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FINRA · 1 day ago

Director: Product Management - Workday HCM

Rockville, MD

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$151K/yr - $305K/yr

10+ years exp

FINRA is a regulatory organization that oversees the financial industry, and they are seeking a Director of Product Management for Workday HCM. This role leads a product team, develops product strategies, and manages the implementation and execution of product group strategies while ensuring the team delivers maximum customer value.

FinanceFinancial ServicesNon Profit

Culture & Values

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Continuously builds network of talent inside and outside of FINRA

Demonstrates and differentiates performance bar across multiple levels and applies to hiring decisions

Creates mechanisms to help onboard all new talent to organization, mentor others

Effectively coaches and gives feedback to direct reports to help develop talent and support career development

Works with cross-functional leaders and experts to establish best practices and identify opportunities to improve the product development and delivery process

Sets and balances goals across team to optimize performance against organization goals and employee development

Applies performance standards to team

Identifies resource needs for team

Describes strategic importance of vision inside and outside of team

Sets and articulates expectations around FINRA values and PM behaviors for team, models behavior and exemplifies FINRA values and PM behaviors

Identify talent needs to enable execution of product strategy

Develops deep understanding of the business and product areas across the product domain, as well as the relevant data that can be used to inform key decisions

Defines multiple large, cross-functional and/or highly complex products, often spanning multiple product groups, and identifies gaps and user needs by creating vision, strategy, and requirements documents for products

Utilizes available data or commissions new research to identify user needs

Performs experiments and organizes primary research to uncover additional user value

Provides strategic input into the process of defining a group of products across product domains, utilizing expertise on market trends to determine how to best meet user needs

Develops, manages, and owns the product roadmap for multiple large, cross functional and/or highly complex products

Makes trade-off decisions for multiple products or product groups

Demonstrates expertise across multiple products and understands company-wide assets which facilitates discovery and drives enterprise capabilities

Builds partnerships with relevant stakeholder teams

Coordinates with interdependent teams and influences leadership to drive efficiencies

Builds and leverages solid working relationships with business and product stakeholders, UI/UX, architecture, and technology teams to facilitate product and user success

Owns and participates in the intake process for their product domain

Leads the product planning process across multiple large, cross functional and/or highly complex products by overseeing and developing requirements documents (user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases) for products or product releases

Maintains a prioritized backlog based on defined user value, aligning with product strategy and resource capacity; uses data and analytics to prioritize the product backlog appropriately

Works closely with UI/UX to set the direction for the design of the user experience for their products

Determines and monitors release goals, prioritization, implementation, and iteration plans for their products according to user value

Resolves problems that are escalated during the process

Collaborates with senior leadership to identify strategy that spans product groups; working with relevant stakeholders to identify barriers or potential long-term consequences of plans across product groups

Facilitates the development process by reviewing demos with the technology team and validating acceptance criteria for multiple large, cross functional and/or highly complex products

Provides UX/UI approval for their assigned products

Tracks the development work and drives resolution of escalated issues and bugs for their products

Identifies issues that will keep their products from delivering on time or at the right level of quality, assesses alternatives to resolve, builds a plan for resolution, and directly resolves or communicates to leadership

Leads large and often highly complex product launches by working with relevant stakeholders to develop launch plans

Identifies, reviews, and resolves issues and blockers in partnership with team members that may delay the launch or impede the success of product(s)

Coordinates formal UAT where necessary

Develops product documentation and training materials for users in support of product launches

Tracks and reports on product launch metrics, utilizing feedback to drive associated actions and product iteration

Leads post-launch reviews and drives incorporation of feedback in future product releases

Works with internal and external teams and users to identify, classify, and resolve product and product group-level user issues

Identifies new and innovative methods and metrics for tracking product success, works with the technology team to improve reports and monitoring

Works with stakeholder teams to actively monitor metrics

Tracks performance trends and gathers user feedback to determine product domain-level gaps, development opportunities, and if necessary, product end-of-life plans

Represents team in product group-level discussions with stakeholders

Attends business reviews, providing critical input and expert insights to inform the business cases, business strategy, and development of new products

Builds and maintains relationships with key industry thought leaders to improve vision and improve product success

Provides coaching and guidance to more junior-level product management team members

Works with cross-functional leaders and experts to establish best practices and identify opportunities to improve the product development and delivery process

Follow, understand, and apply relevant industry trends, research, and best practices in technology and product management

Builds and maintains relationships with key industry thought leaders to improve vision and improve product success

Demonstration of FINRA’s values

Collaboration, both in-person and virtually, in furtherance of FINRA’s mission of investor protection and market integrity

Additional responsibilities as assigned

Qualification

Workday HCMProduct ManagementAgile software developmentBusiness analysisLeadership experienceBusiness acumenData analysisFinancial Services experienceWriting abilityCross-functional collaboration

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Communications, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)

10 years of experience in one or more of the following: product management, project management, business analysis, program management, or product marketing

7 years of experience in product and/or experience management

5 years of leadership experience with direct report responsibility

Prior product management experience with Workday HCM

Strong writing ability

Strong business acumen

Experience with Agile software development

Experience working cross-functionally in a large organization

Experience working closely with senior leadership

Experience translating data into quantifiable actions/deliverables

Preferred

Master's Degree in Business Administration or similar advanced degree

HCM Core or HCM Pro Workday Certifications

CSPO Certification

Experience in the Financial Services industry

Strong financial acumen

Experience collaborating closely with senior leadership

Experience providing guidance and direction to cross-functional resources

Benefits

Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance

Basic life, accidental death and dismemberment, supplemental life, spouse/domestic partner and dependent life, and spouse/domestic partner and dependent accidental death and dismemberment, short- and long-term disability, long-term care, business travel accident, disability and legal

Immediate participation and vesting in a 401(k) plan with company match

Eligibility for participation in an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution

Tuition reimbursement

Commuter benefits

Adoption assistance

Backup family care

Surrogacy benefits

Employee assistance

Wellness programs

Generous time-off program of 15 days of paid time off, 5 personal days and 9 sick days

Two volunteer service days

Military leave

Jury duty leave

Bereavement leave

Voting and election official leave for federal, state or local primary and general elections

Care of a family member leave (available after 90 days of employment)

Childbirth and parental leave (available after 90 days of employment)

Nine paid holidays

Company

FINRA

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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is an independent regulator for securities firms doing business in the U.S. It is a sub-organization of Thrivent.

Founded in 2007

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.finra.org

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