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Marathon Petroleum Corporation Lead Product Manager in Findlay, Ohio
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Position Summary
The Lead Product Manager will join the Infrastructure Platforms Product Line within the Midstream IT organization. As the Infrastructure Platforms Product Manager, you will play a pivotal role in the strategic direction and delivery of innovative Infrastructure Platforms, driving the evolution and reimagining of digital capabilities for Infrastructure Platform delivery, and adjacent Midstream business segments. The Infrastructure Platforms Product Manager position requires a deep expertise in Network, Virtualization, Server Hardware, and Azure Cloud technologies, along with a comprehensive understanding of IT and OT technologies. This position will work closely with Architects, Domain Leads, and Product Owners to tackle technical challenges while aligning them with business objectives. This involves breaking down silos between product lines and business units to deliver solutions that cover extensive value chains. Leading large-scale epic deliveries across multiple teams, both internal and external to the Infrastructure Platforms product line, is a key responsibility, along with managing a backlog of Epics & Features that often necessitate collaboration and coordination among various enabling teams. Working closely with Agile coaches and Scrum Masters, the role addresses complex issues, risks, and dependencies hindering solution delivery. Additionally, acting as a thought leader involves partnering with key leadership to identify avenues for enhancing the flow of value delivery.
This position belongs to a family of jobs with increasing responsibility, competency, and skill level. Actual position title and pay grade will be based on the selected candidate’s experience and qualifications.
Key Responsibilities
Push platform teams to deliver platforms as products, focusing on Infrastructure Vending Machines, Infrastructure as Code, and easily accessible End User Self-Service.
Develops customer and internal facing product development strategies with superior user experience across multiple verticals, including vision goals, and customer needs; accountable for complex/critical product and/or product lines, up to an entire portfolio of products.
Has accountability for leading the development of product roadmaps, prioritizing feature releases, and aligning them with business objectives. Drives cross-functional collaboration to gather insights, prioritize initiatives, and plan releases effectively.
Collaborates closely with portfolio teams, stakeholders, and business leaders to proactively identify and address challenges that arise during product development, ensuring successful execution of the product strategy.
Engages senior cross functional leaders and proactively addressing and resolving issues, fostering effective communication, and promoting alignment between business and operations teams, UX design, product, engineering, analytics, and customer support teams.
Organizes stakeholder priorities and works with teams in order to align needs with resources ensuring cadence with customer value, business value, and strategic fit. Consults with leadership, and various teams to provide value-driven priority and strategic decision-making.
Prioritizes the product backlog, processes and release plan for multiple features for a complex or higher profile product and plans the coordination of interdependencies with scrum teams and across lines of business.
Works with other teams, ensures team is aligned around similar goals and objectives / cross-team prioritization. Carries out ongoing analysis of product capability themes in order to support product direction.
Delivers product innovation, definition, deliverables planning (roadmap), and design of entirely new products to deliver against team and company goals.
Interprets and communicates product development builds on cross-departmental knowledge and puts the customer at the heart of all product changes.
Engages senior cross functional leaders and proactively addresses and resolves issues, fostering effective communication, and promoting alignment between business and operations teams, UX design, product, engineering, marketing, analytics, and customer support teams, as needed.
Education and Experience
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, related field or equivalent work experience required.
Product Owner certification or Product Management certification required. MBA or equivalent preferred.
7+ years of relevant product manager experience required.
Experience implementing DevOps methodologies and ways of working, ideally being very familiar with GitOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices preferred
Skills
Backlog Management - A prioritized list of work for the development team that is derived from the roadmap and its requirements. The most important items are shown at the top of the product backlog so the team knows what to deliver first.
Product Lifecycle Management - The handling of a good (product?) as it moves through the typical stages of its product life: development and introduction, growth, maturity/stability, and decline.
Agile Methodologies - Agile project management is an iterative approach to delivering a project throughout its life cycle, taking incremental steps towards the completion of a project.
Product Development - The creation, innovation, enhancement, or improvement of an existing product, or developing an entirely new kind of product to satisfy the requirements of its end-users.
Human-Centered Design - An approach to problem solving, commonly used in design and management frameworks that develops solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all steps of the problem-solving process.
Product Strategy - The process of outlining a company's strategic vision for its product offerings by stating where the products are going, how they will get there, and why they will succeed.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience. 7+ years of relevant experience
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Location:
Findlay, Ohio
Job Requisition ID:
00012176
Pay Min/Max:
$117,000.00 - $201,800.00 Salary
Grade:
12 - 13
Location Address:
539 S Main St
Additional locations:
Denver CO, San Antonio, Texas
Education:
Bachelors: Information Technology
Employee Group:
Full time
Employee Subgroup:
Regular
Marathon Petroleum Company LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, reproductive health decision-making, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition or AIDS/HIV status, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, military, veteran status, marital status, citizenship or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant, click here (https://marathonpetroleum.brandextract.com/staged/marathonpetroleum.com/content/documents/Jobs_/Department_of_Labor_EEOC_.pdf) . If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process at Marathon Petroleum LP, please contact our Human Resources Department at talentacquisition@marathonpetroleum.com . Please specify the reasonable accommodation you are requesting, along with the job posting number in which you may be interested. A Human Resources representative will review your request and contact you to discuss a reasonable accommodation. Marathon Petroleum offers a total rewards program which includes, but is not limited to, access to health, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, 401k matching program, paid parental leave, and educational reimbursement. Detailed benefit information is available at mympcbenefits.com. The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program. Equal Opportunity Employer: Veteran / Disability
About Marathon Petroleum Corporation
Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) is a leading, integrated, downstream energy company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company operates the nation's largest refining system. MPC's marketing system includes branded locations across the United States, including Marathon brand retail outlets. MPC also owns the general partner and majority limited partner interest in MPLX LP, a midstream company that owns and operates gathering, processing, and fractionation assets, as well as crude oil and light product transportation and logistics infrastructure.