Director, Product Lifecycle Program Lead

Fitch Solutions is a leading provider of insights, data and analytics. It informs investment strategies, strengthens risk management capabilities and helps identify strategic opportunities. Its analysts, lawyers, journalists and economists offer in-depth views on credit markets/risk and individual credits, ESG, developed and emerging markets, and industry sectors. Fitch Solutions is part of Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services with operations in over 30 countries. Fitch Group is owned by Hearst. 

  

Step into a role on the Fitch Solutions Commercial Team, where your talent for fostering client relationships meets unparalleled opportunities for professional development and visibility in the financial market intelligence space. Joining us means immersing yourself in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, supported by the strong foundation of a leading financial services group. Our diverse portfolio of powerful brands and products showcases our commitment to collaboration and innovation, proving that we are stronger together. With numerous opportunities for growth and a culture that celebrates every success, the Fitch Solutions Commercial Team is where your career can thrive and you can make a meaningful impact. 

 

Fitch Solutions is currently seeking a Director, Product Lifecycle Program Lead, based out of our New York office.

 

Fitch Solutions is seeking a Product Lifecycle Program Lead for Product development support, pricing & packaging changes, and coordination on key commercial initiatives.

 

This role is accountable for maintaining the Product development Workflow standards and supporting materials. They are the lead facilitator in Product Development governance such as ensuring all Product Managers are suitably prepared for the QBR and facilitating that event.

 

They are accountable for the knowledge and understanding within the organization on the Product delivery workflow, covering communications and training.

 

They are the central point for Product management metrics, structuring and sharing holistic reports and updates.

 

The focus is on providing transparency on the portfolio of Product Managers’ delivery pipelines and hold them to account against value return.

 

In the short term, while our Product Management workflow is being developed the role will have responsibilities to connect the Business strategy,  Product, Pricing & Packaging and Commercial functions to create and manage product launch plans to enable transparent and coordinated implementation.

 

How You’ll Make an Impact: 

Outcomes & Launch Discipline

• Maintain and audit the Product delivery lifecycle process Co-own launch dates with Product, ensuring that launch timelines reflect delivery progress, viability, and GTM readiness.
• Provide end-to-end visibility of all active GTM Product Delivery and maintain a consistent, reusable framework from concept to implementation.

Product Management & Planning

• Prior to this being passed to Product Management, the role will create product launch plans that include workstreams, deliverables and dependencies by aggregating information from roadmaps, release schedules and pricing.
• Prior to a forthcoming Product Management workflow, the role will manage the Go To Market plans for new product launches, coordinating tasks, timelines, and RAID facilitation, holding a central plan for all parties to work towards.
• Maintain the framework and workflow for Product Development from concept though discovery and delivery to customer implementation and operational feedback. Ensure that the framework is understood, followed and iterated on to improve the customer centric decision making between Product, Strategic Pricing, Commercial, UX and Operations.
• Ensure that product roadmaps are correctly supported by Pricing / Packaging and have well defined implementation plans covering customer engagement, training, Client Services and Marketing.
• Ensure the Product management artefacts for effective QBR governance and  all aspects of Product Management workflow are correctly populated / submitted and that delivery commitments from Product Managers are upheld and that the regular reporting on delivery progress is correct and suitably shared.

Readiness, Decision Rights & Governance

• Clarify and document roles and responsibilities including  RACI and decision rights across Product, Strategic Pricing, Commercial, UX and Operations, and ensure issues have clear decision owners.
• Schedule and facilitate launch readiness reviews, track and ensure ownership of  action items, and document go/no-go decisions agreed by Product, Strategic Pricing, and Commercial leadership.

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