Product Engineering Director

Product Engineering Director

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Job Overview

The Product Engineering Director manages multiple teams through other managers. In-depth understanding of how own sub-function contributes to achieving the objectives of the function. A good understanding of the industry, direct competitors' products and services, is also necessary in order to contribute to the commercial objectives of the business. Requires thorough understanding of strategic direction of the function within the relevant part of the business, combined with a solid conceptual / practical grounding in both the function and / or area of expertise and related subject areas. Excellent communication skills required in order to negotiate internally, often at a senior level. Some external communication / negotiation may be necessary. Responsible for executing functional strategy in area managed. Determines approach to implementing functional strategy. Accountable for end results, budgeting, planning, policy formulation and contribution to future strategy of the area(s). Impact reflects size of team managed, strategic influence on the business and interaction with other functions or businesses. Full management responsibility for multiple teams, including management of people, budget and planning, to include duties such as performance evaluation, compensation, hiring, disciplinary actions and terminations and budget approval. May be doing involved or responsible for diverse (cross-discipline) activities. Typically, a direct report to a C16 role and function as an intergral member of the functional leadership team within a country / site location, job family, or line of business Responsibilities :

• Ensure team culture consistently demonstrates alignment with leadership principles; visibly ties department decisions to leadership principles
• Owns long-term strategic view (3-5 years) and complete platform portfolio within his / her category / division
• Builds strong partnership with the business stakeholders to help drive strategic direction and investment decisions.
• Owns development and communicates the long-term vision and goals that drive the working backwards strategies for a portfolio of platform products
• Understands domain and competitive landscape; may lead company-wide decision making for the platform product domain
• Inspires a culture of "test and learn" experimentation and innovation to solve core business and end customer needs in the platform product domain
• Leverages customer research, feedback, competitive analysis and industry trends to drive investment choices that will cultivate long-term innovation for the business and customer.
• Owns "test and learn" roadmap to inform the platform product portfolio
• Owns the organizational planning and serves as the representative to Executives
• Compiles content for periodic Exec level communications, reviews and updates
• Continuously monitors the KPIs of portfolio and reviews regularly with technology peers and business partners
• Primary interface with the Business and stakeholders
• Makes trade off decisions for category / division platform product portfolio
• Owns business and platform requirements for a large enterprise or portfolio of platform products
• Sets the direction for the platform design for a large enterprise or portfolio of platform products
• Determines release goals for a large enterprise portfolio of platform products
• Creates a comprehensive user experience for an entire customer domain using various design thinking techniques
• Develops method for prioritization and triage of new changes and defects for team to apply, makes key decisions on showstoppers and end product quality
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

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Job Description

The Product Engineering Director is responsible for defining product strategy, working across Citi to engage applications teams to identity the need for new cloud products and services. The product manager will be responsible for cloud product service lifecycle, and new feature and product roadmaps. The Product Engineering Director will be instrumental in managing all products from design to implementation to ongoing performance monitoring according to business need and ensure that Citi makes appropriate strategic choices in onboarding, managing, and exiting of vendors from the product portfolio. The role requires a talented technologist with experience or working directly with engineering teams to delivery cloud services and products in an iterative, agile way. Objectives of this role :

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