Director Product Management

Build a Career That Builds Your Future — with PulteGroup! Welcome to PulteGroup where we believe in building more than just homes—we believe in building inspired employees, meaningful careers, and a legacy of excellence. If you're looking for work that moves you, a team that values your ideas, and a company that brings you pride, you’ve come to the right place. As one of the nation’s largest and most respected homebuilders, PulteGroup offers opportunities to grow within a Fortune 500 company that’s consistently recognized as a Fortune 100 Best Company to Work For and a certified Great Place to Work. We’re driven by the bold purpose of Building Incredible Places for People to Live Their Dreams. For over 70 years, we’ve been building more than homes—we’ve been building trust, innovation, and a culture where every team member is empowered to thrive. Join a company that champions inclusion, celebrates diversity, and supports your personal and professional journey. Headquartered in vibrant Atlanta, Georgia, and operating in over 45 markets nationwide, we’re proud to build homes through our trusted family of brands—including Innovative Construction Group, Centex, Pulte Homes, Del Webb, DiVosta Homes, American West, and John Wieland Homes and Neighborhoods, Pulte Mortgage, PGP Title, Pulte Insurance Agency —all united under the PulteGroup name.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Understand the current-state product capabilities and envision the future-state needs.
• Develop and evolve product roadmaps based on business priorities, data and customer insights that deliver the highest value.
• Ensure appropriate alignment and balance the needs between operational business objectives, IT objectives, and financial objectives.
• Build and foster strong relationships with key stakeholders and maintain a regular cadence for communications and expectation setting for product stakeholders and executives to enable trust and transparency.
• Partner with architects, designers and developers in determining how to best apply technology innovations, combined with business process change, to achieve dramatic improvement in business results.
• Establish, track and adjust metrics for the features/functions of the product(s)
• Ensure the Agile development team has a healthy backlog of work with high business value, providing input on prioritization.
• Create and maintain customer feedback loops.
• Chair project steering committees.
• Track and manage issues and risks.
• Recruit, select, coach and develop team members.
• Conduct performance & development reviews per HR guidelines.
• Takes corrective actions, including Performance Improvement Plans & terminations, when necessary.
• Identify and work with potential vendors to ensure a strong, well-understood selection process is used for the vendor and their systems, and their implementation plan and professional services are aligned with our needs.
• Provide oversight of existing vendors to ensure ongoing effective system use, release management, and support.
• Ensure intended benefits are realized and work with the team to continuously assess progress, disseminate lessons learned, and understand next steps.
• Closely follow industry trends, and demonstrate a passion and motivation for continuous learning.
• Contributes to and champions PulteGroup product management education, best practices, methods, standards and processes.

Career Level (M5)

Organizational Impact:

• Recommends operational plans and strategies that will directly impact the achievement of overall department results.
• Directs the execution of strategies established by senior leadership.
• Establishes operational plans for job area with short to mid-term impact on results (e.g., 1 – 2 Years).
• Work requires a high degree of responsibility for resources and frequently influences business decisions made by senior leadership.
• Typically has budget accountability for the department or sub-function.

Leadership & Talent Management:

• Manages a department or smaller sub-function which includes multiple teams led by managers and/or supervisors.
• Responsible for creating workforce and staffing plans for department/sub-function to ensure availability of human capital necessary to accomplish departmental goals.
• Typically, has hiring, firing, promotion and reward authority within own area, in accordance with organizational guidelines.

Knowledge & Experience:

• Requires deep management and leadership knowledge to lead cross-department project or program teams or manage across multiple sub-functions.
• Typically has mastery within a specific technical discipline/area or broad expertise across multiple related disciplines.
• Typically requires a university degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8-10 years prior relevant experience.

Required Skills

• Demonstrated ability to identify business needs and collaborate with cross-functional teams without direct management or oversight.
• Clear understanding of best-in-class business processes as it relates to assigned business area
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency in identifying goals, metrics and analytics to measure product value.
• Proven ability to influence decision-making across various contexts.
• Experience operating as a product manager or product owner.
• Experience in driving innovation and influencing teams with a strong focus on the end user.
• Experience building customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 tools including Word, Excel, Outlook, OneNote and PowerPoint.

Required Licensing, Registration and/or Certifications

Not applicable

Physical Requirements:

May require travel.

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PulteGroup Employee Benefits

• Comprehensive, Flexible and Affordable Healthcare Coverage Options
• Supplemental Healthcare Coverage Opportunities
• PTO and Work/Life Benefits
• Health Advocacy and Wellness
• Retirement Plan with Company Match
• Education and Employee Assistance Programs
• Paid Parental Leave and Adoption Benefits
• Mortgage Financing Discounts through Pulte Mortgage

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