Lead Product Manager

In This Role, You Will

• Lead complex initiatives including establishing marketing programs for new products or enhancements
• Conduct market research and market results-oriented analysis for major products and services
• Review and analyze complex major product lines and services
• Implement change delivery solutions for the portfolios technology process work of low to moderate complexity
• Make decisions in complex and multi-faceted situations of global market dynamics, trends, and regulatory impact
• Oversee risk management to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives
• Collaborate and consult with managers, stakeholders, scrum masters, project managers, and delivery team to resolve issues and achieve project goals
• Lead projects, teams, or serve as a mentor to less experienced staff
• As a Product Owner for Home Lending business, you will bring a strategic mindset and passion for experimentation as you work closely with Product Managers and collaborate with a variety of agile delivery teams, partners, and stakeholders across the organization to employ product management and agile techniques to optimize products for our customers. You will help drive the delivery of outcomes to the marketplace through ownership of the product backlog inclusive of prioritization, transparency into upcoming work, setting of product goals, and communication to support shared understanding.
  

Responsibilities:

• Employ a customer obsessed mindset and product management techniques to actively pursue customer engagement and a deep knowledge of customer behavior to act as their voice in discovery and product refinement
• Apply a working knowledge of Agile delivery frameworks, such as Scrum or Kanban, in a multi-team environment to enable the realization of outcomes from discovery through delivery to the market
• Orchestrate discovery practices, including testing and experimentation, to create a shared understanding of the technology domain, business strategy, and customer desire in the marketplace in partnership with design and engineering partners across cross-functional areas
• Collaborate with Product Managers and stakeholders to contribute to and influence overall product vision and roadmap to convey desired outcomes through the product backlog
• Ability to exercise effective product backlog management including prioritization in alignment with OKRs to deliver the greatest value-based outcomes in alignment with overall product strategy and setting of the product goal
• Attend key Agile events for the product area to connect product strategy to the team and provide subject matter expertise
• Entrusted to make decisions for their product area such as defining acceptance criteria, acceptance of stories and determining when the solution delivered will meet the definition of done to maximize value and iterative learnings from the team
  
• Actively seek to utilize data mining and perform analysis to uncover data driven insights and support recommendations of necessary actions
• Engage with cross-functional experts to ensure solutions are business ready from risk, legal, compliance, and policy perspectives
  

Characteristics displayed in this role:

• Displays an agile mindset to adapt to changing customer needs, business strategies, and technology environments to deliver in a way that meets the demands of the current and future marketplace
• Embraces innovation, collaboration, and experimentation to uncover new and unique opportunities for product advancement
• Champions an environment of trust, safety, candor, and cohesiveness with the team, customers, and stakeholders
• Strong ability to leverage various communication methods and styles across varying levels and sizes of audiences to convey the vision of the product and address critical decision points to sustain team, customer, and stakeholder excitement around the product
• Aptness for self-management, problem-solving, and critical decision making in an efficient manner using strong analytical thinking in a complex matrixed environment
• Ability to use empathy to understand customer and end user needs and translate into delivery themes
• Skillful facilitation of high impact conversations with the ability to navigate conflict and negotiate for an outcome that balances the needs of the business
  

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Product Management, product development, strategic planning, process management, change delivery experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
  

Desired Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience with/within [a financial services organization, digital, etc; based on LOB specific needs for their product/product area]
• Experience with product and backlog management in an environment using a scaled framework such as LeSS

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  Strong data analytics skills
• Thorough knowledge of competitive markets, operations and various products and services
• Familiarity with human-centered design models
• Experience with direct involvement in prototyping activities
• Knowledge of software development workflow
• Background in leading through transformation
  

Posting End Date:
6 Feb 2024

• Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
  

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R-325653-1