Senior Manager 2, Lead Product Strategist

at  Deloitte

OVERVIEW

The Director of Product Management is a senior leadership role responsible for the overall product line strategy, profit and loss (P&L), product team development, product operating model effectiveness, and objective attainment within a product line. This role focuses on creating the conditions that enable empowered product teams to solve complex customer problems that align with and solve for business needs.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum or 12 years of proven experience in product management or related roles.
• Minimum of 5 years as a people leader
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• An MBA or related advanced degree is beneficial.
• Experience leading and transforming modern product management organizations.
• Proven accountability for value, viability, and P&L for a product organization.
• Visionary and strategic thinker.
• Strong leadership and team development skills.
• Deep expertise in modern product management practices.
• Exceptional communication and influence skills.
• Learning-forward and value-oriented mindset.
• Expert in modern, learning-oriented product management tools and methods.
• Ability to customize tools and methods to specific contexts.
• Broad knowledge across multiple business areas.
• Quick to learn the product domains served in the product line.
• Proven ability to work as an individual contributor in a collaborative, cross-functional team.
• Strong leadership capabilities and a customer-centric mindset.
• Ability to coach Product Managers and lead through influence and experience-driven expertise.
• Humble, curious, and learning-forward mindset.
• Favor action and evidence over detailed upfront planning and precision aiming.
• Experience with lean solutions and rapid, inexpensive experimentation.
• High levels of customer and user engagement.
• An approach that emerges the right product, in the right way, at the right time through small steps and rapid learning.
• Strategic Vision: Develop, execute, and continually evolve a strategic vision for the product line.
• Leadership: Lead and inspire cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration and collective movement toward product goals.
• Customer-Centricity: Deep understanding of customer needs and engagement patterns, driving teams to deliver solutions that customers love and that work for the business.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement in product management practices and the product engineering operating model to enhance market value realization.
• Outcome Orientation: Focus on achieving outcomes over outputs and demonstrate the value of this approach through action and evidence.

• Strategy Development and Execution
• Own and evolve the product line strategy, vision, and roadmap in alignment with business objectives.
• Engage cross-functional teams in co-creating and evolving the strategy based on emergent insights from measured results and evidence.
• Champion the product line strategy and keep the organization informed of progress.
• Product Team Development
• Recruit, staff, coach, and develop Product Managers who can solve complex problems through rapid experimentation.
• Foster a learning-forward, customer-centric, and value-oriented mindset within product teams.
• Ensure safety for experimentation and learning within product teams.
• System Improvement
• Actively engage with product teams to Identify and remove impediments slowing value achievement.
• Continuously improve and streamline the product operating model to enhance market value delivery and achievement.
• Form effective team topologies to align with objectives and remove obstacles.
• Outcome-Oriented Transformation
• Evangelize the shift from output to outcomes within the organization.
• Educate and include stakeholders in the new product operating model.
• Demonstrate the value of empowered product teams through action and evidence.