VP, Data & Decisioning Products

Company: Discover
Location: Rockford
Posted on: November 24, 2022

Job Description:

Discover. A brighter future.With us, you ll do meaningful work from Day 1. Our collaborative culture is built on three core behaviors: We Play to Win, We Get Better Every Day & We Succeed Together. And we mean it we want you to grow and make a difference at one of the world's leading digital banking and payments companies. We value what makes you unique so that you have an opportunity to shine. Come build your future, while being the reason millions of people find a brighter financial future with Discover.Job Description The VP, Data & Decisioning Products is responsible for the Data and Decisioning Products organization by providing vision, direction, and leadership for foundational and data and decisioning products utilized by Discover's business units. This includes driving end to end solutions that meet customer needs. With product orientation and servant leader at the core, this role is responsible for ensuring consistent and appropriate delivery of data and decisioning products and services to support the diverse needs of Discovers lines of business. This role is also responsible for building and maintaining a highly effective product leadership team, including leadership of all product area leader directors, product managers and product owners. This role will also need to effectively collaborate and negotiate with other leaders in all areas of Discover.Key Responsibilities:What You ll DoAnalytic Product Delivery

• Accountable for delivering on end-to-end data and decisioning product vision and roadmap in line with overall business and DNA Strategy.
• Ensure maximum value and high-quality delivery of data and decisioning products
• Ensure consistency of delivery across data and decisioning product areas.
• Establish and track to appropriate OKRs to measure delivery performance and quality
• Responsible for managing the data and decisioning product budget/financials.
• Oversees different decisioning products, product lines, and manage production.
• Work on the product roadmap based on the product lifecycle.
• Assist the product team in the development, creation, and management of new products to ensure that they become successful products.
• Help the product owner and development team in the product development process by doing relevant data analysis.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to work on delivering various AI/ML solutions to meet customer needs.
• Work closely with the engineering teams and product leaders to ensure everything is being development and managed accordingly.Product Leadership
  • Provide leadership, coaching and mentoring to product area directors and their teams
  • Attract, onboard and develop/retrain talent to achieve the strongest product area leadership team possible
  • Foster a culture of excellence and continuous learning within the product families
  • Partner with DNA and line of business leaderships to ensure products have teams with the appropriate skills and capabilities to deliver high quality products to our consumers
  • Manage and align vendors to data and decisioning product roadmap and service levelsProduct Marketing & Advocacy
    • Frequently interface with business lines to understand near long term needs and identify opportunities for initiatives to drive value and efficiency.
    • Ensure consistent feedback mechanisms are in place to measure customer satisfaction and to capture potential new requirements/enhancement opportunities.
    • Identify opportunities to increase utilization and adoption of products and features and work with product area directors to implement adoption and advocacy plans.
    • Contribute to DNA Strategic Roadmap.Functional Expertise
      • Comfortable with concepts, technologies, operating models, and architectures of multiple data and decisioning products to anticipate future trends and data and decisioning capability needs, as well as being able to effectively challenge other leaders as needed.
      • Develop own coaching and leadership skills to stay in-line with industry trends and internal demand.
      • Ensure consistency of product management and share common practices and challenges across all Product Teams.Qualifications You ll Need:
        • Bachelor's degree in Business or Information Technology required.
        • Masters degree in Business or Information Technology preferred.
        • 10+ years of experience in application development, computer systems, statistics, product management, analytics or data management required.
        • 12+ years of experience in application development, computer systems, statistics, product management, analytics or data management preferred.
        • In Lieu of education, 15+ years of experience in application development, computer systems, statistics, product management, analytics or data management required . What are you waiting for? Apply today!All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.The same way we treat our employees is how we treat all applicants with respect. Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer (EEO is the law). We thrive on diversity & inclusion. You will be treated fairly throughout our recruiting process and without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status in consideration for a career at Discover. Associated topics: design, engineering, manufacture, product, product manager, production, program manager, quality

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