Sr Manager, Product Management

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & Planning:
  • Looks across product teams and feature sets with a focus on alignment and dependencies
  • Set the overall product vision and strategies for the enterprise product
  • Thoroughly understands customer and associate needs 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
  • 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
  • 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)

Qualifications

• Must be eighteen years of age or older
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
• 6-8 years of relevant work experience
• Mastery of working as a Product Manager in a modern software development based enterprise environment and overseeing multiple products
• Mastery of modern software development product management practices and agile methodologies, specifically the extreme programming (XP) principles of paired programming, test driven development and continuous deployment
• Mastery of working in a fast paced, fluid environment where priorities shift on a regular basis
• 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 creating, prioritizing and accepting user stories
• Proficiency in conducting user research and testing to understand needs
• Proficiency in identifying goals, metrics and analytics to measure product value
• Proficiency in conducting competitive research and analysis
• Proficiency in guiding more junior team members through Product Management fundamentals in a professional setting
• Proficiency in managing and growing team members in a professional setting