• Evangelize your team’s services and roadmap; distill complex technical concepts into plain language for stakeholders, and advocate for the customer.
• Ensure alignment across your group and the Product organization.
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define and ensure successful delivery of our consumer and associate facing Commerce experiences.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and provide education to requestors on prioritization, ROI, and roadmap.
• Lead the team of Product Managers, Designers and Analysts, including setting goals and providing guidance and mentorship.

Benefits

• competitive total rewards package that could include other components such as: incentive, equity and benefits.
• All state paid leave requirements.
• generous suite of benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director