As a member of Consumer Products team, the Director is responsible helping to manage the multiple technologies that drive value in this area and the work efforts for the Modern Growth Platforms in this space from design through delivery. The Director will participate in Centralized Reservations Systems product roadmap development and work with multiple teams in the delivery of continuous business value. In addition, the role will support initiation of new business opportunities identified by business stakeholders for coordination across Enterprise Products teams and Core Platforms. The role will bridge technical and business worlds to ensure the consumer products are designed to meet business needs.

The Director is a Centralized Reservations Systems Products evangelist and subject matter expert and serves as a “go to resource” for timely updates to internal and, where applicable, external customers.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

Education and Required Experience

• 8+ years in technology, product management and/or business consulting, demonstrating progressive career growth and patterns of exceptional performance.
• Understands and able to discuss technology concepts and build consensus by translating between technical and non-technical audiences.
• Roadmap strategy and definition experience.
• Demonstrated ability to assess end user/customer needs, creatively approach solutions, and decide and influence appropriate course of action.
• Experience and success in technology integration and business process change on time, on budget, and with high client satisfaction.
• Experience and success in implementing new applications with complex data migration and deployment strategies
• Direct management of cross functional, sourced, and matrixed teams.
• Experience working directly with Architects and Engineers on product enhancements.
• Experience evaluating trade-offs and leading exploration of new opportunities with technical team members.
• Direct management of complex budgets more than $3M in direct and indirect costs.
• Experience building business cases to drive investment and resource decisions.
• Strong organizational skills with demonstrated ability to manage multiple high-complexity efforts and competing priorities.
• Robust analytical skills, including the ability to analyze data, draw conclusions, develop recommendations and report out.
• Ability to work through ambiguous and open-ended business requirements and priorities and translate the same into a clear roadmap and definition of success
• Ability to establish clear communication and storytelling via presentations, key performance metrics, reports and data.
• Strong interpersonal skills including team player that works well with counterparts from various functions/departments and has the ability to influence the work of counterparts without direct reporting accountability
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or equivalent experience

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

• Understand how our business and technology needs are evolving and provide insights and recommendations as you partner with key stakeholders to identify short-term solves, bridge strategies, and long-term visions for assigned product(s).
• Gather and detail product requirements from stakeholders across the organization to inform roadmap items; evaluate technical complexity of requirements in order to appropriately prioritize work and manage expectations cross-functionally.
• Develop and lead the technology roadmap and backlog to implement specific product capabilities, ensuring critical requirements are identified, the best solutions for the end user are delivered every time, and alignment with broader group and portfolio objectives.
• Advocate for the end user by developing a deep understanding of their needs through feedback and research.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team members to drive value and develop customer friendly features and enhancements.
• Provide direction for the technology development, including cost estimation, budget management, scope and delivery strategy definition, and establish milestones/schedules.
• Work with Sr. Business Analysts to guide them in writing user stories and acceptance test criteria for features and detailed functional & nonfunctional requirements for the engineering teams.
• Partner with solution architects and software engineers to determine best technical implementation methods as well as a reasonable implementation schedule.
• Plan delivery, integration & test, and post-launch support for all the elements required in product delivery and operation working with applicable teams.
• Manage project/scrum teams based upon roadmap(s). Meet regularly with the team(s) to gather work statuses, discuss obstacles, provide advice, guidance, encouragement, and constructive feedback to ensure deliverables are met timely.
• Maintains high performance levels by attracting, developing and retaining talent, managing performance, building career paths, and aligning performance and rewards to company goals.
• Contribute to end user support artifacts/information/collateral development including feature/capability descriptions, end user business value stories, etc.
• Actively drives adoption of Technology operating model changes.
• Champion excellence in business ethics and integrity, social responsibility, cross-cultural effectiveness, and associate engagement.