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Senior Director Product Owner:
Talent Growth

Johannesburg NTT America, Inc.

Posted 19 days ago

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The Senior Director Product Owner:
Talent Growth will own the roadmap and technology enablement for skills‑driven career growth, learning, and internal mobility. They will connect talent strategy, skills data, workforce demand, and employee experience to deliver personalized growth opportunities and improve skills visibility across NTT DATA Inc.

This role is a leadership role responsible for shaping and managing the product vision, roadmap, and technology enablement for NTT DATA Inc's Talent Growth capability. This role is responsible for supporting NTT DATA Inc's journey to become a skills‑driven organization, with a specific focus on internal talent growth, personalized development, learning pathways, career growth, internal mobility, and skills‑based workforce intelligence.

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for translating the Talent Growth strategy into clear product outcomes, platform capabilities, user journeys, backlog priorities, and measurable business value
• Owns the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and lifecycle for the Talent Growth capability across NTT DATA Inc.
• Shapes the technology roadmap required to support NTT DATA Inc's transition into a skills‑driven organisation.
• Defines how technology will enable personalised growth opportunities for employees, including learning, career development, internal mobility, gigs, projects, mentoring, and future role readiness.
• Partners with People & Culture, Talent, Learning, Workforce Planning, IT, Data, Architecture, Change, and business stakeholders to translate business needs into product capabilities.
• Connects market skills demand, organisational workforce demand, employee skills profiles, learning pathways, and career opportunities into a coherent Talent Growth product strategy.
• Defines and manages the product backlog, ensuring priorities are aligned to business value, employee experience, global scalability, and technical feasibility.
• Defines the Minimum Viable Product for new or enhanced Talent Growth capabilities to enable rapid validation, adoption, and value realisation.
• Works with delivery teams, solution architects, platform owners, and vendors to translate business requirements into platform features and product increments.
• Ensures the Talent Growth product supports improved skills visibility, capability gap analysis, personalised learning recommendations, and internal talent movement.
• Partners with data and architecture teams to define the skills data foundations, integrations, governance, reporting, and analytics required to support skills‑based decision‑making.
• Champions a simple, intuitive, and engaging employee experience that enables employees to understand their skills, explore opportunities, and take ownership of their growth.
• Supports managers and business leaders with better visibility of internal talent supply, skills gaps, and development opportunities.
• Engages senior stakeholders to align on product direction, roadmap priorities, adoption requirements, investment decisions, risks, and value measures.
• Balances global standardisation with regional and business‑specific needs to ensure the Talent Growth capability can scale across NTT DATA Inc.
• Works with change and communications teams to support adoption, awareness, and behavioural change requisites.

Academic qualifications and certifications

• Bachel…