Director, Product Management

Job Description:

The Role

The Application Data Solutions organization in Fidelity Wealth Technology is looking for a seasoned product manager/ program manager to help us execute our strategy, meet our performance objectives and deliverables, and streamline our work in a number of areas, including strategic development, communications, and execution of large-scale modernization/decommission initiatives.

About You

• Skilled at operationalizing and organizing complex projects, processes, and procedures.
• Passionate about providing excellent experiences and levels of service to our partners and customers.
• A results-oriented and highly self-motivated individual.
• A critical thinker, who enjoys solving complex problems in innovative ways.
• Someone who loves learning new things, and continually looks for ways to expand your skills and evolve as a leader.
• Adaptable, thrive in dynamic environments, and enjoy working on a highly diverse team.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• 7 – 10 years’ experience working in a combination of the following: financial services, agile technology environments, and/or digital accessibility.
• Superior verbal and written communication skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Experience managing complex projects and programs that impact organizational direction and change the culture.
• Knowledge of how to use data to show value, progress, and trends.
• Ability to make informed trade-off decisions to strike the right balance between quality, cost, and timelines.
• Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to juggle multiple projects at a time.
• Ability to form strong relationships and display a high degree of executive presence.
• Ability to navigate sophisticated relationships, forge critical partnerships, and influence effectively.
• Proven track record of success when working in agile environments, including the ability to use various agile methodologies like scrum and kanban, and work with associated applications like Jira and Jira Align.
• Ability to break down and organize sophisticated concepts, analyze information, and communicate findings.

Key Responsibilities

• Developing and executing complex, multi-faceted strategies to drive the execution of large-scale modernization/decommission initiatives.
• Planning and coordinating cross-team and cross-business workstreams to achieve alignment and address common goals.
• Managing relationships with vendors to ensure contracts are executed and deliverables are met.
• Creating and operationalizing complex processes and procedures to streamline work, gain efficiencies, and build scalable and repeatable frameworks.
• Identifying, supervising, and managing budgets and resources across numerous products, services, and programs.
• Maintaining awareness of industry trends and emerging technologies to keep activities relevant and forward-thinking.
• Consolidating and summarizing large amounts of visual information (e.g., Excel Spreadsheets, diagrams, and Power Point slides) into accessible formats.
• Using a customer-focused approach to provide partners and stakeholders with products and services that are enjoyable, intuitive, and easy to use.
• Helping to create an accessibility-centric culture by increasing awareness and empathy and promoting adoption of new tools and behaviors.
• Build out sophisticated, coordinated roadmaps.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or other advanced degree.
• Understands how to navigate Fidelity with knowledge of its organizational structure and key players.

The Team

The Application Data Solutions team for Fidelity Wealth provides our business and technology partners with flexible, self-service, cloud-enabled and reusable data solutions.  In addition, this team is leading the effort to modernize our legacy solutions, while providing the primary support for the application databases used by the Fidelity Wealth lines of business.

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Category:

Product Management

Fidelity’s working model blends the best of working offsite with maximizing time together in person to meet associate and business needs. Currently, most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite all business days of one assigned week per four-week period (beginning in September 2024, the requirement will be two full assigned weeks).