Director, Group Product Lifecycle

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Job Title: Director, Group Product Lifecycle
Reports to:  Sr. Director, Product
Location:  Remote

Interested applicants must reside in one of the following approved states:

Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Washington

The Role

Deckers Brands, a global leader in footwear and apparel, is seeking an experienced and dynamic Director, Group Product Lifecycle. This pivotal role is integral to our agile transformation journey, focusing on optimizing innovation, sustainability, cost efficiency, customer experience (internal), scalability, data cleanliness and governance, regulatory compliance, and streamlined processes throughout our physical product creation and development cycle.

The Director, Group Product Lifecycle will be a strategic, results-driven leader with a deep commitment to product innovation, excellence, and growth. This newly created position will collaborate closely with executive leadership across all brands, as well as with supply chain, legal, and technology teams. The role encompasses overseeing strategic planning, development, adoption, and the business impact of digital and physical product creation solutions.

The ideal candidate will possess strong product management experience with the ability to create strategy and vision around their domain, build key partnerships with business and stakeholders to partner on desired outcomes, ability to manage product owners and work with delivery teams to decompose the set strategy and vision.  Additionally, the candidate should possess domain experience in the physical product lifecycle space.  This includes experience with PLM systems, Digital Product Creation solutions, sourcing tools, manufacturing systems, material libraries and the underlying data associated.  The role will be responsible and accountable for creating the right strategy and execution through the digital product teams to create standards, improve data quality, improve business interaction with business tools, improve compliance and improve overall speed to market in this domain.

We celebrate diversity--of your background, your experiences and your unique identity. We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and equitable workplace where all of our employees can Come as They Are. We believe that when we bring our different perspectives to work, we are truly Better Together.

Your Impact
The primary functions of this role, include but are not limited to:

• Oversee the entire lifecycle of Physical Product Lifecycle products, from conception and development to launch and continuous improvement.
• Develop and articulate a clear vision for the Physical Product Lifecycle product group in alignment with overarching business strategy. Identify market trends, customer needs, and new opportunities to enhance the product offerings.  Create transparency into roadmap, ensuring alignment with the company's overall objectives and market opportunities
• Ensure the delivery of business outcomes and value through a technical understanding of physical and digital product creation systems, promoted and shared across the Product Lifecycle product group team.
• Define and monitor success criteria as well as both leading and lagging key performance indicators (KPIs). Regularly report progress to senior management and adjust strategies as needed.
• Collaborate with senior leaders and technical teams impacted by Product Lifecycle to drive strategic alignment of product delivery with company goals as well as adoption by customers.
• Prioritize the most impactful problems to solve to realize strategic outcomes, as well as shape the solution options for product and delivery teams to decompose strategy to execution.
• Manage the product management budget and resources to achieve business objectives within scope.
• Work closely with other product groups and functional departments (such as sales, marketing, and customer service) to ensure product group alignment with company goals and customer expectations. Act as the primary liaison between technical teams and business units.
• Work to manage risk and remove impediments impacting product efficiencies through continuous product group improvement initiatives and partnership with cross functional teams and leadership.
• Provide transparency and insights into capacity and skillset gaps across teams. Work with appropriate cross functional leaders to remediate.

Who You Are

• Strategic visionary who builds purpose and alignment behind the vision.
• Drives Innovation; demonstrate curiosity and agility; drives change through effective communication and facilitation strategies.
• Demonstrates tenacity to achieve results, no matter the barriers, while modeling the Company’s values.
• Delivers through people; an imperative to lead, not manage.
• Empathetic and humble: strong listening and communication skills – accessible- connects at all levels.
• Drives value through collaboration & enterprise mindset.

We’d love to hear from people with

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• Advance degree MBA preferred.
• Product Management and/or Product Ownership certifications desired: CPM, CSPO, PSPO, ACPMPO, or equivalent certification/s
• +12 years of experience in product management, product strategy development, product lifecycle management, and product launch.
• Experience in physical product creation of footwear through utilization of systems, tools and processes
• A track record of product and project management success in a global organization with Physical Product Lifecycle capabilities.
• Demonstrated success managing a team of product owners across multiple geographies.
• Demonstrated success aligning strategy across senior leadership.
• Experience in a global matrixed organization.
• Global experience, ideally with significant international experience across North America, Asia, and Europe.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent verbal and written communications and facilitation skills – Specifically towards key business stakeholders, product managers, and engineers.

What We'll Give You

• Competitive Pay and Bonuses - We’ve created a variety of competitive compensation programs to foster career development, reward success and to show our employees just how much they’re valued.
• Financial Planning and wellbeing - No matter what financial goals our employees have set, we want to help them get there. Our plans provide powerful ways to protect income, pay for expenses and invest in the future.
• Time away from work - Sometimes we need time away to be with family, focus on our health or just simply recharge. Our plans support our employees’ needs to get out, get healthy and come back stronger than ever.
• Extras, discounts and perks - Being a valued member of the Deckers Brands team means more than just a paycheck. From generous discounts to community-based programs, we offer a variety of cool extras
• Growth and Development - Deckers Brands was built on the idea of pursuing passion. That’s why we offer extensive opportunities and support for personal and professional development.
• Health and Wellness - There’s nothing basic about our comprehensive health and wellness programs and offerings. While at work and at play, we aim to support a healthy lifestyle.
   

$195,000 - $215,000

The salary range posted reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for this role in our Goleta, CA location. Individual pay will be determined by location and additional factors, including job related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Equal Employment Opportunity
Diversity and inclusion are key to our success. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds who share a passion for our brands. We welcome qualified applicants regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, military or veteran status, mental or physical disability, medical condition and all of the other beautiful parts of your identity.

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