magnals - Vice President, Product Management

• Lead, develop, and manage Magna’s product managers, who report directly to the VP with a dotted line to their Business Unit leaders. • Own the strategy, roadmap, and performance of enterprise-wide products that serve multiple Business Units, such as the client portal. • Establish product management processes, standards, and governance that support consistent decision-making across Magna. • Introduce best practices for product discovery, opportunity assessment, prioritization, requirements development, launch planning, and ongoing improvement. • Contribute to product strategy by sharing client feedback, market insights, portfolio assessments, and product performance data. • Translate company and service-line priorities into clear product roadmaps, business requirements, and execution plans. • Facilitate cross-functional planning and decision-making among Business Unit, Technology, Sales, Marketing, Client Success, and Operations leaders, including through Magna’s Product Council. • Guide product initiatives from initial concept through development, launch, adoption, and refinement. • Develop practical tools and frameworks to evaluate opportunities, build business cases, assess feasibility, and measure expected impact. • Partner with CTO/Engineering team to ensure engineering produces development timelines with enough specificity around milestones and sequencing to enable the PM to monitor and report out on progress. • Define and monitor measures of product performance, such as adoption, client outcomes, revenue contribution, and operational effectiveness. • Identify opportunities to improve existing products and services, and coordinate the work needed to advance them. • Build organizational understanding of product management roles, processes, and decision rights. • ## Desired Background • Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, or a related field; advanced degree preferred. • Significant experience in product management, product operations, or product development, ideally in professional services, legal services, technology-enabled services, or a related environment. • Demonstrated success establishing or improving product management processes and cross-functional ways of working. • Experience coordinating products or services through discovery, development, launch, and ongoing improvement. • Strong ability to translate client and business needs into requirements, roadmaps, and actionable plans. • Experience with prioritization, business cases, product performance measures, or go-to-market planning. • Excellent communication and facilitation skills, including the ability to build alignment among senior stakeholders. • Strong organizational and analytical skills, with the judgment to introduce process that supports effective execution. • Comfortable working in a dynamic organization and building structure where processes are still developing. • Success will mean that Magna has clear, repeatable product management practices; teams have a shared process for assessing and advancing product opportunities; and product decisions are supported by client insight, business priorities, and measurable outcomes.