Pulte Group

Director Product Management

Pulte Group$120K — $145K *
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8-10 years of relevant experience required
  • Strong background in product management or as a product owner
  • Ability to influence decision-making across various stakeholders
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office 365 tools
  • Demonstrated experience in driving customer-centric solutions

Responsibilities

  • Assess current product capabilities and define future needs
  • Create and adjust product roadmaps based on business and customer insights
  • Maintain effective relationships with stakeholders for transparent communication
  • Collaborate with teams to leverage technology and improve business results
  • Ensure the Agile team has valuable backlog and prioritization
  • Establish metrics to evaluate product features and performance
  • Lead vendor selection and management processes

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence departmental strategies and decisions
  • Exposure to high-level leadership interactions
  • Position contributes to both product management best practices and education
  • Engagement in continuous learning and industry trend analysis
  • Involvement in talent management, including hiring and performance development
Full Job Description
Primary Job Responsibilities
  • Understand the current-state product capabilities and envision the future-state needs.
  • Develop and evolve product roadmaps based on business priorities, data and customer insights that deliver the highest value.
  • Ensure appropriate alignment and balance the needs between operational business objectives, IT objectives, and financial objectives.
  • Build and foster strong relationships with key stakeholders and maintain a regular cadence for communications and expectation setting for product stakeholders and executives to enable trust and transparency.
  • Partner with architects, designers and developers in determining how to best apply technology innovations, combined with business process change, to achieve dramatic improvement in business results.
  • Establish, track and adjust metrics for the features/functions of the product(s)
  • Ensure the Agile development team has a healthy backlog of work with high business value, providing input on prioritization.
  • Create and maintain customer feedback loops.
  • Chair project steering committees.
  • Track and manage issues and risks.
  • Recruit, select, coach and develop team members.
  • Conduct performance & development reviews per HR guidelines. Takes corrective actions, including Performance Improvement Plans & terminations, when necessary.
  • Identify and work with potential vendors to ensure a strong, well-understood selection process is used for the vendor and their systems, and their implementation plan and professional services are aligned with our needs.
  • Provide oversight of existing vendors to ensure ongoing effective system use, release management, and support.
  • Ensure intended benefits are realized and work with the team to continuously assess progress, disseminate lessons learned, and understand next steps.
  • Closely follow industry trends, and demonstrate a passion and motivation for continuous learning.
  • Contributes to and champions PulteGroup product management education, best practices, methods, standards and processes.

Career Level (M5)

Organizational Impact:
  • Recommends operational plans and strategies that will directly impact the achievement of overall department results.
  • Directs the execution of strategies established by senior leadership. Establishes operational plans for job area with short to mid-term impact on results (e.g., 1 - 2 Years).
  • Work requires a high degree of responsibility for resources and frequently influences business decisions made by senior leadership.
  • Typically has budget accountability for the department or sub-function.


Leadership & Talent Management:
  • Manages a department or smaller sub-function which includes multiple teams led by managers and/or supervisors.
  • Responsible for creating workforce and staffing plans for department/sub-function to ensure availability of human capital necessary to accomplish departmental goals.
  • Typically, has hiring, firing, promotion and reward authority within own area, in accordance with organizational guidelines.


Knowledge & Experience:
  • Requires deep management and leadership knowledge to lead cross-department project or program teams or manage across multiple sub-functions.
  • Typically has mastery within a specific technical discipline/area or broad expertise across multiple related disciplines.
  • Typically requires a university degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8-10 years prior relevant experience.


Required Skills
  • Demonstrated ability to identify business needs and collaborate with cross-functional teams without direct management or oversight.
  • Clear understanding of best-in-class business processes as it relates to assigned business area
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Proficiency in identifying goals, metrics and analytics to measure product value.
  • Proven ability to influence decision-making across various contexts.
  • Experience operating as a product manager or product owner.
  • Experience in driving innovation and influencing teams with a strong focus on the end user.
  • Experience building customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 tools including Word, Excel, Outlook, OneNote and PowerPoint.


Required Licensing, Registration and/or Certifications
  • Not applicable


Physical Requirements:
  • May require travel.

About Pulte Group

PulteGroup, Inc. is an American residential home construction company based in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The company is the 3rd largest home construction company in the United States based on the number of homes closed. In total, the company has built over 775,000 homes. The company operates in 44 markets in 23 states. In 2021, it ranked 284th on the Fortune 500. The company was founded by Bill Pulte in Michigan, and moved its headquarters to Atlanta, Georgia in 2014. Since 2016, Ryan Marshall has been the President and CEO of the company.
Learn more about Pulte Group
Size
6,182 employees
Market Cap
$10.5 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1.4 billion
5 Year Trend
+12.7%
Revenue
$11 billion
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