Job Description:
Role
Cash Solutions Save and Lend Product Area is seeking an accomplished product leader with a passion for engaging partners across various business units to pioneer a new level of insights and program management as Group Squad Leader. You will bring deep experience in large-scale program management, with a proven track record in how to constructively shape strategy and decision-making. As a leader engaged with multiple executives across the four business units, you’ll use your polished executive presence, passion for problem-solving, and persistent curiosity to forge partnerships, create and deliver on a strategic roadmap, and bring actionable value to the business. Working with partners throughout and beyond Cash Solutions, you’ll ensure our Save and Lend products and capabilities deliver on the future needs of our customers.
The Value You Deliver
As part of this leadership role, some key responsibilities will include:
Manage and execute product roadmap & strategy alignment with Product Area strategy
Co-manage unified product backlog, developed by engaging squad leaders to break down, prioritize, plan and execute against
Influence, inform and align product strategies with partners
Deliver on roadmap by defining & sequencing delivery Sub-Initiatives that have been prioritized by Product Area Leaders & engineering functional leaders
Define, track and achieve all product-related KPIs, including business value, technology lifecycle management & talent, that align directly to Product Area and business-set KPIs
Manage Squad Leaders who are focused on delivery of the product capabilities and features
Consult with functional leaders (GCL/CL), who own workforce planning, about talent acquisition & planning, including number of resources, skills & competency requirements and mobility
Lead and enable
Key Agile and portfolio routines:
Engage in a consistent set of standard delivery routines. Includes appropriate functional leaders in routines based on stage of product lifecycle. Assess, discuss & action a consistent set of standard delivery metrics that drive team performance.
Quarterly Group Squad Reviews & Planning & Regular Scrum of Scrums (if cross-team execution applicable)
Quarterly Strategic Initiative Reviews & Planning & Quarterly Product Area Reviews & Planning
The Expertise You Have
Bachelor’s Degree required
Minimum 12 years of deep technical product management experience and working with key stakeholders enabling product development and delivery
5+ years successfully leading and developing teams with diverse capabilities and experience
The Skills You Bring
Significant
understanding of the financial industry and depth of experience in Agile practices and tools; including prioritization of backlog
Depth of technical acumen and background
Proven success in
managing technical strategic decisions, day-to-day technical oversight, and talent support of squad leaders
collaborating across leadership teams with competing priorities and key dependencies to achieve deliverables
championing recommendations and influencing decisions at all levels of management
translating complex technical issues into understandable, synthesized executive briefs
Advanced level of knowledge of multiple disciplines required to perform at a senior level.
Excellent verbal/verbal skills and executive presence
Cross BU work experience a plus
The Team
Fidelity’s Cash Solutions domain has critical building blocks for our customers. Our vision is to expand the role Fidelity can play for our customers in this critical area of their finances, by offering innovative capabilities to serve the spending and saving needs of new and existing customers.
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Product ManagementFidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.
