
VP, Product – Contact Center Routing and Workforce Planning
Synchrony
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Stamford • Connecticut • Illinois • United States
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Salary
💰 $130,000 - $210,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Define product vision and strategy for Intelligent Routing and Workforce Optimization, aligned to Contact Center Modernization (CCM) and enterprise servicing priorities
- Own the end-to-end product roadmap and scaled delivery for inbound/outbound intelligent routing across Customer Service and Collections
- Drive measurable improvements in care time, NPS, and Voice of Customer
- Lead product management for CCM Workforce Planning Optimization platforms
- Deliver intelligent, human-centered routing and work orchestration, connecting customers and balancing workload effectively across geographies and service-level needs
- Drive workforce optimization outcomes, improving schedule accuracy, service delivery, reliability, and employee experience through streamlined processes and enabling tools
- Own platform integration strategy and execution to ensure seamless end-to-end connectivity across CCM, Workforce Planning Optimization, Workforce Management, and intraday systems
- Partner cross-functionally with Contact Center Operations, Technology, Architecture, Data, Risk, Compliance, and Experience Design to deliver secure, compliant, high-quality capabilities at scale
- Establish product metrics and operating cadence
- Accountable for longer-term platform capabilities including APIs and microservices for workforce planning, workforce management, and intraday management in a modern cloud-based environment
- Champion modernization and change adoption, influencing stakeholders and guiding rollouts that enable seamless omnichannel servicing across voice, digital, chat, and messaging
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of relevant experience in product management, platform delivery, servicing operations technology, or equivalent.
- In lieu of a degree, 12 years of relevant experience in product management, platform delivery, servicing operations technology, or equivalent
- 8+ years leading cross functional initiatives across business and technology teams with measurable outcomes
- Demonstrated experience delivering customer service, servicing, contact center, process reengineering and automation, or agent workflow solutions at enterprise scale.
- 5+ years working in Agile at scale (SAFe preferred), including backlog management, release planning, and dependency management
- Experience translating business goals into product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and iterative releases
- Proven ability to partner with engineering and architecture leaders on integration scope, technical tradeoffs, and sequencing
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive updates.
- Ability to work Eastern Time Zone hours, while partnering with global stakeholders
- Ability and flexibility to travel for business as required
Benefits
- Flexibility to work from home near one of the Hubs or in the office
- Annual bonus based on individual and company performance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product managementworkforce optimizationplatform deliveryAgilebacklog managementrelease planningAPIsmicroservicesprocess reengineeringautomation
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcross-functional collaborationinfluencing stakeholderschange adoptionproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingcustomer focusadaptabilityteamwork