Director of Product Management

New American Funding is seeking a dynamic Director of Product Management to drive product execution and strategy through effective team leadership. The role involves coaching Product Managers and Product Owners, developing product vision and strategy, and improving product alignment across the company.

Responsibilities:

• Build, manage, and develop a talented, diverse, equitable and inclusive teams of Product Managers and Product Owners
• Create, assess, update, and communicate a clear product vision and strategy
• Work with cross functional leaders to remove roadblocks
• Grow to understand the company value stream as well as company’s consumers, partners, internal teams, competitors, and market
• Manage multiple priorities, scale teams, and ensure the org is effective, healthy, and set up for success by establishing clear and measurable goals and holding people and teams accountable
• Advocate for the product and its value internally with executives and externally as needed
• Fluent in Product Management skillset and able to upskill the team
• Familiar with Cloud technologies and Agile ways of working
• Can identify and instantiate mechanisms to improve the flow of work through the organization
• Strong data driven decision making skills with experience in building business cases, measuring progress, and identifying changes to strategy
• Strong familiarity with multiple prioritization frameworks (WSJF, RICE, etc) and comfortable leveraging data to support prioritization
• Demonstrated and Proven comfort in an Epic -> Feature -> User Story requirements model and understands how to leverage Technical Enablers to drive the path forward
• Proven ability to take product to market either internally or externally
• In partnership with the VP of Product Management and peers, define and follow robust product development processes and practices, along with other teams in the company
• Evaluate growth options, assess new opportunities, and identify bottlenecks. This includes turning strategy into cross-functional aligned tactics
• Ensure that the product and executive team have a shared vision of how the product is and evolves in the future
• Strong communicator and presentation skills

Requirements:

• At least 10 years of experience in product management
• 5 years or more of leadership experience leading product teams (Product Managers AND Product Owners)
• Strong background and experience working with APIs and backend services
• Familiarity and/or experience working with Encompass required
• Strong working knowledge of Agile frameworks including SCRUM, Kanban, and Scaled Agile Frameworks
• Experience and confidence presenting to senior and executive leadership
• Experience partnering with multiple teams across the organization driving mindful discussions that lead to agreement, crisp decisions, and results
• Great people skills in combination with great assertiveness
• Baseline understanding of Cloud technologies inclusive of Azure services
• Strong analytical, strategic, and coordination skills
• Leadership and entrepreneurship traits that people are comfortable following
• High-level motivational skills for the management of virtual teams
• Ability to interpret results through multiple lens (e.g. qualitative, financial, and long-term strategic value) to provide a recommendation
• Knowledge in the mortgage industry mandatory
• Process minded individual who has prior experience establishing new processes to support team
• Work Authorization: Must be able to verify identity and employment eligibility to work in the U.S