Product Management Manager, Product COE

About this role

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose:

The Product Management Manager, Product COE is responsible for leading and developing a team of product managers who define and deliver the tools, workflows, and platform capabilities that shape how Home Depot's engineering organization builds software. Reporting into the Product Center of Excellence and partnering closely with Engineering & UX leadership, this leader ensures their team's product strategy is grounded in a deep understanding of Product, UX, and Engineer needs — from developer tooling and platform experience to workflow efficiency and technical enablement. This role owns talent development for their product managers, sets the bar for product craft and stakeholder engagement, and acts as the connective tissue between the Product COE's standards and the specific priorities of the Engineering Experience portfolio. Success in this role means a PM team that is technically fluent, outcome-driven, and trusted by engineering partners as a strategic extension of their own leadership.

Key Responsibilities:

• 30% Strategy & Planning:
• Looks across product teams and feature sets with a focus on alignment and dependencies
• Gains a thorough understanding of customer and associate needs, both existing and potential, and uses that knowledge to help deliver enterprise products that provide Home Depot customers and associates with an unparalleled shopping experience
• Translates business goals and end user needs into product strategy and clearly communicates direction and product priorities to the product team and business partners
• Meets with users and stakeholders as needed to understand processes, pain points and system waste in order to identify where to improve the user experience
• Creates epics to drive improvements to product vision, features and back end systems, and adjusts for new business models
• Determines value to the business of an...