Sr. Director - Product Owner

Provide strategic and operational leadership to Product Owners. Prioritize programs of work for their Agile teams and identify new opportunities for the business. Partner with key stakeholders to define goals, success criteria and measurable outcomes for delivering ongoing value. Collaborate effectively with key leaders and partner organizations to deliver outcomes. Responsible for the ultimate delivery of scope and quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Prioritize programs of work and assess quality of outcomes. Ensure delivery of scope and assess for continuous improvement.  Identify new opportunities to drive value and deepen customer relationship through ongoing assessment of customer needs and goals. Adjust product strategy in partnership with teams. 

• Create compelling product vision - develop and execute product roadmap with a focus on measurable business outcomes. Understand business strategy and customer goals.  Define Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) for the customer and business and regularly monitor progress toward goals. Regularly track and share progress with stakeholders and team.

• Lead three or more Product Owners. Provide people leadership through effective coaching, feedback and sound performance management practices.  Act as champion for the team and intervene on matters that create roadblocks to individual or organizational success. Set department initiatives and aligns and sets individual performance goals.

• Serve as engagement point for shared services teams. Collaborate with key leaders and partner organizations to deliver outcomes. Serve as key communication point for VP leaders in Interactive Marketing to ensure they remain informed and updated on progress toward goals and key information. 

• Manage annual product budget to effectively deliver products in collaboration with Product Owner Managers and Sr Managers.

Required Qualifications

• Hands on experience as product manager of software based solutions.

• Strong written and verbal communications skills, including the ability to clearly articulate concepts and rationale.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills with ability to collect absorb and analyze info quickly and independently. 
• Highly motivated and influential leader with ability to take initiative, set priorities and perform tasks with minimal guidance.
• Proven experience in managing priorities, strategies, relationships.
• Experience with Jira and other tools to support agile methodology.
• Experience with setting technology strategy in alignment with business priorities.
• Experience working in a leadership capacity directing the outcomes of staff in an Agile structure.
• Executive communication skills verbal and written and the ability to communicate complex technical information in simpler terms.

About Our Company
We’re a diversified financial services leader with more than $1 trillion in assets under management and administration. Our team of 20,000 people in more than 20 countries advise, manage and protect the assets and income of more than 2 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a long-standing leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses - Ameriprise Financial Services, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world.

Ameriprise Financial is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, age, sexual orientation, citizenship, gender identity, disability, veteran status, marital status, family status or any other basis prohibited by law.

Full-Time/Part-Time

Full time

Exempt/Non-Exempt

Exempt

Job Family Group

Business Support & Operations

Line of Business

MARKT Marketing