Assistant Director Product Management

About the Job
Lead several product managers who are asked to solve hard problems for both customers and the business. Work closely with engineering and design as the key product leaders responsible for the execution, shipping, and ongoing maintenance of digital products.

What You'll Do

• Vision: Sets the mid-term (1-2 year) vision of a product portfolio (multiple products) including how they will produce business outcomes.

• Responsible for cultivating an environment of understanding the products.

• Manage the full product life cycle from strategic planning, building and execution, maintenance and support to end of life retirement.

• Goals: Sets the product objectives and key results for a product.

• Align the engineering and design team around a common set of goals based on shipping product features.

• Roadmap: Accountable for providing high-level direction that illustrates the epics and features that will be delivered across a portfolio of products or platforms and how it integrates with other cross functional team efforts.

• Requirements: Accountable for gathering higher level, more complex product requirements and having a general understanding/knowledge of products they are responsible for.

• Review and validate requirements gathered within the team.

• Define the Product: Identify and validate problems and/or opportunities for multiple user groups/scenarios across the company.

• Align stakeholders and document high-level business requirements or manage vendor relationships and any applicable request for proposal (RFP) or proof of concept (POC) processes.

• Communication: Collaborate cross functionally with business partners including engineering, marketing, design and sales to allow for the smooth and efficient flow of product activities.

• Prioritization: Responsible for setting long-term goals for both products and team members.

• Accountable for helping teams track progress against Key Results and help balance priorities with corporate strategic initiatives or the introduction of new products.

• Leadership: Create the future by fostering an engaging environment and encouraging accountability and development.

• Break down barriers so individuals and teams can be accountable and responsible for doing their best.

• Align employees' passions to business value outcomes.

• Data Driven: Build a culture of making data driven decisions that influence business, engineering, and other stakeholders to model this behavior.

Skills You Have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical, business or financial field.

• 9+ years of working as a product manager on technology-powered product teams.

• Working knowledge of modern techniques in product discovery and delivery.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including experience in high-level business discussions and deep technical discussions.

• Experience using Business Intelligence dashboards and tools (Tableau, Power BI, Looker, etc.).

• 3+ years of formal people management experience managing other product managers.

• Ability to work in a matrix organization.

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