Assistant Director - Product Management (Hybrid)

We are looking for a people leader for our Income Solutions-Annuities Product Managers and a strategic partner to business and technology leadership. You will be responsible for ensuring portfolio roadmaps, objectives, and priorities are aligned to strategy while coaching teams through discovery, decision-making, and execution. The ideal candidate combines strong product expertise, leadership presence, and the ability to create clarity in complex environments. Product Strategy: Guides and defines product strategies for a low to medium complex and sensitive product family (a set of products which deliver against a shared strategic or business-critical outcome). Deep understanding of, and solutioning for, the end-to-end product experience. Partners with product managers and stakeholders to align across organizational boundaries and ensure strategic continuity among teams. Ensures product strategies align with business and enterprise strategies and priorities; and partners with finance and senior leadership to allocate necessary resources to pursue targeted outcomes. Integrates business, customer, user, and partner insights to inform a clear understanding of problems to solve and risks to manage. Continuously seeks to improve the clarity and effectiveness of the product family strategy. Ensures products within the family are leveraging data and insights inform product team decisions (in collaboration with design/experience experts) Effectively shares vision, intent, and objective of product family and component products with key partners. Product Discovery: Accountable for an effective parallel discovery and delivery model in place across the product family. Product Delivery: Is accountable for success of overall product family delivery. Communicates product family releases to stakeholders. Product Assessment: Accountable for maintaining clear line-of-site on the target outcomes compared to investment levels and expectations. Monitors and communicates product family health, impact of product family releases, and progress against product family goals. Accountable for ensuring healthy feedback loops among teams within the product family; and among product families in a broader value stream. Responsible and accountable for meeting product family outcomes and if necessary, making enhancements to go to market strategy, products, etc. in order to meet them. Responsible for making performance information accessible and visible to Sr. Director of Product and other key stakeholders. Includes storytelling to clearly connect performance with strategy. Stakeholder Management and Communication: Proactively shares key information (strategy, priorities, plans, experiments, results, etc.) regarding the product family with stakeholders. Communicates effectively as a leader of the product family and as part of a broader portfolio. Build strong working relationships with diverse stakeholders across organizational unit lines to enable value realization. Partner with leaders of technical and non-technical functions to foster a strong and aligned cross-functional team for the product family. Product Leadership Lead, mentor, coach, and manage Product Managers and Sr. Product Managers Champions product mindset and culture building with leaders of collaborating functions (such as Engineering, Design, Data, Product Development, etc.) Periodically assesses the health and maturity of the product management practice within their sphere of responsibility; and works to continuously improve. Formal staff reporting Who You Are We are looking for someone with: 8+ years of business, technology, or product management experience; or equivalent demonstrated through the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education. 5+ years working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced product environment. Formal leadership experience is required. Demonstrated success establishing business strategy for multiple products. Demonstrated success