Senior Product Manager - Seamless Buying - Frontdoor

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Senior Product Manager - Seamless Buying - Frontdoor

Product Managers are essential for ensuring that products achieve their primary purpose: enabling users to perform tasks that generate value for the company.

Core Responsibilities:
The role encompasses two broad areas of responsibility:

Strategic Vision & Alignment: Setting the strategic vision for the product, placing the customer and their needs at the center of all decisions. Ensuring team priorities directly support business outcomes for customers, the product, and both technical and enabling teams. This requires continually aligning the product strategy and objectives across customer, product, technical, and enabling teams.

Product Backlog Management: Managing the product backlog, which involves prioritizing the work of assigned squads to realize the product vision and aligned strategy.

Execution and Accountability: The Product Manager is also responsible for operational execution and continuous improvement:

• The Product Manager resolves and escalates impediments, addresses technical debt, manages risks, assures value delivery, and drives continuous improvements for the respective product.
• The incumbent acts as a critical link between Unit Leads, the Platform Lead, and Digital Leads, facilitating communication, driving the flow of information, and sharing crucial progress updates to ensure successful delivery.
• Ultimately, the Product Manager is accountable for the coordination, execution, and delivery of value for the respective product within the Unit, ensuring alignment with the company's overall strategy, commitments, and goals.

Product Management:

• Accountable for product success from conception to decommissioning,
• Identify domain needs and develop/validate product concepts,
• Build a business case for the product,
• Oversee product build and launch; ensure availability, stability, and compliance,
• Collaborate with teams: product development, marketing, finance, legal, manufacturing, operations, and sales,
• Drive agile best practices for improved delivery and continuous planning (e.g., sprint planning),
• Co-create user stories aligned with product backlog prioritization,
• Conduct market opportunity identification, competitive analysis, sales enablement, and monitor domain performance.

• Identify key stakeholder groups,
• Use discretion to balance strong opinions and deliver value,
• Build trust by understanding and meeting stakeholder needs.

• Provide strategic leadership with end-to-end ownership of products,
• Plan and optimize capabilities to achieve business outcomes efficiently,
• Require strong strategic planning, decision-making, and influencing skills.

• Create comprehensive product roadmaps to clarify user needs and requirements,
• Track and report progress against 90-day outcomes and overall product health,
• Plan and manage product delivery while streamlining the backlog,
• Monitor user feedback and metrics to enhance user experience and business value,
• Leverage Design Thinking methodology for usability, feasibility, business fit, and value testing.

• Proactively communicate and collaborate with product users and stakeholders,
• Foster effective cross-functional collaboration for valuable product delivery,
• Maintain strong relationships with colleagues in product management and engineering,
• Mentor junior product managers to enhance product management and agile practices.

Required:

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science,…