Product Management Manager - Community Of Practice - Remote

Position Purpose:
The Product Management Manager is responsible for attracting, retaining, and developing top talent focused on assessing market needs and inspiring cross-functional teams to find the fastest way to achieve value around those needs. The Product Management Manager role focuses on guiding and executing the delivery of business value to support the Product Associate Value Proposition and the Agile Hub charter. This role will primarily focus on developing and executing the strategy to build an engaged and connected product management community through events (including Product Connect, ProductCon, Product Showcases, Meet-Ups and Service Events), provide digital communication tools to enable and support One Product Community (including the Product Management Depot SharePoint site), and enhance product management talent pipeline programs to grow professional pathways (including internships, apprenticeships and onboarding programs). The Manager works closely with all product management teams and many cross-functional business partners (including HR, Corporate Communications and OrangeMethod), and supports in-depth business reviews with expectations to communicate and present across all levels of the organization.

Key Responsibilities:
30% Strategy & Planning:

• Determines value to the business of anticipated product updates
• 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
• Identifies goals, metrics and appropriate analytics to measure the performance of products and continually makes recommendations and refinements to products based on learnings
• Creates epics to drive improvements to product vision, features and back end systems, and adjusts for new business models
• 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
• Looks across product teams and feature sets with a focus on alignment and dependencies

40% Delivery & Execution:

• 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
• Provides regular updates to leadership regarding progress of products within portfolio
• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
• Receives and prioritizes incoming requests from business partners and stakeholders while keeping in mind the business strategy, product vision and user needs
• Reviews recommended solutions and work of product team to ensure products are aligned with company, stakeholder and end user priorities

30% People:

• Manages cross functional team and stakeholder expectations to execute on product strategy and provides education to requestors to determine prioritization based on tangible benefits and/or user experience
• Fosters collaboration with team members (Engineering, UX, etc.) to drive value and identify and resolve impediments
• Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the product, empathizing with and understanding user needs
• Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
• Guides more junior team members in strategy, alignment, analysis and execution tasks
• Works with the product team to continuously assess progress, disseminate lessons learned and understand next steps
• Attracts, retains and develops top talent to build a world class Product Management Team
• Provides leadership, mentoring and coaching to Product Managers
• Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

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

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficiency in working as a Product Manager in a modern software development based enterprise environment and overseeing multiple products
• Proficiency in conducting user research and testing to understand needs
• 5-7 years of relevant work experience
• Proficiency in identifying goals, metrics and analytics to measure product value
• 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
• Experience conducting competitive research and analysis
• Experience balancing workloads across teams
• Proficiency in communicating with and influencing functional and technical team members at all levels in the organization
• Proficiency in working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern software design and development team
• Experience managing and growing team members in a professional setting
• Proficiency in working in a fast paced, fluid environment where priorities shift on a regular basis
• Proficiency in active listening communicating at all levels (Executive Leadership Team, store associates, etc.) while gracefully managing expectations of multiple stakeholders
• Proficiency in creating, prioritizing and accepting epics and user stories
• Experience guiding more junior team members through Product Management fundamentals in a professional setting

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.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 5

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals
• Customer Focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions
• Drives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives
• Balances Stakeholders: Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders
• Manages Complexity: Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
• Organizational Savvy: Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process and people-related organizational dynamics
• Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people
• Attracts Top Talent: Attracting and selecting the best talent to meet current and future business needs
• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful
• Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization's goals
• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences