Sr. Manager, Product Management - Marketing Content & Creative Enablement

Home Depot • Atlanta, GA

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About The Position

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger. Position Purpose: 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. This product group is the core engine for all marketing content, owning the strategic Digital Asset Management (DAM), Content Management System (CMS), and the roadmap for new content creation products. 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. This includes ensuring creatives and marketers can build and launch content efficiently for marketing ads, campaigns, and Orange Apron Media, as well as supporting media tools for our in-house studio. Within their designated enterprise product line, Sr. Managers work closely with teams of developers, designers, and business partners (Creative, Integrated Marketing, and Marketing Operations). They guide in-depth business reviews, communicate and present across all levels of the organization, and support cross-functional product teams focused on optimizing the end-to-end content supply chain. The Product Management Sr. Manager leads the strategy to deliver quality products that add value across the content lifecycle. The Sr. Manager is skilled and experienced in generating innovative ideas for growth within their respective areas and across the Product Management organization. They must exhibit the ability to lead managers and their teams, driving change management and process improvement across the core MarTech content platforms. 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.

Requirements

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• 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

• 6-8 years of relevant work experience, at least 5 years in marketing technology (MarTech) platforms, specifically Digital Asset Management (DAM) and Content Management Systems (CMS)
• Proficiency in managing complex vendor relationships and contract negotiations for enterprise MarTech platforms
• Mastery of modern software development product management practices and leading complex product roadmaps using agile methodologies
• Mastery of identifying goals, metrics and analytics to measure product value, including content performance, creative velocity, and asset utilization/governance
• Proficiency in guiding more junior team members through Product Management fundamentals (e.g. creating user stories, conducting competitive research) in a professional setting
• Mastery of working in a fast paced, fluid environment where priorities shift on a regular basis
• Mastery of working as a Product Manager in a modern software development based enterprise environment and overseeing multiple products
• Proficiency in communicating with and influencing functional and technical team members at all levels in the organization
• Mastery of working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern software design and development team
• Proficiency in managing and growing team members in a professional setting

Responsibilities

• Strategy & Planning: 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 thorough an understanding of customer and associate needs, both existing and potential, to provide Home Depot customers and associates with an unparalleled shopping experience 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; prioritizes updates to support the enterprise roadmap; and allocates funding across the products Identifies goals, metrics and appropriate analytics to measure the performance of the product and its individual features, and makes recommendations and refinements to the product based on learnings Contributes to and makes recommendations for strategic plans of the key objectives in a timely and fiscally responsible manner Participates in and influences development of enterprise technology roadmaps Supports and nurtures strategic vendor relationships; recommends ways to influence vendors that align to domain, portfolio, and enterprise strategic objectives
• Delivery & Execution: Drives product development by reviewing performance and directing work efforts of product teams to ensure products are aligned with company, stakeholder and end-user priorities Documents, reviews and validates to meet quality and change control standards Understands enterprise goals and KPIs to deliver value against them Resolves issues within or across product teams that may impair teams from delivery of a quality product in order to meet strategic, financial and technical goals Receives and prioritizes incoming requests from business partners and stakeholders balanced against business strategy, product vision and user needs Provides guidance on design of products while balancing dependencies and integration with other products across the enterprise Reviews and analyzes product metrics to inform strategic and tactical product decisions Makes suggestions to drive operational excellence, create internal customer satisfaction and meet operational metrics
• People: 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 Is an advocate of modern software development practices Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by associating with the product, empathizing with and understanding user needs Works with the product team to assess progress, disseminate lessons learned, and understand next steps Manages cross-functional team and stakeholder expectations to execute product strategy. Educates requestors to determine priority based on tangible benefits and/or user experience Guides 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)

What This Job Offers

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