Join the Product, Experience and Technology (PXT) Finance & Business Management on a transformative journey as we enhance our operating model to drive productivity and innovation. We started by adopting Scrum to boost team-level efficiency and introduced a Product Operating Model to improve collaboration and alignment across teams. As we continue to evolve, we've organized our products into Portfolios, optimizing resource management and priority setting. Our current focus is on accelerating the delivery of our most significant priorities, which span multiple portfolios and involve a variety of autonomous products. With 22 strategic initiatives identified, we're set to propel our business into a successful future, and we aim to expedite the execution of these and other major projects.
As a System Wide Planning Vice President in the Product Experience and Technology team, you will play a pivotal role in transforming high-level investment prioritization decisions into actionable guidelines for independent product teams. Your responsibilities will include facilitating improved and synchronized decision-making processes concerning the scheduling and allocation of capacity for discovery and delivery tasks. Although we do not enforce strict rankings for product capacity allocation, your role will involve enhancing transparency into the status and readiness of work. This will empower product teams to make informed decisions based on multiple priority sources, such as strategic priorities of the Product, Experience and Technology team, line of business priorities, and mandatory firmwide engineering work.
Job Responsibilities
Apply systems thinking to translate strategic investment priorities into actionable delivery sequencing for product teams.Create transparency into strategic priorities so that product teams understand how their work contributes to top level strategy.Enhance transparency into discovery status and work readiness so that products can better decide when to allocate delivery capacity, when to allocate discovery capacity, and when to delay engagement Surface, develop, and implement effective techniques for coordinating information-sharing, planning, capacity allocation, and dependency management across 107 autonomous products to get large projects done faster Partner with product teams to improve quarterly planning to effectively sequence work, apply discovery, and manage dependencies.Define metrics that shed light on how work is flowing through the organization, where bottlenecks are, and whether planning orchestration is increasing productivityRequired qualifications, skills, and capabilities
Bachelor’s degree7+ years of work experience, including experience with Agile or Product Operating Model transformations.Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint and strong skills with data analysis & reportingHands-on experience in software development as a product manager, software engineer, designer, or scrum master.Deep understanding of the product operating model, process engineering, flow, and management of constraints or bottlenecks. Strong leadership skills with a proven track record of driving organizational change. A relentless focus on delivering value. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels. Analytical and strategic mindset with a focus on data-driven decision-making and problem-solving.Ability to work with AI tools on a daily basis particularly large language modelsPreferred qualifications, skills, and capabilities
Background in consultingAdditional Information
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are not able to provide immigration sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.
Final Job Grade level and corporate title will be determined at time of offer and may differ from this posting.
This role does not provide relocation assistance so all candidates must be local to the work locations listed in the job posting or willing to relocate on their own immediately upon hiring.