About the position
We're looking for a Technical Product Manager to join the Equifax Technology team; you will provide the technical thought leadership to the product team, bridging the gap between idea and development, advancing technologies/concepts and seeking cross business unit collaboration on solutions. You will develop a formal global platform product roadmap that will allow for teams to reuse services across the business units to expedite speed to delivery. You will partner with your peers across Equifax to help define product strategy, working closely with business partners, engineering leaders and data & analytics leaders. You will be responsible for clearly setting the product prioritization with a balance of near-term deliverables and longer-term investment in technology platforms. You will partner with corporate development to assess M&A opportunities to ensure they are a strategic fit across Equifax's product offerings and develop plans on how they integrate within the technology stack. You will also regularly assess risks, anticipate bottlenecks, manage escalations and make trade-offs stabilizing product needs against constraints. Your passion, drive and intellect will inspire thoughtful behavior that maximizes value for customers and benefit to greater enterprise.
Responsibilities
- Own overall Market Opportunity Assessment for product and product lines capabilities managed.
- Demonstrate deep understanding of customer capability and product needs through stakeholder engagement, market and industry research and analysis.
- Use strong knowledge of competitive landscape, market trends and industry research to anticipate, articulate and drive high-potential opportunities.
- Lead validation through review and testing of concepts with internal users and external customers.
- Provide inputs for Product line and BU strategy and planning sessions around feasibility of big bets.
- Articulate the vision and strategy of their product/product line in alignment with the larger strategy and vision of the BU/EFX.
- Foster innovation by bringing up new problems, encouraging new ways to solve existing problems, and valuing learning.
- Define and establish objectives and track and manage multiple products through Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
- Participate in the process of translating product line vision & strategy into a shorter term execution plan.
- Drive the process to determine the right delivery increments that balance commercial and technical goals.
- Provide inputs in the evaluation of delivery alternatives including build, buy and partner.
- Drive development of business cases and creation of product roadmap used in planning sessions.
- Lead the collection and documentation of Business/Technical requirements for product development.
- Collaborate with delivery partners to identify, document and resolve critical trade-offs.
- Drive collaboration with internal partners for delivery, including supporting documentation, demos and training.
- Collect and process feedback from the different increment demos to adjust and evolve the product roadmap.
- Drive product engagement and satisfaction and manage the product's performance.
- Assess monitored product adoption and usage and engage in the collection of customer feedback.
- Lead ongoing product management of product offerings to ensure new capabilities meet customer/market needs.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline strongly preferred; equivalent experience may be considered.
- 7+ years of related product management experience in a cloud-based and/or SaaS environment.
- Proven experience leading large initiatives with pragmatic marketing frameworks, Lean product management, and Agile concepts.
- Demonstrated experience understanding and driving financial performance (P&L) for product initiatives.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience leading large initiatives with data structures, data analytics and AI concepts strongly preferred.
- Cloud certification strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to lead in a highly matrixed organization strongly desired.
- Team lead experience or demonstrated capabilities strongly desired.
