Director, IT Product Management

Job Description:

The Role

As Director, IT Product Management, you will be working within a team responsible for managing products and vendors throughout the entire product lifecycle, including strategic planning in support of the Mainframe and Batch Services Team. This includes owning the product requirements, vendor contracts, budget / technology spend, building / presenting business cases, and collaborating with business unit partners. You will serve as a focal point for the products you own by identifying opportunities, developing strategies, participating in purchasing governance processes, driving optimization, and managing business / vendor relationships.

• Develop relationships within Fidelity & with vendors

• Discover strategic opportunities using data driven insights

• Collaborate in the design of innovative solutions to complex problems

• Negotiate terms & conditions of new & existing contracts

• Present proposals to executive audiences

• Drive optimization based on research & measured results

• Manage Product P&L while driving scale and efficiency

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• 10+ years of technical product &/or vendor management experience

• Related Vendor Experience:

  • Mainframe Operating System & Products (Vendor IBM)

    • Z series Mainframe Compute and Storage

  • Batch Workload Management / Workload Orchestration (Vendor BMC)

  • Mainframe software - formerly known as (Vendor CA Technologies)

    • Security, System Monitoring & Alerting & Analytics

• Key Mainframe subsystems and technologies

  • CICS, LPARs, DB2, MQ, Zos, WAS (WebSphere)

• Ability to translate technology terminology to business relatable terms

• Expertise in managing vendors and contracts through the acquisition and renewal process

• Strong interpersonal, negotiating, and influencing skills with a demonstratable ability to engage senior management and across all levels of the organization

• Data-focused approach, with the ability to translate strategic objectives into action

• Ability to define product features and break them into clear and concise stories with well-defined business value and acceptance criteria

• Strong focus on execution and ability to identify, communicate, and remove impediments

• Capable of leading, influencing, and motivating colleagues

• Continuously improve, encourage, and collaborate with team members, demonstrating servant leadership behaviors

• Agile experience: Jira and Jira Align, preferred

• Financial experience a plus

• Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

The Team

We are committed to empowering enterprise infrastructure and operations through innovative, reliable, and scalable product solutions. Our team drives strategic initiatives by crafting compelling use cases that secure leadership support and funding.

Rooted in our values of integrity, excellence, and customer focus, we collaborate across business units to deliver measurable impact. We engage with internal stakeholders and external partners to advance technology, optimize operations, and deliver exceptional value to the organization.

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Fidelity’s hybrid working model blends the best of both onsite and offsite work experiences. Working onsite is important for our business strategy and our culture. We also value the benefits that working offsite offers associates. Most hybrid roles require associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office.

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.