Vice President, Product Owner - API and Event Management

Job Classification:
Technology - Agile, Delivery, & Product

Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability, and efficiency? The Global Technology team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA! When you join our organization at Prudential, you'll unlock an exciting and impactful career - all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world's leading financial services institutions.

Your Team

As a Vice President, Product Owner for the Global Application Patterns team within the CTO, you will lead the strategy for critical application capabilities such as APIs and Events. You will partner with other product owners, tech leads, engineers, and delivery professionals to improve technology operations and establish a strategy for increasing automation, reducing undifferentiated heavy lifting, and enabling secure self-service. You will be responsible for the API and Events product roadmap and manage skilled tech leads to drive delivery and successful adoption of your products. You will be financially responsible for the end-to-end product line and empowered to efficiently run and scale your organization. As an expert in application development and event driven design, you will bring a breadth of technical and people leadership expertise to your team and promote a culture of continuous learning and continuous improvement.

• Create and maintain a global product roadmap based on an understanding of the business and the strategic potential of the capabilities you own (internal/external APIs, Events, etc.).
• Provide technical expertise as it relates to the core capabilities you own, APIs, and Events.
• Lead with an application development and automation mindset, promoting frequent, small changes.
• Learn and absorb the business needs to ensure strategic alignment for core capabilities.
• Ensure alignment of product features and stories, i.e., review, give feedback, and prioritize user stories in line with your roadmap and vision.
• Communicate frequently with business stakeholders to ensure engagement and buy-in on decisions and proposed solutions.
• Champion adoption of your product line, creating a user friendly and sustainable adoption model.
• Lead sprint and release plans together with the Scrum Master and organizational technology teams.
• Work with Tech lead(s) to build modular & reusable solutions.
• Manage the end-to-end financials of the product line.

• Deep Application Development, Engineering, Analytics, or similar experience
  
  
  • Strong technical experience in
    
    
    • Application Development, Automation, and Infrastructure as Code
    • Cloud Architecture
    • APIs - both internal and external
    • Event Driven Design
    • Resiliency, including multi region design strategies
    • Containerization - Docker or Kubernetes
    • Information Security - Oauth, mTLS, authn and authz
    • Network Security - Ingress/Egress controls
    • Observability - metrics, logging, and end-to-end tracing
    • DevOps and branching models to support frequent changes (e.g., trunk)
    • Modular and Reusable code
    • Agile methodology
    • Operations processes to support an active production environment.
• Overall operations incident process flow and driving towards faster Incident resolution.
• Understanding of observability and how signals and automation technologies can drive incident response to predict and avoid outages before they occur.
• Lead and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to the benefit of the organization.
• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges.
• Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills; enjoy learning new skills.
• Bachelors Degree or equivalent relevant experience
• Expertise with several of the following:

• Effective Communication: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools, and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
• Decision-Making & Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Interpersonal Relationships: Knowledge of the techniques and the ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups in a constructive and collaborative manner.
• Financial/Business Acumen: Strong Knowledge of financial and/or business concepts, tools and processes and how financial metrics are used to monitor and drive outcomes. Includes understanding of company accounts/metrics (ex: balance sheet, profit/loss, cash flow, budget & forecast).
• Analytical Thinking: Knowledge of techniques and tools that promote effective analysis; ability to determine the root cause of organizational problems and create alternative solutions that resolve these problems.
• Agile Methodologies: Knowledge of concept and principles of agile methodology; ability to apply appropriate agile approaches in the processes of software development and delivery.

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave
• Retirement plans:
• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%)
• Company-funded pension plan
• Wellness Programs to help you achieve your wellbeing goals, including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs
• Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
• Tuition Assistance to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree, many accredited certificate programs, and industry designations.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.