Group Product Manager – Corporate Support Services

About the role

McCarthy Holdings, Inc. (McCarthy) is the holding entity for McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., the oldest privately-held national construction company in America, and Castle Contracting. McCarthy provides the crucial business infrastructure for these entities and connects the day-to-day operations to ensure seamless operations across the business. Repeatedly honored as a great place to work and healthiest employer, McCarthy is a 100 percent employee-owned company. At McCarthy, we are committed to sustaining a culture that delivers great experiences for everyone. This begins with developing high-performing individuals and teams through our award-winning learning and development programs, best-in-class Total Rewards benefits, and our inclusive culture aligned with our core values: Genuine. We, Not I. All In.

How do McCarthy partners define our culture? We Live Our Core Values: We do whatever it takes to deliver on our promises with honesty and integrity. We are Employee Owned: We are personally invested in building the things people need in our communities. We Feel Like a Family: We value genuine connections and help each other succeed in an inclusive environment. We are Builders: We respect the work we do and everyone who helps make it happen safely.

The Group Product Manager owns the strategy, roadmap, lifecycle, and value delivery for a portfolio of digital products that support McCarthy’s business strategy. This is a people-leader role responsible for building, leading, and developing a high-performing product management team (Product Leads and Product Analysts) while ensuring consistent product practice, delivery quality, and stakeholder outcomes. This role turns business priorities into clear product direction, managing trade-offs across features, technical debt, and risks so products remain usable, reliable, and valuable over time.

Responsibilities

• Defines and maintains product vision and product roadmaps aligned to business and digital strategies.
• Leads and coaches Product Leads and Product Analysts, aligning work and capacity to the product portfolio roadmap and setting clear practice and quality standards.
• Owns people management for the product management team, including hiring and onboarding, role clarity, performance management, coaching, and career development.
• Establishes and evolves team operating rhythms (planning, refinement, roadmap reviews, stakeholder touchpoints) to improve predictability, transparency, and throughput across the portfolio.
• Drives capability development across the team by setting expectations for discovery, backlog quality, outcome-based delivery, and stakeholder communication, and by providing feedback and targeted growth opportunities.
• Manages team capacity and skills mix across the portfolio, identifying resourcing gaps, succession needs, and development plans to support near-term delivery and long-term sustainability.
• Effectively prioritizes work and clearly communicates roadmap decisions, trade-offs, and timelines with business partners.
• Translates approved Ignite and Digital Governance decisions into executable roadmaps and capacity plans.
• Owns effective management of product backlogs so they reflect roadmap priorities and contain outcome-based, well-defined work with appropriate acceptance criteria.
• Monitors product health using metrics and feedback and manages key risks and Tier-2 issues through durable product or process improvements.
• Leads major lifecycle changes (upgrades, refactors, consolidations, rationalization) in line with architecture and platform standards to protect long-term product integrity and value.
• Partners with Digital Business Partners to route demand to existing products where possible or define net-new solutions, providing portfolio context and limiting unnecessary sprawl.
• Provides feasibility, portfolio fit, and cost and effort estimates for investment decisions related to assigned products.
• Builds strong relationships with internal partners and manages product-related vendors, ensuring alignment with McCarthy standards and product strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience; construction/engineering industry experience is a plus.
• Minimum 8 years in digital product management, including 3+ years leading Product Leads and/or Product Analysts and managing a portfolio or domain of products.
• Proven ability to own product/portfolio strategy, roadmap, lifecycle, and value delivery, turning business priorities into clear product direction and trade‑off decisions.
• Demonstrated track record building, developing, and coaching high-performing product teams, with clear goals, standards, and growth plans.
• Experience designing and evolving product operating rhythms (planning, backlog refinement, roadmap reviews, stakeholder touchpoints) and standardizing product practices across teams.
• Evidence of innovation: challenging current-state processes/solutions and delivering measurable improvements in efficiency, quality, or user experience.
• Strong data- and metrics-driven mindset, using adoption, utilization, incident trends, and feedback to guide roadmap and investment decisions.
• Consistent record of reliable execution, including managing technical debt, reducing repeat incidents, and protecting long-term product integrity and stability.
• Excellent communication and systems thinking skills, able to simplify complex, cross-product processes and data flows for diverse audiences.