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Position Purpose:
Are you interested in driving product management excellence for world's largest home improvement retailer? Do aspire to lead others to deliver true value based on customer backed approaches? Does utilizing your entrepreneurial spirit to reinvent the way strategy and customer needs are translated into products feel like your calling?
If you are passionate and seasoned product leader yearning to transform experiences for millions of customers and thousands of passionate associates, we are looking for you to join The Home Depot leadership team as a Senior Director of Product Management. For a specific business domain, the Senior Director of Product Management develops and drives alignment of the overall product management strategy and promotes and drives product management excellence. This role is responsible for collaborating with business and technology partners to plan for and achieve goals of the associated business domain and for supporting the enterprise roadmap. This role uses domain expertise, product management excellence, strategic planning, and knowledge of market and industry trends to guide the delivery of business value and to drive sales, improve efficiency and improve customer satisfaction. The Senior Director of Product Management ensures that value-driven, customer supported, and data driven product road maps are effectively prioritized and sequenced to build and optimize seamless shopping experiences and journeys that delight customers and associates. Senior Directors are also responsible for guiding others in execution and professional development and for attracting, retaining, and developing top talent.
Key Responsibilities:
- 40% Strategy & Planning:
- Applies business domain and product management expertise to drive the overall product strategy for a particular business domain, create growth for the business, and deliver value for our customers
- Drives the prioritization, sequencing and execution of product roadmap to ensure that capital is effectively deployed
- Partners with functional and technical leaders to identify and plan for the capabilities necessary to deliver on the product roadmap for the associated business domain
- Provides input into Enterprise Product Roadmap planning to ensure alignment across the enterprise
- Stays abreast of research and market analysis, meets with third party vendors, and maintains knowledge of business domain, industry innovations, technology platforms, and product management best practices
- Understands financial and business impacts product strategy decisions and prioritizes updates to support the enterprise roadmap
- Establishes and nurtures strategic vendor relationships; owns strategic vendor relationships as needed to align to domain, portfolio, and enterprise strategic objectives
- 20% Operations:
- Drives product development quality by reviewing performance and directing work efforts to ensure product management practices are adhered to and delivered in alignment with company, stakeholder and end-user priorities
- Understands enterprise goals and KPIs to ensure value is delivered against them
- Consistently monitors product-related metrics and pivots as necessary to realize intended value
- Drives operational excellence to create internal customer satisfaction and meet operational metrics
- Enables consistent measurement and transparent visibility of results, dependencies, and connection points across multiple stakeholders at all levels in the organization
- 20% Enablement:
- Establishes and refines a highly effective and tactfully executed product management discipline for the associated business domain
- Supports successful delivery of product management practices by advocating for the position of product management as it relates to customer backed design and prioritizing work based on value
- Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by empathizing with and understanding user needs and becoming the domain expert
- Champions business domain and associated product management vision and strategy
- Creates a healthy team culture of happy and productive associates who understand the vision and strategy and are empowered to make the decisions necessary to execute and meet clearly defined and communicated metrics
- Drives innovation with her/his team and empowers them to make decisions
- 20% People Development:
- Shapes and supports product management leaders (direct reports) who can strengthen The Home Depot's product management bench strength, improve upon existing capabilities, and develop others who understand and advocate for product management excellence across the enterprise
- Attracts, retains, develops and motivates product management talent
- Manages and coordinates strategic direction for staff
- Provides leadership, mentoring and coaching to direct reports
- Conducts annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
- Reports to Chief Product and Experience Officer.
- This role has 6 direct reports.
Travel Requirements:
- Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.
Physical Requirements:
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions:
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proficient in leading a successful product team within a fast-paced, multi-division, national company
- Proficient in defining, communicating and driving value propositions, success metrics and outcomes
- Deep domain expertise in associated business domain
- Proficient in shaping, aligning and guiding execution of strategic direction for domain or significant portfolio segment
- Proficient in utilizing deep market and industry knowledge to achieve strategic objectives
- Ability to concisely, confidently and effectively communicate, advocate for, and demonstrate the value of product management
- Proficient in communicating, building influence and developing relationships with functional and technical leaders across all levels in the organization
- Proficient in selecting and leading strategic vendor relationships or acting as the primary point of contact for strategic partnerships
- Proficient in managing and developing direct reports who lead others
Minimum Education:
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Preferred Education:
- No additional education
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
- 8
Preferred Years of Work Experience:
- No additional years of experience
Minimum Leadership Experience:
- None
Preferred Leadership Experience:
- None
Certifications:
- None
Competencies:
- None
