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As the Associate Director, Digital Lending Product Management , you will guide a team that is charged with overseeing product lines that contribute directly to the revenue of a business unit. This extends from increasing the profitability of existing products to developing new products for the company. You must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy; a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. You must enjoy spending time in the market to understand customer problems and find innovative solutions for the broader market. You will be expected to serve as an evangelist for your industry and for your product. You must also exhibit a high degree of professionalism in your work and interaction with others.

You will be responsible for working with various stakeholders to develop and maintain a strategy for our digital lending solutions, with a specific focus on our eSigning and loan management services. That strategy will help you define product release priorities, the product vision, key milestones defined by critical functionality and the requirements that comprise each Sprint and each release.

You are expected to lead your team, properly prioritizing work with your team members in support or the team’s product vision. You must oversee and manage their professional development. You will work with the market strategy group, and marketing communications to define the go-to-market strategy, helping them understand the product positioning, key benefits, and target customer. You will also serve as the internal and external evangelist for your product offering, occasionally working with the sales channel and key customers.

In this role, you will report to the Director, Product Management and work a hybrid schedule (Two days in office and three days from your remote home office).

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain required professional knowledge; keep abreast of current developments and trends in area of expertise; use this expertise to help develop plans and strategies to introduce new technology when appropriate; recommend and develop innovations which enhance operations and/or provide a competitive advantage.

• Lead and develop team to deliver successful results on time and within budget.

• Build products from existing ideas and help to develop new products based on your industry experience and your contact with customers and prospects.

• Use a structured approach to analyzing and resolving complex problems; secure and evaluate relevant data from appropriate sources and trends and identifies key issues and relationships to determine the critical issues relative to a problem; develops effective conclusions and comprehensive recommendations.

• Set priorities and allocate proper amounts of time to assigned activities. Maintain an awareness of interrelationships among activities. Maintains an organized approach and meets or exceeds agreed upon time and quality standards for end work product.

• Involved with full lifecycle application development, with emphasis on agile development (scrum, sprints, incremental design) methodologies.

• Understand appropriate design, development, and testing methodologies to ensure a quality software product.

• Develop alternative courses of action and makes decisions based on logical assumptions and which reflect factual information.

• Build market confidence in the Wolters Kluwer organization, and the business benefits and integrity of its products and services.

• Maintain the confidentiality of eOriginal strategies, plans and other proprietary information.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in business, technology or related. Advanced degree preferred.

Experience:

• 7+ years Product Management experience

• Strong familiarity and/or experience working with or at a lender who is involved in digital lending to include consumer, commercial or real estate financing.

• Previous experience in the mortgage industry with a specific understanding of the mortgage closing process and an appreciation on how electronic closings can benefit the industry.

• Familiarity with electronic document delivery and esigning of financial instruments that can be collateralized and securitized.

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. Ability to articulate the product vision to the external market and internal stakeholders.

• Strong familiarity with developing business cases and roadmaps that support the business strategy, product vision, and product goals.

• Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively in a team environment.

• Strong leadership skills to help drive requirements gathering with stakeholders from numerous teams.

• Can articulate potential product opportunities available in application processing, data validation or verification, and the move from paper to digital lending.

• Familiarity with Agile principles, Sprint planning practices, product refinement and story estimation.

• Familiarity with contextual research and incorporating UX/UI design methodologies as part of the Sprint planning process.

• Familiarity with object-oriented methodologies, principles, practices, and modeling.

• Familiarity with REST API concepts and terminology.

• Previous experience launching new products and product extensions.

• Experience working in product teams that support business high-volume transactional systems is a strong plus.

• Understanding of Web services (REST, WSDL)

• #LI-Hybrid

Benefits:

A comprehensive benefits package that begins your first day of employment. Additional Information: Wolters Kluwer offers great benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Commuter Benefits, Tuition Assistance Plan, Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave . Full details of our benefits are available - https://www.mywolterskluwerbenefits.com/index.html

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Wolters Kluwer strives for an inclusive company culture in which we attract, develop, and retain diverse talent to achieve our strategy. As a global company, having a diverse workforce is of the utmost importance. We've been recognized by employees as a European Diversity Leader in the Financial Times, as one of Forbes America’s Best Employers for Diversity in 2022, 2021 and 2020 and as one of Forbes America’s Best Employers for Women in 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018. In 2020, we placed third in the Female Board Index, and were recognized by the European Women on Boards Gender Diversity Index. Wolters Kluwer and all of our subsidiaries, divisions and customer/departments is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer.

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