Product Management Practice Lead

Job Title:
Product Management Practice Lead

Duration: 6 months

Location:
Plano TX

Pay Rate: $110 hourly

• Newly created role to lead product transformation.
• Responsible for designing product processes, creating playbooks, and enabling product manager coaching.
• 12-15 years overall experience; 3 years in product management.
• Need people who have helped build the product management practice for the organization and NOT just played product manager roles.
• Strong process design and agile practice orientation.
• Tools:
  Jira, Confluence, Excel, MS Forms.
• Must have led product organizations; agile coaches NOT preferred. Someone having just product manager experience would NOT be considered.
• First round would be virtual; second round would be onsite.
• Hybrid role to begin with; should be flexible to come in office.

• We are looking for an experienced and results-driven Contract Product Management Practice Lead to help us build a world-class enterprise product practice. This role is a key part of our Product Management Transformation Team.
• Instead of owning a specific product, you will be responsible for defining how our operating model, frameworks, templates, and tooling will empower our product design and engineering teams to consistently deliver exceptional customer value and business outcomes.

• Design and scale our product operating model, including team structure, roles, decision rights, and funding models.
• Architect our portfolio structure by defining product domains, product lines, and individual products.
• Establish and standardize product processes for intake, strategy, road‑mapping, backlog management, quarterly business reviews (QBRs), and investment cycles.
• Define key ceremonies for success, from release readiness reviews to post‑release analyses and postmortems.

• Create and maintain a central practice portal with playbooks, templates, and guidance for all stages of the product lifecycle.
• Standardize key metrics and a shared language for product success (e.g., North Star metrics, OKRs, product health metrics, and ROI).
• Select, implement, and govern our product tool stack, including road‑mapping, backlog management (e.g., Jira), analytics, experimentation, and documentation (e.g., Confluence).

• Establish and lead the Product Guild/Community of Practice to foster knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
• Develop competency models, leveling guides, and training programs to accelerate the professional growth of our product managers.
• Provide coaching and office hours to elevate the skills and capabilities of our teams.

• Embed essential governance and controls for privacy, security, and accessibility (e.g., WCAG, SOC
  2) directly into our standard templates and definitions of done.
• Define and track operating metrics across customer success, business ROI, and product outcomes to drive continuous improvement.

• 8-12 years in product management, product operations, or portfolio governance with a proven track record of scaling practices across multiple teams.
• Strategic & operational expertise:
  Direct experience in designing and implementing product operating models, portfolio governance, and OKRs.
• Influence: A history of building high‑adoption templates and playbooks in collaboration with product managers, business engineering teams, and other stakeholders.
• Tooling:
  Hands‑on experience with modern product tools.

• Experience in SaaS or multi‑product environments.
• Prior experience leading a Product Operations team or a Product Centre of Excellence.
• Familiarity with Dev Ops/SRE and SDLC controls.

• Practice Management
• Veterinary Experience
• Enterprise Architecture
• Office Manager Experience
• Enterprise Software
• Healthcare Management
• IaaS
• TOGAF
• Medical office experience
• Conflict Management
• COBIT
• Customer relationship management

Employment Type:
Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1