Director, Technology Product Management (Marketing)

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• 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.
• Define and/or collaborate on Product Vision & Strategy.
• Develop a deep understanding of stakeholders' business functions and processes, and the technologies 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, and clear epic and story writing.

Requirements

• Curiosity and a passion to learn new things.
• 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.
• Strong technical knowledge with experience in Technical Product Management practices and agile software development.
• Experience 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.
• 3 years of experience managing teams of product managers, and partnership with Director-level engineering and UX stakeholders.
• Preferred qualifications include Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration.

Nice to Have

• Digital and marketing product expertise - knowledge and successful utilization of digital marketing tools, strategies and best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field.
• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration (preferred).
• 8 years of experience in end-to-end product management.
• 3 years of experience managing teams of product managers.