Senior Director, Product Management
UPS
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Parsippany • Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- Develop and implement the Product & Platform Operating Model, organizing technology teams around products and persistent capabilities with a focus on user personas.
- Strengthen collaboration between business and technology teams to ensure technology initiatives support organizational goals.
- Align intake and solutioning processes with Program Increment cycles for seamless delivery.
- Apply Lean-Agile methodologies to drive execution, provide leadership with insights on team capacity, and optimize resource allocation.
- Institutionalize capacity-based funding models, ensuring transparency in operational and growth expenditures.
- Lead change initiatives by fostering awareness, desire, knowledge, action, and reinforcement to support product transformation.
- Advance skills and training programs to support the transition to a product operating model.
- Ensure consistent, transparent messaging regarding Digital Transformation across the organization.
- Mobilize product lines and large-scale pods to accelerate innovation and support organizational objectives.
- Lead role-based capability development to ensure teams possess the necessary skills for successful product management.
- Drive team performance, establish measurable standards, and implement best practices for software development efficiency by tracking metrics to measure effectiveness and impact.
- Design and implement Communities of Practice (CoP) and Centers of Excellence (CoE) to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in product management, product operations, or related leadership roles.
- Proven ability to lead, develop, and inspire high-performing teams.
- Strong strategic thinking and business acumen.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Demonstrated expertise in project to product transformation at a large organization
- Expert at process optimization, change management, and continuous improvement.
Benefits
- Medical/prescription drug coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Flexible Spending Account
- Health Savings Account
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance & Accidental Death and Dismemberment
- Disability Income Protection Plan
- Employee Assistance Program
- 401(k) retirement program
- Vacation
- Paid Holidays and Personal time
- Paid Sick and Family and Medical Leave time as required by law
- Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Lean-Agile methodologiescapacity-based funding modelsproduct managementprocess optimizationchange managementcontinuous improvementsoftware development efficiencymetrics trackingCommunities of PracticeCenters of Excellence
Soft skills
leadershipstrategic thinkingbusiness acumencommunicationstakeholder engagementteam developmentinspirationcollaborationknowledge sharingperformance management