Senior Director, Digital Product Management

• Own and evolve the vision, philosophy, and operating model for the Product Management practice, including how digital products are discovered, prioritized, delivered, and measured.
• Set and steward product standards, methodologies, governance, and tooling; improve consistency and quality across teams as the organization scales.
• Translate enterprise and digital strategy into a multi-year direction for the product discipline, aligning practice investment, organizational capacity, and priorities to business needs.
• Represent product management at the executive level and partner with Engineering, Data, Commercial, and business leaders to shape digital strategy, portfolio investment, and roadmaps.
• Lead the discipline’s contribution to measurable commercial, customer, and operational outcomes; establish performance measures and communicate trade-offs to executive leadership.
• Own the talent and capability architecture for product management, including job families, leveling frameworks, career paths, hiring standards, talent calibration, succession planning, and leadership development.
• Lead and develop Directors of Product Management and, as scope expands, UX / Design leaders; build a strong leadership bench and set clear cultural, performance, and ethical expectations.
• Build, structure, and resource the product and experience organization in partnership with the Chief Digital Officer and the HR team.
• Extend practice leadership across UX / Design and cross-functional delivery to enable an integrated, end-to-end approach to digital product development.
• Advance product and UX maturity by benchmarking against industry practices, implementing modern operating models, including AI-enabled ways of working, and leading the organizational change required for adoption.
• Champion customer-centricity, outcome orientation, and data-informed decision-making across the discipline.

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