Sr. Director, Product Management

Company: TransUnion
Location: Chicago
Posted on: April 10, 2021

Job Description:

What We'll Bring:We are seeking a Sr. Director of Product Management for our Credit Risk Solutions team. This role will lead Product Management for TransUnion's Core Credit Risk Solutions.
Credit Risk Solutions is at the core of TransUnion, responsible for the success of TransUnion's solutions that help our Customers make risk-based decisions. We partner with the breadth of TransUnion's organization to develop and set our solution strategy, prioritization, go-to-market, sales, distribution and ensure our solutions meet and exceed our Customer's needs. Along with our partners, we are accountable for our solutions' performance, and ensure we remain within appropriate legal and regulatory boundaries, always keeping the end-Consumer's needs in mind.What You'll Bring:Overall Responsibility

• End-to-end responsibility covering product strategy/ innovation, feature requirements and definition, GTM, commercialization, ongoing product health and maintenance; leads cross-functional teams and ensures alignment across all stakeholder groups
• Owns product vision, business prioritization and roadmap; develops business cases and advocates for investment as needed, which includes partnering with Market (revenue) and IT (investment) teams
• Spends time with clients capturing VOC and applying design thinking principles to understand their problems and needs; works with product development teams writing comprehensive product epics and defining solution intent and high-level capabilities
• Participates in Agile ceremonies, influences PI Objectives and Release content via prioritized Features and Enablers. Has scope of authority for setting PI priorities; establishes feature acceptance criteria and jointly accepts as done with Product Owner
• Thought leader and evangelist for both external and internal audiences
• Applies a commercial, user-centric mindset to build robust, market-back GTM strategies that are based on developing targeted needs-based market segments; informs pricing
• Ensures the successful roll-out of new products to Market & Sales teams, supports the development and delivery of comprehensive product training
• Monitors and analyzes product financials, KPIs, customer feedback, and the competitive landscape to identify gaps, weaknesses and opportunities in any part of product delivery
• Manages overall product health including the business prioritization of backlog, ongoing product support and product sunset strategies
• Shares accountability for the overall revenue performanceHow you will contribute
  • Develop market- back product strategies grounded in COV
  • Deliver commercially successful products and solutions that achieve broad adoption within identified segments and that meet/exceed revenue and profitability targets
  • Globally connected and supportive product strategies
  • Increases market perception of TransUnion as a market leader and thought leader by generating and presenting industry and client insights, developing thought leadership and leveraging speaker platforms
  • Delivers monthly forecasting reports and dashboards that provide clarity and transparency across KPIs in product, sales, & IT to monitor product adoption and GTM executionImpact You'll Make:What you will bring to the role
    • 15+ years of leadership experience in Product Management; demonstrated success launching and driving adoption of new products while leading cross-functional product teams
    • Strategic thinker with experience building net-new products as well as adapting existing products to create new/ increased value
    • Experience writing, presenting and defending investment/ business cases
    • Problem-solving, design-thinking, customer-centric mindset; highly curious with a positive "can do" attitude
    • Experience developing product roadmaps for data and/or technical solutions in a B2B environment
    • Strong communicator, cross functionally and at all levels of the organization with demonstrated ability to create followership
    • Relationship-oriented, strong collaborator that is adept at leading through influence; experience thriving in complex, matrix organizations
    • Experience working in Agile development methodologies
    • Strong people leader with experience managing teams, developing and growing talent
    • Bachelor's degree in engineering or one of the hard sciences desired
    • MBA or other Master's degree from a top-tier university preferredWe are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law. TransUnion's Internal Job Title: Sr Director, Product Management TransUnion is a global information and insights company that makes trust possible between businesses and consumers, by ensuring that each consumer is reliably and safely represented in the marketplace. We do this by having an accurate and comprehensive picture of each person. This picture is grounded in our legacy as a credit reporting agency which enables us to tap into both credit and public record data; our data fusion methodology that helps us link, match and tap into the awesome combined power of that data; and our knowledgeable and passionate team, who stewards the information with expertise, and in accordance with local legislation around the world. Because of our work, organizations can better understand consumers in order to make more informed decisions, and earn their trust through great, personalized experiences, and the proactive extension of the right opportunities, tools and offers. In turn, consumers can be confident that their data identities will result in the opportunities they deserve. We make trust possible, so businesses and consumers can transact with confidence and achieve great things. We call this Information for Good---it's our purpose, and what drives us every day.

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