Director, Digital Products

Director, Digital Products

Country: United States of America

It Starts Here:

Santander is a global leader and innovator in the financial services industry and is evolving from a high-impact brand into a technology-driven organization. Our people are at the heart of this journey and together, we are driving a customer-centric transformation that values bold thinking, innovation, and the courage to challenge what’s possible.  This is more than a strategic shift.  It’s a chance for driven professionals to grow, learn, and make a real difference.

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The Difference You Make:
The Director, Digital Products oversees a team accountable for defining digital product strategy, engagement, and best in class customer experiences. The incumbent leads, coaches, inspires and motivates a team to create and deliver truly remarkable, influential and impactful work.

• Leads the strategic development of the digital cards area with a focus on developing new products / features, to present and defend proposals to senior management on innovation committees.
• Provides direction and contribute to the development, testing, and refinement of digital innovations.
• Conducts channel/product gap analysis, competitive research and industry evaluations to extract actionable insights to inform the digital strategy and determine the long-term digital roadmap.
• Encourages progressive thinking and the pushing of boundaries.
• Performs project requirements gathering and definition through consultation with subject matter experts.
• Collaborates with external digital agency partners on a regular basis.
• Participates in business case development, writing, and delivery as well as ROI-projections.

What You Bring:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience: Technology-related field. - Required.
• Master's Degree: - Preferred.

• 9+ Years Related experience. - Required.

• Extensive knowledge of project management and advanced leadership skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong trusted relationships and foster collaboration and teamwork in a variety of settings.
• Advanced knowledge of project and portfolio management tools (i.e. Clarity, Visio, Excel, MS Project, PowerPoint, etc.).
• Demonstrated effectiveness at using influence persuasion and negotiation to find agreeable exchange and reach positive outcomes.
• Master of complex facilitation and dependency management techniques (cross team, cross department).
• Ability to demonstrate and apply sensitivity to enterprise and bank points of view as well as understanding similarities and differences to create a balanced approach.
• Ability to engage the support and resources of others to achieve project goals and objectives; influencing without authority.
• Ability to enable individuals to work effectively as they plan, implement, and experience change.
• Ability to create a strong network of relationships among peers, internal partners, external constituencies and decision makers to deliver end-products.
• Ability to communicate effectively with senior leadership on matters of strategic importance.
• Ability to influence business decisions made by leadership.
• Ability to scope out and develop work plan and resource requirements and estimate costs and risks associated with activities.
• Ability to develop and coach others indirectly or directly and serve as a role model.
• Ability to anticipate reactions and positions of others.
• Ability to manage resources, set scope, time scales, and deliverables, recognizing changing requirements and addressing. program/project impacts.
• Pragmatic problem-solver, forward thinker with independence of thought.

Certifications:

• No Certifications listed for this job.

It Would Be Nice For You To Have:

• Established work history or equivalent demonstrated through a combination of work experience, training, military service, or education.
• Experience in Microsoft Office products.

What Else You Need To Know:

The base pay range for this position is posted below and represents the annualized salary range. For hourly positions (non-exempt), the annual range is based on a 40-hour work week. The exact compensatio