Directs principal activities across the end-to-end product delivery journey including intake, dependency management, release management, product operationalization, delivery feasibility decision-making, and product performance reporting, while highlighting opportunities to improve efficiencies and functional coordination.
Owns the change management framework across functional partners and ensures adherence to the firm’s risk, controls, compliance, and regulatory requirements
Maintains a high level of visibility over product timelines and dependencies while monitoring blockers, ensuring adequate resourcing, and liaising with stakeholders and functional partners
Coaches and mentors, the product delivery team on best practices through collaborative discussions on resource management, dependency management, and deployment techniques to improve efficiencies Provide integrated management and coordination to deliver new features and products at scale while managing key interdependencies, integrations and roadmaps.
Connect strategy to execution and blend operational management of releases with portfolio management capabilities to ensure deployments are delivered with end-to-end regard for the Employee, Manager and Specialist experience.
Work across teams, function, and disciplines to drive continued progress by removing roadblocks and addressing technical and operational risks.
Deliver on the roadmap to support product outcomes, using a data-driven approach based on metrics and feedback.
Manage the overall health of the product inclusive of adoption, KPIs and business value.
Drive innovation across the end-to-end experience, including integrated AI/ML solutions and on-demand capabilities for service specialist.
Enable a strong risk, controls & conduct framework by demonstrating a “security-by-design” product mindset, ensuring the Help Product meets all applicable security and risk controls.
Partner with agility leads, area product owners, and business representatives to deliver expected business outcomes.
Prepare and share timely, compelling, fact-based analysis that explain the business “story” behind the product roadmap and delivered features.
Discover and create business requirements and agile epics/stories, collaborating with the business, support partners and agile delivery teams.
Provide leadership & mentorship to others, investing in their growth and development.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
Expertise delivering products, projects, or technology applications
Extensive experience leading operational management and change readiness
Experience in enterprise-wide release and deployment processes and strategies
Advanced knowledge of the product development life cycle, technical design, and data analytics
Experience in large-scale implementation and change management working in a cross-functional capacity, managing competing priorities and diverse stakeholders
Team leadership – Ability to lead teams, communicate with diverse groups, and influence change throughout the organization. Comfortable in agile teaming and matrix organizations
Organizational and management skills – Strong attention-to-detail, independent, self-motivated with ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environment. Strong decision-making skills
Cross-functional partnership and collaboration skills – Comfort building and maintaining strong relationships with a broad set of product and functional partners
Stakeholder management – Strong relationship management and communication skills, ability to work with top leaders across the organization
Service delivery knowledge – working understanding of service team operations, help processes, and technology platforms to support help teams is desired
Customer orientation – develops deep empathy and understanding in service of creating frictionless end-to-end experience
Data literacy - Ability to analyze complex problems, evaluate data and identify alternative solutions with a strategic lens
Experience in large-scale implementation and change management working in a cross-functional capacity, managing competing priorities and diverse stakeholders
Product Management skills - strong understanding Product Operating Models, Agile methods; stakeholder management, measurement of product effectiveness and adoption products
Culture carrier – ability to champion change and influence people to adopt new ways of performing work by demonstrating effectiveness in interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
Expertise driving business efficiencies through workflows and automation, preferably with ServiceNow