Product Management - Director - Financial Services

Publicis Groupe; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Publicis Sapient seeks a Director of Product Management to lead digital product delivery for major client engagements. You will shape strategy, own roadmaps, and drive outcomes in partnership with experience, analytics, marketing, and technology teams.

You will manage a team of Digital Product Managers, turning complex inputs into clear roadmaps while ensuring alignment with business goals and KPIs. This role demands stakeholder leadership, global collaboration, and a track record of delivering

Qualifications

• Track record of building or owning large digital products or properties.
• Demonstrated portfolio of user-centric digital experiences with positive KPI impact.
• Significant industry knowledge in Financial Services.
• Experience leading digital product scrum teams.
• Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams (PMs, Scrum Masters, UI/UX, marketing, engineering).
• Strong data interpretation to drive decisions.
• Ability to translate inputs into a clear, communicable vision.
• Results-oriented with influencing, problem solving, and negotiation skills.
• Strong communication and storytelling abilities.
• Knowledge of current digital web and application standards.

Responsibilities

• Set strategy for a digital product and communicate strategy to teams and partners.
• Align product strategy with organizational goals.
• Turn strategy into executable roadmaps.
• Build understanding of digital product value to core users.
• Identify core user journeys with product.
• Incorporate domain roadmaps (Experience, Analytics) into product roadmap.
• Gather inputs from quantitative/qualitative data, user testing, market research to drive roadmap.
• Use data to develop hypotheses and business cases.
• Be accountable for product performance against goals and KPIs.
• Manage stakeholder intake requests and guide partners through intake process.
• Lead decisions on product team ownership, structure and cost.
• Manage team of Digital Product Managers.
• Lead Product Teams to communicate vision and roadmaps.
• Collaborate with product owners to incorporate knowledge and data into feedback loops.
• Work with portfolio and technology teams to prioritize and deliver roadmaps.
• Escalate roadmap impacts and issues to leadership and present.

Skills

Strategy alignment

Roadmap planning

Data-driven decision making

Stakeholder management

Leadership of product teams

Cross-functional collaboration

User-centric design

Communication/storytelling

KPI & metrics

Agile product delivery

Job description

Company description Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 72 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Overview Director Product Management

As a Director Product Management, you will build and oversee digital product delivery for various clients. This role will heavily collaborate with leadership of digital product to understand, communicate, and implement user-centric experiences in partnership with various disciplines including the experience, data and analytics, marketing, and technology to achieve product and business goals. This role will manage a team to ensure roadmaps are developed and delivered for clients.

Responsibilities

• Your Impact Set strategy for a digital product and communicate that strategy to teams and other partners
• Align product strategy to other organizational goals
• Turn strategy into executable product roadmaps
• Build understanding of digital product’s value to core users
• Identify core user journeys with product
• Incorporate domain roadmaps– Experience, Analytics, etc. – into product roadmap
• Gather and build insight from various inputs, including quantitative data, qualitative data, user testing programs, market research, etc., to ensure product roadmap is data driven
• Use data to develop hypothesis and business cases
• Be accountable for digital products performance against goals and KPIs
• Manage stakeholder’s intake request expectations and lead partners through intake process
• Lead decisions involving product team ownership, structure and cost
• Manage team of Digital Product Managers
• Lead individual Product Teams to communicate overall vision, digital product roadmap and goals
• Collaborate with product owners to incorporate knowledge and data into the feedback loop and allow for influence of the roadmap
• Work with portfolio and technology teams to ensure roadmaps are prioritized and delivered according to plan
• Escalate roadmap impacts and issues to leadership and present

Qualifications

Skills & Experience Track of record of building or owning large digital products or properties, show you have shipped digital product Demonstrated portfolio of user-centric digital experiences with proven, positive impacts to engagement and KPIs Significant industry knowledge and expertise within Financial Services industry Experience building and leading digital product scrum teams Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams comprising product managers, project managers/scrum masters, UI/UX, marketers and engineering Strong ability to absorb and make sense of large amounts of data to direct decision making Ability to turn complicated inputs into a clear, communicable vision Results-oriented individual with strong influencing, problem solving and negotiation skills Ability to build the right team, focus people and model/demand integrity Outstanding communication/storytelling skills Knowledge of current digital web and application standards

Additional information

Set Yourself Apart With Experience in AI-driven product development and machine learning applications. Knowledge of emerging technologies such as blockchain, AR/VR, and IoT. Background in scaling digital products in global markets.