Director, Product Transformation, Boston, MA

Your Journey Starts Here:

Santander is a global leader and innovator in the financial services industry. We believe that our employees are our greatest asset. Our focus is on fostering an enriching journey that empowers you to explore diverse career opportunities while nurturing your personal growth. We are committed to creating an environment where continuous learning and development are prioritized enabling you to thrive both professionally and personally. Here you will find ample opportunities to connect and collaborate with talented colleagues from around the world sharing insights and driving innovation together. Join us at Santander where you are supported by a culture of engagement and a commitment to your success.

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The Difference You Make:
The Director Champions a culture of agility and collaboration driving alignment and efficiency across teams. This role is critical in fostering innovation and improving governance processes and routines to optimize workflows and improve velocity and quality to meet organizational objectives.

The Director Drives cultural and operational transformation to embed product-led thinking across the organization. This role champions strategic alignment customer-centric design and disciplined execution across digital product initiatives. It ensures that Santanders platforms and omni-channel experiences are market-leading scalable and deeply aligned to business strategy.

• Own and continuously optimize Santanders digital product and platform portfolio ensuring alignment with customer needs business goals and regulatory requirements.
• Partner closely with the Head of Platform & Innovation and Head of Omni Channel Experience to shape and execute product strategies initiatives and investments.
• Lead product strategy development portfolio planning and roadmap governance across multiple product domains.
• Establish and embed product-first principles across teams ensuring consistent approaches to discovery prioritization requirements management and value delivery.
• Assess capacity across product and platform teams helping leaders make informed prioritization and capacity trade-off decisions.
• Oversee and enable key cross-functional rolesincluding UX Research and Copywritingthat are critical to shaping the roadmap informing investment decisions and ensuring customer-centric platform design.
• Lead key business and product routines such as Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) and Program Increment (PI) Planning ensuring alignment of goals priorities and execution.
• Strengthen cross-functional collaboration with Technology Risk & Compliance Operations and Business Units to deliver transformative outcomes.
• Introduce and evolve tools metrics and processes to improve transparency decision-making and product lifecycle management.
• Mentor product leaders and managers building organizational capability in modern product management practices.
• Monitor performance and market trends to inform investment decisions and adjust strategies.
• Serve as a thought partner to senior executives in shaping Santanders digital and product-led transformation agenda.

What You Bring:
To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• BS/BA degree or higher: Project Management Business Technology or related Field - Required.
• MBA: - Preferred.

• 10 Years Product Management consulting or agile transformation experience- Required.

• Strong understanding and demonstration of Product Management
• Seasoned strategist and creative leader who is able to drive Digital strategy creative delivery and real-time/ongoing optimization
• Ability to foster a positive and motivating work environment encouraging feedback and innovation
• Strong analytical prioritization interpersonal problem-solving and presentation skills.
• Must have excellent professional presentation skills and the ability to interact and engage all levels of management/leadership
• Strong leadership initiative and planning skills
• Experience leading high engagement cross-functional strategy execution
• Experience driving the adoption of and achieving successful Agile practices across organizations

Certifications:

• Other: SCRUM or SAFE Product Owner - Preferred.

It Would Be Nice For You To Have:

• Established work history or equivalent demonstrated through a combination of work experience training military service or education.
• Experience in Microsoft Office products.

What Else You Need To Know:

The base pay range for this position is posted below and represents the annualized salary range. For hourly positions (non-exempt) the annual range is based on a 40-hour work week. The exact compensation may vary based on skills experience training licensure and certifications and location.

Link to Santander Benefits:

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Risk Culture:

We embrace a strong risk culture and all of our professionals at all levels are expected to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management.

EEO Statement:

At Santander we value and respect differences in our workforce. We actively encourage everyone to apply. Santander is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin genetics disability age veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Working Conditions:

Frequent minimal physical effort such as sitting standingand walking is required for this role. Depending on location occasional moving and lifting light equipment and/or furniture may be required.

Employer Rights:

This job description does not list all of the job duties of the job. You may be asked by your supervisors or managers to perform other duties. You may be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the tasks listed in this job description. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. This job description is not a contract for employment and either you or the employer may terminate your employment at any time for any reason.

What To Do Next:

If this sounds like a role you are interested in then please apply.

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