Marketing Analytics at Vanguard is excited to welcome a new Product Manager to our team! This role resides within Vanguard's Chief Data and Analytics Office (CDAO) supporting our Personal Investor Division, specifically. The Product Manager will provide support to our Personal Investor, Marketing product families, while partnering across the PI CDAO subdivision and Marketing business teams to drive efficiencies, standardization, and to enable our teams to deliver the highest value work.
The responsibilities of this role include owning the yearly, quarterly, and within sprint prioritization sessions with our business partners, implementing our value based prioritization framework and demand rationalization across our portfolio, and will be a critical partner to us and the Marketing business to ensure strong alignment and execution of our priorities. The PO will also own our suite of critical reports and dashboards and will be responsible for creating and driving a strategy and roadmap for how to evolve our reporting products to support the evolving Marketing business.
This Product Owner will have the opportunity to regularly interact with Marketing senior leaders, establish a working model with our critical offshore partners, and CDAO senior leadership. As such, strong communication and stakeholder management skills are critical to success in this role.
Minimal Requirements
- Experience supporting Marketing Products in D&A
- 8 years working as a Product Owner/Manager
Core Responsibilities
1. Leads technical product management activities for multiple technical products, or one strategic technical product, with cross-divisional impact. Drives the design and continuous improvement of the technical solution.
2. Influences and collaborates with cross-functional teams to create best practices that drive significant change to the client experience. Ensures business outcomes are linked to business case drivers.
3. Coaches technical product teams towards best practices and learnings. Oversees product teams' support of the messaging, communication, and customer outreach as necessary.
4. Facilitates strong business support through working with team members to promote a consistent approach to decisions/impacts and client propositions. Drives connection across all appropriate internal and external stakeholders.
5. Leads the planning, development and implementation of new technical products with cross-divisional impact. Defines and analyzes technical markets, developing detailed product features and requirements, and developing implementation plans.
6. Influences and employs a variety of qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques to continually improve the user experience.
7. Participates in and influences ongoing business planning and departmental prioritization activities.
8. Drives the team’s engineering practices in development, continuous integration, and automated deployment.
9. Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required. Graduate degree preferred.Minimum of eight years related business experience. Three years of leading large cross-functional teams on major organizational projects preferred.
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
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Vanguard’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is central to our ability to deliver on our mission. We aspire to create a work environment that is inclusive, equitable, and diverse—one that enables our employees, whom we call crew, to thrive and bring their best selves to work every day on behalf of our clients.
Cultivating DEI lifts our entire organization, and everyone shares accountability for our progress—from our senior leaders who lay the foundation and set the example for inclusive behaviors to crew who are growing in their personal DEI learning experiences.
Together, we’re on a mission. We are fueled by the value of diverse voices and connected through friendships and a culture of care—for our clients, our communities, and each other.
Vanguard’s DEI journey has no finish line. Our commitment is enduring, and we remain focused on the path ahead. To learn more about Vanguard goals and progress toward DEI, download our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report.
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Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.