Director, Technology Product Management

General Summary:

As the Director of Technology Product Management, you will be leading the technology product vision for a portfolio of products aligned to our Digital, Marketing and Retail Media business units. You will be responsible for overseeing the end-to-end vision and leading teams towards accomplishing that vision.

In this role, you will also focus on developing and nurturing relationships with key stakeholders in the product areas for which you are accountable, seeking to understand business challenges and opportunities, and facilitating prioritization setting and technology investment considerations.

Duties & Responsibility:

Leads a team of technical Product Managers and Product Owners towards a common goal supporting their professional development and day to day effectiveness

Oversee the technical product roadmaps, ensuring proper prioritization and technical sequencing, in partnership with the business product management team.

Define and measure outcomes and key results enabling a data driven organization.

Defining and/or collaborating on Product Vision & Strategy

• Develop a deep understanding of stakeholders' business function and processes – and the technologies that they use
• Work with Business Product teams, Technical Product Owners and engineering teams to understand current and future technology capabilities.
• Facilitate the creation of vision & strategy that aligns business needs with technology evolution

Establish and improve product management team practices, including training and development, standardization across the organization, clear epic and story writing, etc.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Understanding of technology acumen (software development methodologies, common technologies – APIs, etc.) as well as business acumen related to digital, marketing and retail media networks.
• Preferred:
  Digital and marketing product expertise – knowledge and successful utilization of digital marketing tools, strategies and best practices.
• Highly skilled in data-driven decision making, with a proven ability to comprehend and utilize data to guide informed strategic decisions. Direct management of product teams, at junior and manager levels
• Ability to teach, mentor, train and enhance skills of direct or cross-functional teams
• Ability to simplify complex things and communicate them concisely and clearly making them easy to understand
• Ability to work alongside, influence and provide informal leadership to senior level stakeholders and cross-functional partners
• Strong written, oral, facilitation and presentation skills
• Relationship builder, strong ability to build new and maintain relationships cross functionally throughout the organization
• Understanding of technology acumen (software development methodologies, common technologies – APIs, etc.) as well as business acumen related to digital, marketing and retail media networks.
• Preferred:
  Digital and marketing product expertise – knowledge and successful utilization of digital marketing tools, strategies and best practices.

Work Experience:

• Strong Technical knowledge with experience in Technical Product Management practices and agile software development
• Strength as a people leader with a proven track record of successfully leading product teams
• Retail experience preferred
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field preferred
• 8 years of experience in end-to-end product management, including multiple examples of landing consumer-facing product impact.
  Preferred:
  Products are specific to digital, marketing or retail media spaces.
• 3 years of experience managing teams of product managers, and partnership with Director-level engineering and UX stakeholders.
• Preferred qualifications: Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration