Director Product Management

Position: DIRECTOR PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
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, improve efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction through the production of quality products.

Within their designated enterprise product, the Director focuses on delivering value by leading the strategic vision and product roadmap across the customer journey and ensuring all products within their portfolio are aligned to the vision. The Director identifies and connects interdependencies with other products within the customer journey. They support business reviews, communicate the product vision, and present across all levels of the organization.

Directors are also responsible for attracting, motivating, coaching and mentoring top product management talent.

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 and will serve as the strategic leader for the multi-year One Tasking initiative. This position will oversee the creation and implementation of innovative technology aimed at efficiently enabling more than 20K Home Depot associates to contribute to an exceptional in-store experience.

This role will work closely with the MET and Store Operations business and technology teams to align on strategic priorities and solutions that meet business needs.

Key Responsibilities:

* 30% Strategy & Planning

* Partners with functional and technical leaders to identify and plan capabilities necessary to meet short and long-term business needs

* Develops and executes strategic plans in support of key objectives in a timely and fiscally responsible manner

* 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

* Drives growth for the business by applying domain expertise to provide thought leadership and translate vision into action

* Informs and drives strategic alignment between products in order to provide a seamless user experience across the enterprise

* 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

* 25% Operations

* 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

* 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

* 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

* 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

* Provides guidance on design of products while keeping in mind dependencies and integration with other products across the enterprise

* Drives operational excellence to create internal customer satisfaction and meet product metrics while prioritizing customer needs

* Understands and articulates the product value…