Group Product Manager - People & Culture and Travel & Expense; Houston or San Diego - Houston, TX

Job Description

The Mgr, Group Product - People & Culture and Travel & Expense plays a critical leadership role in shaping the vision, roadmap, and prioritization of Sempra Infrastructure's product portfolio, ensuring alignment with business client value. This role is responsible for developing and executing product strategies across a suite of HR and Travel & Expense related products including:
Success Factors, EC Payroll, Fieldglass, Concur, ADP, and HR Master, while managing a team of Product Owners, and overseeing the full product lifecycle from concept through deployment and ongoing optimization.

Key responsibilities include serving as a "player-coach" by directly managing a suite of products while mentoring and developing Product Owners. The Group Product Manager ensures HR, Contingent Workforce Management and Travel & Expense product roadmaps are aligned with organizational goals and collaborates cross-functionally to drive innovation. Strategic decisions are informed by a deep understanding of market dynamics, client needs, and product capabilities.

This role requires deep partnership with People & Culture and other business clients to define objectives and strategies, and to champion innovation through products and services. The Group Product Manager also oversees product operations and maintenance, ensuring compliance with safety, regulatory, cybersecurity, and legal standards. Additionally, they provide leadership and guidance to Product Owners, focusing on talent development, career coaching, and performance management.

• Defines and communicates group's roadmap and vision across all teams, setting objectives for a 6-12 month time horizon. Communicates this vision to stakeholders, executive level leadership, and Product Owners across group. Identifies key outcomes to meet stakeholder needs with an eye towards innovation and continuous improvement. Manages complex needs across multiple business and IT groups, responsible for suite of products their group represents.
  
  Ensures that group's value delivered is measurable. Owns quarterly planning and roadmaps for group. Proactively champions for new delivery opportunities, collaborating with stakeholders.
• Actively engages with clients and key stakeholders to understand business needs and shape products or services that deliver optimal value across the portfolio. Maintains a well-defined set of features and initiatives to provide clear direction and alignment for product teams. Ensures backlog items are strategically prioritized and structured into a transparent hierarchy-initiatives and features-that is consistently communicated across teams.
• Leads strategic product delivery and stakeholder alignment to ensure alignment with business objectives. Owns the end-to-end delivery and value realization across a portfolio of products, guiding the prioritization of high-impact initiatives, features, and user stories to drive measurable business outcomes. Major initiatives are defined as strategic technology solutions that can be broken down into actionable components for agile execution.
• Validates the completion of major initiatives by confirming they meet end-user requirements. Effectively communicates the value of the product suite and associated work plans, facilitates continuous feedback loops between teams and clients, and provides performance feedback to Product Owners on delivered outcomes.
• Leads cross-functional team, including business analysts, developers, and external partners, by providing strategic direction, motivation, and clear guidance. Responsible for all aspects of employee management, including setting goals, overseeing work, and driving performance. This includes coaching and developing team members, managing training and growth opportunities, and conducting performance evaluations. The role may also include supervising team leads, ensuring consistent leadership across the group.
  
  Through strong people management and vision-setting, the Group Product Manager fosters a high-performing, collaborative, and accountable team culture.
• Performs other duties as assigned (no more than 5% of duties).

Required Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, Business Administration, related field or equivalent training and/or experience.
• Master's Degree or MBA preferred

Experience

• Typically requires 8 years of related experience.

Knowledge,

Skills and Abilities

• 7+ years Managing solution delivery and/or enterprise architecture
• 8+ years Progressive related work experience in Project or Product Delivery, Product Management, IT and / or Business Operations or equivalent experience
• 5+ years Demonstrated experience and technical expertise with Success Factors, EC Payroll, Fieldglass, Concur, ADP, and HR Master
• 3+ years Related supervisory and/or lead experience.
• 3+ years' Experience working with in the energy sector or with a utility.
• Experience in both US and Mexico Regulatory…