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Director, Product Management Operations

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field; MBA or Master's preferred
  • 8+ years of experience in business strategy, program or product management
  • Experience in highly regulated environments with risk and compliance stakeholders; data-driven decision making
  • Proven leadership in guiding cross-functional teams and implementing Lean/Agile/DevOps-informed processes

Requirements:

  • Guide and mentor a team of product leaders to develop strategies, metrics, and backlogs while ensuring high-quality, customer-centric product delivery
  • Lead the Digital Analytics and Experimentation capability, ensuring data fidelity, experimentation rigor, and actionable insights, including establishing enterprise analytics and testing standards
  • Establish and scale product development best practices and standards, including evangelizing adoption of the Block SDLC across teams
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing, and Risk to integrate experimentation and analytics into product discovery, delivery, and optimization

Job description

Our Company: We care about helping people. Our purpose is to provide help and inspire confidence in our clients and communities everywhere. Our associates feel a sense of belonging in an inclusive place with an amazing history and a sharp focus on our future. Our connected culture is who we are and how we work together to achieve our strategies, accelerate our transformation, and achieve extraordinary results. It’s an exciting time to be a part of H&R Block! What you'll do...:

At H&R Block, your contributions will go far beyond any job description. When you join our team, you’ll add to the momentum of a forward-thinking company—one that defined an industry and is now leading its transformation. 

Join us as we create superior digital experiences for our clients by knowing and predicting their needs while delivering unparalleled support and transparency. The selected candidate must have a passion for delivering exceptional experiences for clients, prospects, and associates that align with H&R Block’s brand promise of providing expertise and care. 

In this role, you will be responsible for guiding the Consumer Tax product management process and ensuring the effectiveness of the Consumer Tax Product Team.  You will have program management responsibility of large strategic initiatives to help drive the success of our Consumer Tax initiatives. You will bring together experience in business strategy and vision, process management, product management and people management to drive success. You will be part of a team that believes in working fast, being accountable, and learning from mistakes. 

In addition, this role will lead our Digital Analytics and Experimentation capability, ensuring data fidelity, experimentation rigor, and actionable insights are embedded across product development. This includes establishing enterprise standards for analytics and testing, scaling experimentation practices, and enabling product teams to make confident, data driven decisions. 

Day to day, you'll... 

  • Guide and mentor a team of product leaders to develop strategies, metrics, and backlogs while setting a superior standard for quality and delivery of a customer centric product 
  • Work cross-functionally to drive improvement around the way we work leveraging the principles of Lean, Agile, and DevOps to minimize waste and maximize speed to value for our customers 
  • Codify, standardize, and evangelize product development best practices across teams  
  • Evangelize and lead our adoption with our Block Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) 
  • Establish metrics and standards for measuring velocity and success of product initiatives 
  • Establish and evolve processes, working practices, and tools utilized by the Product Team 
  • Coordinate across key Director level resources on the most critical projects, objectives and milestones to ensure departmental success 
  • Enable an environment of curiosity, continuous improvement, urgency, and respect 
  • Collaborate and influence with technical, product, and design, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and plan for future needs 
  • Communicate product strategy, impact and risks to leadership and stakeholders 
  • Provide strategic leadership and governance for digital analytics and experimentation across Consumer Tax products, ensuring alignment with enterprise standards and business objectives 
  • Lead and develop a Digital Analytics & Experimentation team, including management of a Lead Program Manager responsible for execution, tooling, and operational excellence 
  • Establish and scale experimentation best practices, success metrics, and validation standards to ensure trusted data and meaningful insights 
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing, and Risk teams to integrate experimentation and analytics into product discovery, delivery, and optimization workflows 
  • You will report directly to the VP, Digital Tax Products and work closely with a team of Product Leaders. 
What you'll bring to the team...:
  • Bachelor’s degree in related field or the equivalent through a combination of education and work experience. MBA or Master’s Degree preferred. 
  • 8+ years’ experience across business strategy, program or product management disciplines 
  • Experience in defining and evolving product and agile processes across teams and stakeholdersto maximize speed, quality, agility, and flexibility 
  • Experience in working in highly regulated environments and demonstrated experience in defining creative solutions in concert with risk and compliance stakeholders 
  • Experience leveraging digital analytics and experimentation to drive product decisions in complex, regulated environments 
  • Demonstrated excellent leadership skills leading and influencing cross-functional teams 
  • A diligent attention to detail and strong technical intuition including drive towards data-led decision making and analytical mindset 
  • Deep understanding of process management and improvement 
  • An ability to manage time and schedules to meet deadlines and influence through persuasive written and verbal communication 
  • Attentive and thoughtful people development and management expertise 
  • Comfort with Aha, Azure DevOps, and Figma a plus 
  • Certifications in Agile, Scrum, DevOps, Product Management, or Program Management a plus 
It would be even better if you also had...:
  • MBA or Master’s Degree 
Why work for us: Since 1955, we have been leaders in tax preparation, financial services, and small business solutions. With 70,000 associates and 9,000 retail tax locations across North America, Australia, Ireland, and India, we have helped millions of clients and countless communities. If you embrace challenges as opportunities, value winning as a team, and seek to make a meaningful difference, join us on our journey. You’ll reap the rewards of helping others along with competitive compensation and benefits to support your health and well-being.

Specific benefits may vary based on your role. For detailed eligibility requirements and benefits information, visit blockbenefits.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer: H&R Block does not tolerate discrimination based on a person’s race, color, religion, ancestry, age, sex/gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions and sex-based stereotypes and transgender status), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, service in the Armed Forces, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status or any other status protected by law. Pay Range Information: The pay range for this position is listed below. Local minimum wage laws apply. This information is posted pursuant to local requirements to provide applicants with information about what they might be eligible to receive. Individual pay decisions will depend on job-related factors such as experience, education, skill, performance, and geographic location where work will be performed. Successful candidates may be able to participate in one or more incentive compensation or short-term incentive plans, which could generate additional earnings in accordance with the terms of each plan. Qualifying associates can enroll themselves and/or their eligible dependents in medical and prescription drug coverage; can participate in the H&R Block Retirement Savings Plan (401(k) Plan), the Employee Assistance Program, (virtual) fitness center programs, and the associate discount program; are automatically enrolled in Business Travel Accident Insurance; and receive Associate Tax Prep benefit. Pay Range: $154,900.00 - $263,300.00/Yr. Sponsored Job: #LI-KB1 #LI-Remote

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