About the position
The Product Management Manager will play a pivotal role in driving Product excellence by overseeing and guiding a team of CREST (Coaching for Results, Experiences, Speed and Teams) coaches, who are responsible for working with balanced teams and leaders, consisting of product management, user experience, engineering, etc. This position involves assessing balanced teams' ability to achieve business goals and customer outcomes, identifying opportunity areas, and fostering continuous improvement through tailored coaching programs and workshops. This role will leverage extensive experience in Agile methodologies within highly matrixed organizations to ensure the delivery of value and data-driven results. Additionally, this role requires serving as a trusted, unbiased advisor to leadership, providing strategic insights on building and sustaining high-performing Product teams. This position demands a proactive approach to leadership, a deep understanding of Agile practices, and a commitment to fostering a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration.
Responsibilities
- Looks across product teams and feature sets with a focus on alignment and dependencies.
- Gains a thorough understanding of customer and associate needs, both existing and potential, and uses that knowledge to help deliver enterprise products that provide Home Depot customers and associates with an unparalleled shopping experience.
- Translates business goals and end user needs into product strategy and clearly communicates direction and product priorities to the product team and business partners.
- Meets with users and stakeholders as needed to understand processes, pain points and system waste in order to identify where to improve the user experience.
- Creates epics to drive improvements to product vision, features and back end systems, and adjusts for new business models.
- Determines value to the business of anticipated product updates.
- Identifies goals, metrics and appropriate analytics to measure the performance of products and continually makes recommendations and refinements to products based on learnings.
- Reviews recommended solutions and work of product team to ensure products are aligned with company, stakeholder and end user priorities.
- Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met.
- Removes roadblocks and obstacles that may impair product teams to help ensure delivery of the product in order to meet strategic, financial and technical goals.
- Receives and prioritizes incoming requests from business partners and stakeholders while keeping in mind the business strategy, product vision and user needs.
- Provides regular updates to leadership regarding progress of products within portfolio.
- 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 and identify and resolve impediments.
- Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices.
- Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the product, empathizing with and understanding user needs.
- Works with the product team to continuously assess progress, disseminate lessons learned and understand next steps.
- Manages cross functional team and stakeholder expectations to execute on product strategy and provides education to requestors to determine prioritization based on tangible benefits and/or user experience.
- Guides more 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).
Requirements
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
- 5-7 years of relevant work experience.
- Proven experience as an enterprise coach or similar role, with a strong background in Agile methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a team of senior coaches, providing guidance and support to ensure their success.
- Proficiency in working as a Product Manager in a modern software development based enterprise environment and overseeing multiple products.
- Proficiency in modern software development product management practices and agile methodologies, specifically the extreme programming (XP) principles of paired programming, test driven development, and continuous deployment.
- Proficiency in 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.
- Proficiency in working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern software design and development team.
- Proficiency in creating, prioritizing and accepting epics and user stories.
- Proficiency in conducting user research and testing to understand needs.
- Proficiency in identifying goals, metrics and analytics to measure product value.
- Experience conducting competitive research and analysis.
- Experience guiding more junior team members through Product Management fundamentals in a professional setting.
- Experience balancing workloads across teams.
- Proficiency in active listening communicating at all levels (Executive Leadership Team, store associates, etc.) while gracefully managing expectations of multiple stakeholders.
- Experience managing and growing team members in a professional setting.
