VP Product Management
Compeer Financial

Compeer Financial is seeking collaborative, innovative and dynamic professionals to be a part of our Top Workplace culture!

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Position Overview:
This position is a dynamic and influential leader responsible for shaping the development and maturation of Compeer's Product Management capability. The incumbent is a visionary who can navigate and drive change in a fast-paced environment, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. Leads cross-functional teams, leverages market insights to deliver impactful products, and inspires a shared sense of purpose. Cultivates a client-centric approach, ensuring that our products not only meet but exceed market demands, while also championing a culture of continuous improvement and agility across the organization.

Essential Functions:

Product Management and Execution

• Oversees the product lifecycle, from ideation to launch through maturity, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of new features and enhancements.
• Partners across the organization including businesses, marketing and market insights teams to ensure client needs inform product decisions, drive investment and return value.
• Works closely within the BT organization to optimize the delivery and management of products.
• Defines and tracks key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of the portfolio of products and make data-driven decisions.
• Represents Compeer at industry events, conferences, and client meetings, positioning the company as a thought leader in digital ag-finance.

Strategic Leadership and Execution

• Champions the brand; serves as a role-model for the vision, mission & values of the organization and supports Compeer's strategic initiatives.
• Develops and communicates a clear roadmap for the continued development and maturity of product management within Compeer, including culture, talent and including external (client-facing) and internal product management capabilities.
• Develops and communicates a clear product vision and strategy for the product portfolio, aligning with Compeer's overall business objectives and market demands.
• Develops enterprise product strategies (e.g. Enterprise API's) that create common capabilities that can be used across Compeer businesses to create speed-to-market for digital solutions
• Partners with Compeers Strategy and Innovation team to mature innovation process and ensure integration of technology product management principles where innovation has a technology component.
• Contributes to the BT strategy and transformation roadmap.

Team Leadership

• Creates and promotes a positive culture and work environment that fully leverages the talents and abilities of team members
• Leads, mentors, and inspires a team of product managers and owners, fostering a values and trust-based culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Selects, develops, motivates, and engages great talent to create and maintain a high-performing team; ensure a talent-pipeline to meet the future needs of the team.
• Effectively initiates, inspires and leads change within the team, BT and often across the organization.
• Creates and evolves the team structure and identifies capabilities and roles needed to evolve the Product Management team as progress is made in our product management journey
• Determines performance standards and development plans and effectively communicates them to team members.
• Manages the evaluation and compensation processes for direct and indirect reports.
• Coaches team members on more complex and challenging issues and decisions.
• Manages human capital budget and forecasting.

Minimum Qualifications & Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelor's degree in business or computer science or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job.
• Minimum of 10 years of information technology experience, preferably in an agriculture and/or financial institution.
• Minimum of five years of leadership and management experience preferred.
• Exceptional people leadership and talent development skills including the ability to select, evaluate, engage, motivate, mentor, train, delegate, reward and lead team members.
• High learning agility with demonstrated ability to apply past experiences and learnings successfully in new situations.
• Demonstrated ability leverage values-based leadership to shape and influence culture; able to lead in a hybrid work environment.
• Advanced communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively articulate complex concepts to diverse audiences.
• Proven ability to build strong relationships with clients, partners, and internal stakeholders.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Passion for innovation and a deep commitment to delivering exceptional customer experiences.
• Strong strategic thinker with demonstrated ability to develop, articulate and execute strategy.
• High degree of curiosity across leadership, business and technology disciplines.
• Skill in developing and maintaining interpersonal relationships.
• Strong problem solving, decision making and organizational skills.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail.
• Flexible and adaptable to changing situations.
• Expert-level knowledge of product management and Agile Solution Delivery principles.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with other teams to achieve goals and represent the business.
• Valid driver's license.

Who is Compeer Financial?
Compeer Financial exists to champion the hopes and dreams of rural America. By joining our team, you will help empower those in agriculture and rural communities to achieve their goals and expand their possibilities. We embrace business agility and innovative approaches to serving our clients and communities.

Why join our team?

• Amazing team members who are passionate about serving agriculture and rural America.
• Investment in our team members' education, growth and development.
• Engagement in our communities through giving back and volunteerism.
• Flexible, collaborative and dynamic work environment.
• Great benefits:
  • Medical, Dental, Vision insurance
  • 401K (3% Compeer contribution & up to an additional 6% match)
  • Paid time off (vacation, sick leave, holidays, volunteer time)

Find out why our team members choose Compeer Financial by watching this video.

How do I apply?
Qualified candidates, please apply online at www.compeer.com/careers.

Compeer Financial is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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