“ The Job Description”
- Maintain an integrated portfolio roadmap across products, journeys, platforms and strategic initiatives.
- Assess initiatives against business value, customer impact, urgency, effort, readiness, risk, dependencies, reuse and strategic alignment.
- Recommend MVP scope, sequencing, release increments, trade-offs and investment priorities; prepare leadership decision materials.
- Lead discovery with business, customers, UX/CX, analytics, technology and delivery partners.
- Define problems, outcomes, customer journeys, use cases, capabilities, business rules, success measures and requirements.
- Produce business process flows and functional specifications; validate readiness before development.
- Coordinate connected capabilities across eCommerce, CRM, engagement, VoC, analytics, AI, automation and partner ecosystems.
- Clarify platform responsibilities, system handoffs, integration dependencies, business ownership and reuse opportunities.
- Partner with Architecture and Engineering on platform-neutral solution options and cohesive end-to-end customer experiences.
- Maintain product backlogs, epics, stories, acceptance criteria, release scope and requirement traceability.
- Lead refinement and resolve business ambiguities with Business Analysts, Product Owners and delivery teams.
- Assess scope changes and maintain documentation, decisions and ownership across product tools.
- Coordinate business-side work from design and build through testing, launch, stabilization and optimization.
- Track dependencies, blockers, risks, scope and decisions across internal teams and vendors; elevate material issues.
- Support integrated release planning, demonstrations, business validation and transition into ongoing operations.
- Work with Architecture and Engineering to evaluate build, buy, reuse and hybrid options against value, fit, integration, scalability, speed and cost.
- Support RFP requirements, evaluation criteria, vendor demonstrations and proof-of-concept assessments.
- Develop business-side recommendations without assuming technical architecture decision authority.
- Champion usability, accessibility, localization, content readiness and consistent journeys.
- Define product success measures with functional owners and ensure analytics and feedback requirements are embedded.
- Review adoption, conversion, experience and operational performance; recommend post-launch improvements.
- Operate intake, assessment, prioritization, stage-gate, reporting and escalation processes under Director direction.
- Maintain portfolio visibility of ownership, scope, funding, risks, dependencies, decisions and approvals.
- Prepare executive updates, decision logs, governance forums and cross-functional alignment activities.
- Support budgets, forecasts, business cases, capacity plans, procurement inputs and investment analysis.
- Coordinate vendor assessments and business-side performance reviews; monitor commitments and deliverables.
- Track planned versus realized benefits and recommend ways to improve platform and investment value.
- Coordinate inputs from cybersecurity, privacy, data protection, legal, accessibility, brand and quality control owners.
- Coordinate UAT, business and operational readiness, support arrangements, analytics readiness and acceptance evidence.
- Provide business go-live readiness recommendations and track defects and stabilization actions.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Digital Business, Product Management or related field.
- 8–12+ years of relevant experience, including 3–5 years in senior digital product, platform or product portfolio responsibilities.
- Demonstrated hands‑on ownership of discovery, roadmaps, prioritization, backlogs, requirements, cross‑functional delivery and launch readiness.
- Experience managing multiple digital products or connected business capabilities in complex customer‑facing environments.
- Understanding of SaaS ecosystems, API integrations and enterprise technology dependencies.
- Strong commercial analysis, stakeholder engagement, problem solving and executive communication.
Highly Preferred:
- Digital commerce, B2B platforms, insurance, banking, fintech, telecommunications or similar transactional ecosystems.
- Experience across CRM, engagement, analytics, automation and integrated customer platforms; Salesforce, Sprinklr or Qualtrics exposure advantageous.
- Agile delivery tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps or Confluence; vendor and systems‑integrator coordination.
- Digital analytics, conversion optimization, customer experience measurement and investment governance.
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