Director Product Management Jobs

Position Purpose

Are you interested in driving product management excellence for world's largest home improvement retailer? Do aspire to lead others to deliver true value based on customer backed approaches? Does utilizing your entrepreneurial spirit to reinvent the way strategy and customer needs are translated into products feel like your calling?

If you are a passionate and seasoned product leader yearning to transform experiences for millions of customers and thousands of passionate associates, we are looking for you to join The Home Depot leadership team as a Director of Product Management.

The Director of Product Management is responsible for delivering business value to drive sales, increase efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction through the development of quality technology products. Within their designated enterprise product portfolio, the Director focuses on delivering value by leading the strategic vision and product roadmap across the customer journey, ensuring all products within their portfolio are aligned to this vision, and communicating the product vision across all levels of the organization. The Director is responsible for driving stakeholder alignment, managing interdependencies with other products within the customer journey, supporting all planning, development, and delivery efforts, and is responsible for attracting, motivating, coaching, and mentoring top product management talent at the Home Depot.

The Director of Product Management, Merchandising Execution and In-Store Environment is responsible for the development and implementation of technology products for the broader MET and ISE organizations. This position will oversee the creation and implementation of innovative technology aimed at enabling and driving efficiency for more than 20K Home Depot associates. This role will work closely with the MET leadership team to align on strategic priorities and solutions that meet business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides guidance on design of products while keeping in mind dependencies and integration with other products across the enterprise
• Identifies goals, metrics and appropriate analytics to measure the performance of the product and its individual features, and continually makes recommendations and refinements to the product based on learnings
• Shapes and supports product management leaders (direct reports) who can strengthen The Home Depot's product management bench strength, improve upon existing capabilities, and develop others who understand and advocate for product management excellence across the enterprise
• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews
• Resolves issues within or across product teams that may impair teams from delivery of a quality product in order to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals
• Drives growth for the business by applying domain expertise to provide thought leadership and translate vision into action
• Attracts, retains, develops and motivates product management talent
• Creates a healthy team culture of happy and productive associates who understand the vision and strategy and are empowered to make the decisions necessary to execute and meet clearly defined and communicated metrics
• Develops and executes strategic plans in support of key objectives in a timely and fiscally responsible manner
• Provides leadership, mentoring and coaching to direct reports
• Informs and drives strategic alignment between products in order to provide a seamless user experience across the enterprise
• Supports successful delivery of product management practices by advocating for the position of product management as it relates to customer backed design and prioritizing work based on value
• Establishes and refines a highly effective and tactfully executed product management discipline for the associated business domain
• Champions business domain and associated product management vision and strategy
• 30% Strategy & Planning
• 25% Operations
• Partners with functional and technical leaders to identify and plan capabilities necessary to meet short and long-term business needs
• Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by empathizing with and understanding user needs and becoming the domain expert
• Sets the overall product vision and strategies for the enterprise product by gaining a thorough understanding of customer and associate needs, both existing and potential, and using that knowledge to provide Home Depot customers and associates with an unparalleled shopping experience
• Understands financial and business impact of proposed product updates and activities within portfolio, prioritizes updates to support the enterprise roadmap, and based on prioritization allocates product funding across the products
• Manages and coordinates strategic direction for team
• Drives operational excellence to create internal customer satisfaction and meet product metrics while prioritizing customer needs
• Drives product development by reviewing performance and directing work efforts of product teams to ensure products are aligned with company, stakeholder and end-user priorities
• 20% People Development
• Understands and articulates the product value creation and business proposition to teams and functional partners
• Drives innovation with her/his team and empowers them to make decisions
• 25% Enablement
• Evaluates research and market analysis, meets with third party vendors, and maintains knowledge of industry innovations and technology platforms to inform the strategy for product

Direct Manager/Direct Reports

• Responsible for managing personnel issues including selection, performance appraisal, professional development, and termination of subordinates
• Reports to Senior Director, Product Managment
• This role has 2-4 direct reports and indirectly manages 10-20 associates.

Travel Requirements:

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

Physical Requirements

• 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.

Working Conditions

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

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient in utilizing deep market and industry knowledge to achieve strategic objectives
• Ability to concisely, confidently and effectively communicate, advocate for, and demonstrate the value of product management
• Deep domain expertise in associated business domain -Merchandising Execution and In-Store Environment
• Proficient in shaping, aligning and guiding execution of strategic direction for domain or significant portfolio segment
• Proficient in selecting and leading strategic vendor relationships or acting as the primary point of contact for strategic partnerships
• 10 years of relevant work experience
• Proficient in defining, communicating and driving value propositions, success metrics and outcomes
• Proficient in leading a successful product team within a fast-paced, multi-division, national company
• Proficient in managing and developing direct reports who lead others
• Proficient in communicating, building influence and developing relationships with functional and technical leaders across all levels in the organization

Minimum Education

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Minimum Years Of Work Experience

• 8