Sr. Manager, Product Management - Marketing Content & Creative Enablement

Product Management Sr. Manager

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose:

The Product Management Sr. Manager is responsible for attracting, retaining, and developing top talent focused on assessing market needs and inspiring cross-functional product teams to find the fastest way to achieve value around those needs. This product group is the core engine for all marketing content, owning the strategic Digital Asset Management (DAM), Content Management System (CMS), and the roadmap for new content creation products. The Product Management Sr. Manager focuses on guiding and executing the delivery of business value to drive sales, improve efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction through the production of quality products. This includes ensuring creatives and marketers can build and launch content efficiently for marketing ads, campaigns, and Orange Apron Media, as well as supporting media tools for our in-house studio. Within their designated enterprise product line, Sr. Managers work closely with teams of developers, designers, and business partners (Creative, Integrated Marketing, and Marketing Operations). They guide in-depth business reviews, communicate and present across all levels of the organization, and support cross-functional product teams focused on optimizing the end-to-end content supply chain.

Key Responsibilities:

40% Strategy & Planning:

Looks across product teams and feature sets with a focus on alignment and dependencies

Sets the overall product vision and strategies for the enterprise product thorough an understanding of customer and associate needs, both existing and potential, to provide Home Depot customers and associates with an unparalleled shopping experience

Applies domain expertise to provide thought leadership and translate vision into action to drive business growth.

Collaborates across the enterprise to create alignment between products to provide a seamless user experience

Understands financial and business impact of proposed product updates and activities within portfolio; prioritizes updates to support the enterprise roadmap; and allocates funding across the products

Identifies goals, metrics and appropriate analytics to measure the performance of the product and its individual features, and makes recommendations and refinements to the product based on learnings

Contributes to and makes recommendations for strategic plans of the key objectives in a timely and fiscally responsible manner

Participates in and influences development of enterprise technology roadmaps

Supports and nurtures strategic vendor relationships; recommends ways to influence vendors that align to domain, portfolio, and enterprise strategic objectives

30% Delivery & Execution:

Drives product development by reviewing performance and directing work efforts of product teams to ensure products are aligned with company, stakeholder and end-user priorities

Documents, reviews and validates to meet quality and change control standards

Understands enterprise goals and KPIs to deliver value against them

Resolves issues within or across product teams that may impair teams from delivery of a quality product in order to meet strategic, financial and technical goals

Receives and prioritizes incoming requests from business partners and stakeholders balanced against business strategy, product vision and user needs

Provides guidance on design of products while balancing dependencies and integration with other products across the enterprise

Reviews and analyzes product metrics to inform strategic and tactical product decisions

Makes suggestions to drive operational excellence, create internal customer satisfaction and meet operational metrics

30% People:

Provides leadership, mentoring and coaching to Product Managers

Attracts, retains and develops top talent to build a world class Product Management Team

Conducts annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback

Fosters collaboration with team members (Engineering, UX, etc.) to drive value, identify and resolve impediments

Is an advocate of modern software development practices

Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by associating with the product, empathizing with and understanding user needs

Works with the product team to assess progress, disseminate lessons learned, and understand next steps

Manages cross-functional team and stakeholder expectations to execute product strategy.

Educates requestors to determine priority based on tangible benefits and/or user experience

Guides junior team members in strategy, alignment, analysis and execution tasks

Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)