Product Management Manager

Position

Purpose:

The Product Management Manager is responsible for attracting, retaining and developing top talent focused on assessing market needs and inspiring cross‑functional product teams to find the fastest way to achieve value around those needs. The Product Management Manager focuses on guiding and executing the delivery of business value to drive sales, improve efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction through the production of quality products.

Within their designated enterprise product line, Managers work closely with teams of developers, designers and business partners. They support in-depth business reviews, communicate and present across all levels of the organization, and support cross‑functional product teams.

• 30% Strategy & Planning:
  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
• 40% Delivery & Execution:
  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
• 30% People:
  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 ... (continued list items as in original)

• Typically reports to the Product Management Sr. Manager, Technology Director or Sr. Director.

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

• 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.

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

• 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
• 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
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