Technical Product Manager Planning & Work Management

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 doesnt 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 solutionsincluding 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 reduce friction clarify status and surface dependencies.

• Drive adoption and behavior change: deliver playbooks templates training/office hours and comms that increase adoption and make new ways of working stickvalidated through sustained usage workflow compliance and observable behavior change (not just launch completion).

• Lead cross-functionally: connect Product Engineering Design Customer Success Sales and partners; represent the capability area in leadership forums as the voice of the customer and the voice of the product.

Qualifications

• 5 years of product management (or product owner) experience delivering SaaS capabilities; experience in workflow work management MarTech or operations software preferred.

• Demonstrated ability to be a storyteller: you can explain complex systems in simple compelling narratives tailored to marketing leaders practitioners and technical teams.

• Hands-on understanding of enterprise work management concepts: intake prioritization capacity/resourcing dependencies governance approvals and reporting.

• Strong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management skills; proven ability to influence without authority.

• Demonstrated consultative mindset: able to partner with stakeholders to frame ambiguous business problems evaluate options and guide teams toward scalable technical solutions without requiring fully formed approaches up front.

• Comfort operating at both 30000-foot strategy and 3-foot detail: you can define a roadmap and also debug a broken workflow with an admin.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

About Vanguard

At Vanguard we dont just have a missionwere on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning collaboration and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.