Director, Products

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Convert strategic deliverables into comprehensive, actionable execution plans spanning design, technology, and content workstreams.

• Develop and sustain product roadmaps that link strategic vision to tactical implementation milestones.

• Establish sprint planning frameworks that align with strategic goals.

• Identify, monitor, and report on KPIs and OKRs.

• Recognize, document, and manage dependencies across various workstreams.

• Organize work to enhance parallel progress while honoring technical and creative dependencies.

• Highlight risks and obstacles impacting cross-team delivery.

• Lead dependency resolution meetings and ensure team alignment on critical path items.

• Act as the main point of contact with client stakeholders for scheduling, feedback cycles, and status updates.

• Oversee feedback collection, prioritization, and integration into sprint cycles.

• Facilitate decision-making processes with client leadership.

• Coordinate design and development transitions as Figma components are generated.

• Manage the progress of Storybook implementation and ensure design-development alignment.

• Monitor component development from design through implementation and testing phases.

• Ensure adherence to design system governance and quality standards.

• Coordinate frontend, backend, and infrastructure teams for comprehensive delivery.

• Prioritize token development, component creation, and design system evolution in collaboration with brand stakeholders.

• Handle brand-specific customization requests within the design system framework.

• Maintain and prioritize product backlogs across various workstreams.

• Utilize prioritization frameworks such as RICE, WSJF, and Value vs. Effort.

• Conduct sessions for backlog refinement.

• Make decisions regarding scope, timelines, and quality trade-offs.

• Lead sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.

• Define and enhance user stories with clear acceptance criteria.

• Ensure team velocity and capacity planning align with delivery commitments.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience as a Product Owner or in a similar capacity (Business Analyst) within agile environments.

• Proven history of managing intricate, multi-workstream digital initiatives.

• Experience in bridging strategy and execution in enterprise settings.

• Demonstrated success in managing cross-functional teams and dependencies.

• Comprehensive understanding of digital ecosystem architecture, including headless CMS platforms and content management techniques.

• Familiarity with AI-driven search and discovery systems.

• Knowledge of data platforms and analytics integration.

• Understanding of design system architecture and component libraries.

• Knowledge of enterprise content strategy and governance.

• Familiarity with contemporary front-end development workflows, such as Figma, Storybook, and component libraries.

• Insight into design tokens, atomic design principles, and design system methodologies.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to a diverse audience.

• Experience in managing client relationships and expectations in consulting or agency settings.

• Proficient in facilitating challenging conversations and achieving consensus.

• Proven capability to handle competing priorities and stakeholder interests.

• Strong expertise in agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid approaches.

• Familiarity with agile tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.

• Ability to adapt agile practices to fit organizational context and constraints.

• Preferred: Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification.

• Preferred: Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) certification.

• Preferred: Experience with design systems at scale across various brands or properties.

• Preferred: Background in UX design, content strategy, or technical architecture.

• Preferred: Experience in highly regulated industries or complex organizational structures.

• Preferred: Prior consulting or agency experience in managing client delivery.

• Preferred: Experience in prototyping.

🏝️ Benefits

• Temporary employees are entitled to paid holidays in accordance with dentsu policy.

• Safe and sick time.