Product Manager, Solutions Design

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The Product Manager, Solutions Design is a leadership role within the Transformation Management Office responsible for shaping enterprise solutions and advancing early-stage application concepts from problem framing through MVP deployment readiness. The role blends disciplined Solutions Design practices with product development execution, helping convert strategic ambiguity into scalable, user-centered, technology-forward solutions that create measurable business value. This individual will partner across business, operations, technology, risk, compliance, product, and data stakeholders to assess opportunities, synthesize evidence, define solution options, and shape practical recommendations.

The role will also lead or support concept development, prototyping, MVP definition, delivery planning and execution, as well as adoption readiness in close partnership with product owners, business analysts, technology, and delivery teams. The Product Manager works directly with Divisional stakeholders, Technology leaders and/or vendors to ensure product ROIs are maximized and meet business needs. In addition, the individual provides product updates and communicates effectively to oversight committees, sponsors, stakeholders, and other program/project managers and key participants.

Lead structured intake, discovery, and current-state assessment for assigned solution opportunities, ensuring requests are tested against strategic, operational, user, and value thresholds.

Develop and facilitate stakeholder interviews, journey mapping, current-state mapping, data analysis, and validation loops to establish an evidence-backed understanding of the problem to be solved.

Synthesize stakeholder input, operational insights, root causes, user needs, constraints, and opportunity areas into clear findings that can be understood by business, technology, and senior leadership audiences.

Translate findings into credible solution scenarios across organization, process, data, technology, controls, and operating model dimensions.

Assess alternatives using impact, effort, risk, dependency, client/user experience, technology feasibility, and value realization considerations.

Develop executive-ready recommendation materials, decision pathways, roadmaps, and business case inputs that help stakeholders converge on a practical path forward.

Lead or support early-stage application product development activities, including concept definition, product vision, prototype shaping, scope, backlog refinement, user workflows, adoption considerations, and delivery readiness.

Facilitate design thinking sessions, working groups, and decision forums that help stakeholders align on user needs, problem statements, solution trade-offs, MVP scope, dependencies, and risks.

Influence without direct authority across multiple functions, balancing stakeholder priorities while maintaining an enterprise-first lens.

Communicate complex solution concepts clearly across audiences ranging from operational SMEs to technology partners and senior leaders.

Bridge solution design into execution by confirming roles, governance, dependencies, risk…