Sr. Director, Product Management, Organizational Strategy, KF Digital - Korn Ferry US
Dallas, TX 75201
About the Job
Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. We help clients synchronize strategy and talent to drive superior performance. Korn Ferry works with organizations to design their structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people to bring their strategy to life. And we advise them on how to reward, develop, and motivate their people. Our 10,000 colleagues serve clients in more than 50 countries.
Korn Ferry Digital is a scaled product business unit within Korn Ferry that develops and sells our suite of talent products and HR technology, supporting clients across six solution areas:
- Organizational Strategy
- Assessment and Succession
- Talent Acquisition
- Leadership and Professional Development
- Sales and Service
- Total Rewards
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Job description
Within the organizational strategy solution, Korn Ferry Digital offers KF Listen and Profile Manager, sophisticated tools that align organizational objectives with talent management strategies. KF Listen captures employee feedback and engagement data, providing actionable insights to enhance organizational culture and performance. Profile Manager helps organizations create and manage success profiles, ensuring alignment between individual roles and strategic goals. The growth of KF Digital in this domain is driven by the seamless integration of these solutions, enabling organizations to foster a high-performance culture and achieve strategic objectives effectively.
OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE YOUR CAREER - It's about exceeding your potential.
We're seeking a Senior Director who will drive the development and growth of our innovative SaaS based applications used by organizations globally to design roles and organizational structures.
In this role, you will be responsible for defining the vision, strategy, and roadmap for our applications. You will work closely with customers, stakeholders, developers, designers, and other product managers to deliver products that meet the needs of our diverse and demanding markets.
You will also be involved in researching customer needs, validating product ideas, prioritizing features, writing user stories, testing prototypes, launching products, and measuring outcomes. You will be the voice of the customer and the champion of the product within the organization.
You'll partner with commercial teams, solution consultants, external vendors, product managers, data science, data engineers, architects, and engineers to contribute to the overall success of the team's roadmap and initiatives. This position reports to the Solution, General Manager for Organization Strategy.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provides the guiding vision for the product and acts as a business leader of the product.
- Works closely with other business functions to understand needs and translates them into appropriate application functionality.
- Leads and defines product line strategy, product roadmaps, and identifies business opportunities. Analyzes market research to define the competitive landscape and drive innovation.
- Uncovers customer pain points and identifies market opportunities through constant direct and indirect interaction with customers, prospects, go-to-market leaders, and analysts.
- Creates business cases and seeks approval for funding from senior leadership.
- Partners with vendors to understand product growth potential and future opportunities for innovation.
- Works with vertical business leaders and go-to-market teams to create, launch, and scale packaged solutions for our market-leading customers to improve their end-user experiences.
- Identifies opportunities to adopt Artificial Intelligence to drive better user outcomes.
- Builds strategic partnerships/relationships with stakeholders across the organization.
- Works with decentralized agile development teams (process, design, build, test) to deliver products.
- Engages in technical conversations, weighs technology choices, and communicates broadly.
- Manages all aspects of product capability throughout the product life cycle, from definition to sunset.
- Evaluates and reports on current product line performance and usage. Leads the post-implementation support effort from a functional and training perspective.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS
- Creative thinker, problem solver, and innovator.
- At least 8 - 12 years of progressive experience in product management, preferably in a related industry or field
- Demonstrated experience leading and managing a team of product management professionals
- Demonstrated knowledge of the HR Technology marketplace
- Experience in conducting market research, customer feedback, user testing, and data analysis to identify user needs, pain points, and opportunities for product improvement and innovation.
- Experience in creating and managing product roadmaps, user stories, specifications, and documentation.
- Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, sales, marketing, and customer success, to deliver high-quality products that meet customer expectations and business goals.
- Experience in using agile methodologies and tools to plan, execute, and monitor product development cycles.
- Experience in launching and evaluating products using various metrics and KPIs, such as user adoption, retention, satisfaction, revenue, etc.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written, to communicate product vision, strategy, and value proposition to internal and external stakeholders.
- Must be willing to work collaboratively with highly distributed teams across different time zones.
- Thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth, and dynamic environment.
- Strong analytical abilities, growth/metrics orientation, and problem-solving acumen.
EDUCATION
- Bachelor's Degree required.
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Internal Mobility at Korn Ferry
If you currently work for Korn Ferry or one of our affiliates, you must be eligible to apply for a different position within Korn Ferry to use the Careers Site. If you accept such a position, your benefits programs and Human Resources policies may change. Please consult with your HR contact for the new position concerning application eligibility, including any immigration/visa needs, benefit programs, and HR policies applicable to that position.
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Korn Ferry is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative
Action Employer - Minority/Female/Disability/ Veteran
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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