This role will directly support the Enterprise Data Platform. The Product Director is accountable for a logical group of product teams, organized around a common value theme or capability set. They set the experience or capability strategy, vision, roadmap, and go-to-market strategy across the portfolio of product teams they manage.
This position has accountability for team planning and management, prioritization and sequencing across the portfolio, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality work across multiple delivery teams.
Product Directors take an entrepreneurial view of their role within the enterprise in order to deliver desired business outcomes and value, working closely with product teams that include design, product, business, and technology experts.

• Leads product teams; collaborate with other product, business, and technology leaders to ensure business outcomes and value are achieved through best-in-class product management practices and iterative software development techniques
• Leads a portfolio of product solutions, accountable for team planning and management, prioritization, and sequencing across the portfolio. Ensures delivery of high-quality work across multiple teams throughout the product lifecycle
• Is a thought leader for the company and the product teams they are responsible for, in terms of the market context and go-to market strategy for their product, a best in class product management tools and techniques and human centered design principles to achieve product portfolio value
• Work with leaders, individual contributors, and teams to help them understand the Thrivent Operating Model and adopt a product mindset, develop critical Product Management skills, and learn new tactics to define and form products and product teams. Support leaders to use business strategy to define products and outcomes that align, structuring and staffing teams to own those products and outcomes. Upskill PMs and POs, setting new product teams up for success to build outcome-focused customer-centric features using best practices.)
• Fosters and facilitates collaboration and empowerment across multiple product teams. Drives innovation by thinking creatively about the business and the product, and creates an environment where their product owners and managers can do the same
• Sets, manages, and monitors appropriate measurement strategies to tell the story of product performance and value delivery, including financial impacts, risks, experiments, and data
• Understands and communicates the complexity of resource capacity and demand across multiple product teams, advocating for shifts in resource models as necessary to meet the demands of the business strategy.
• Engages with customers and users on a regular basis to uncover implicit and explicit needs, and translate to product hypothesis which are tested and refined to deliver solutions
• Collaborates and influences to resolve conflicts in a constructive manner when they arise
• Acquires, maintains, and applies advances knowledge of the business, its products and processes, and an academic understanding of Product Management and Human Centered Design principles
• Recruits, develops, and sustains a high-performing team while promoting a culture of shared accountability, operational excellence, and partnership across the organization.
• Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable.Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients. Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.