• Shape the Product Management Function: Lead BECU’s enterprise product management function, including the product management lifecycle, operating model, governance, tools, processes, controls, and continuous improvement practices.
• Coach and Develop Talent: Provide ongoing coaching, mentoring, and training to support employee growth and performance, and meet with staff in a timely manner to conduct performance evaluations.
• Build Consistent Standards: Implement and oversee product management standards across BECU to strengthen role clarity, product maturity, execution discipline, and the effectiveness of product leaders.
• Guide the Enterprise Roadmap: Drive the creation and ongoing maintenance of the BECU-level product roadmap, aligning it with enterprise strategy, portfolio priorities, product plans, technology capacity, and execution commitments.
• Grow Product Leadership: Identify enterprise product leadership needs, define roles, hire talent, support onboarding, and continuously coach product leaders.
• Lead Through Influence: Develop a team of product coaches while providing matrix leadership and dotted-line accountability for product leaders across BECU.
• Resolve Enterprise Constraints: Implement processes to identify, escalate, and resolve dependencies, issues, risks, capacity constraints, and tradeoffs that affect product execution or strategic outcomes.
• Strengthen Cross-Product Decisions: Establish and lead a Product Council that improves alignment, strengthens decision-making, and resolves tactical and strategic execution issues.
• Connect Plans and Priorities: Integrate product roadmaps, dependencies, funding decisions, and delivery plans in partnership with business, technology, portfolio, finance, risk, and senior leadership stakeholders.
• Advise Senior Leaders: Provide regular updates and recommendations to executive and senior leadership forums on product roadmap progress, execution risks, capacity challenges, issue resolution, and priority changes.