Vanguard
TechnicalProductManager-Planning&WorkManagement
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“Technical Product Manager - Planning & Work Management at Vanguard. Skills: Product management, Work management, MarTech, SaaS. Set the vision. Tell the story”
What You'll Achieve.
Clear business outcomes; Clear metrics; Clear tradeoffs; Increase adoption; Make new ways of working stick; Sustained usage; Workflow compliance; Observable behavior change
Industry & Context.
Consultative mindset; Problem framing; Option evaluation; Technical solutions; Debugging broken workflow
Not offering visa sponsorship
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years product management experience, 5+ years product owner experience, Demonstrated ability to be a storyteller, Hands-on understanding enterprise work management concepts, Cross-functional leadership, Stakeholder management, Demonstrated consultative mindset, Comfort operating at 30,000-foot strategy, Comfort operating at 3-foot detail
Nice to Have
SaaS experience in workflow, SaaS experience in work management, SaaS experience in MarTech, SaaS experience in operations software
What You'll Do.
Articulate opinionated narrative
Create marketing-ready demos
Create written artifacts
Translate market trends
Translate stakeholder needs
Create prioritized roadmap
Define clear business outcomes
Define explicit tradeoffs
Create single priority order
Define product guardrails
Define standard vs exception
Define when customization allowed
Define when work declined
Define planning-to-execution North Star
Design cohesive experiences
Align to Content Supply Chain
Ensure clean handoffs
Partner on integrations
Partner on automation
Lead consultative discovery
Partner with stakeholders
Understand business challenges
Map enterprise workstreams
Collaboratively define scalable solutions
Optimize for configuration
Optimize for governance
Optimize for maintainability
Optimize for templates
Optimize for data quality
Ship product with rigor
Drive product team delivery
Drive behavior change
Make new ways of working stick
Validate sustained usage
Validate workflow compliance
Validate observable behavior change
Lead cross-functionally
Represent capability area in leadership forums
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional leadership; Stakeholder management; Product, Engineering, Design, Customer Success, Sales
Communication Scope
Storyteller; Executive presentations; Technical documentation
Process & Methodology
Roadmap, Prioritization, Intake, Capacity, Resourcing, Execution, Approvals, Reporting
Full Job Description
**Key Responsibilities** * **Set the vision & tell the story:** articulate an opinionated narrative for Planning & Work Management; create marketing-ready demos and written artifacts that make the why and what undeniable. * **Turn signals into a roadmap:** translate market trends (MarTech, workflow, AI-assisted work) and stakeholder needs into a prioritized roadmap with clear business outcomes, metrics, and explicit tradeoffs (what is in/out, what gets deferred, and what gets declined). * **Own portfolio-level tradeoffs:** create a single, defensible priority order across foundational work, integrations, and enhancement asks; actively manage demand by deferring or declining work when it doesn’t align to outcomes, and reset expectations with partners using clear decision frameworks. * **Set product guardrails:** define what becomes standard vs. exception (intake models, templates, metadata, governance), when customization is allowed, and when work is declined to protect scalability, compliance, and reuse. * **Define the planning-to-execution North Star:** design cohesive experiences across intake, prioritization, resourcing/capacity, execution, approvals, and reporting. * **Align to the Content Supply Chain:** ensure clean handoffs across the asset lifecycle and partner on integrations/automation (e.g., Fusion patterns) so Workfront serves as the central orchestration hub for marketing work, with reliable data flow across the broader MarTech ecosystem. * **Lead consultative discovery:** partner with stakeholders to understand business challenges, map real enterprise workstreams and handoffs, and collaboratively define scalable solutions—including edge cases. * **Champion admin and scale needs:** optimize for configuration, governance, maintainability, templates, and data quality so the platform scales across teams and business units. * **Ship product with rigor:** own requirements and acceptance criteria; drive product team to deliver intuitive experiences that reduc
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