How will this role impact First Command?
The Senior Digital Product Manager drives the vision, strategy, and execution of digital solutions for Client Relationship Management with a focus on Wealth Management & Banking. The role defines and prioritizes an outcome-based roadmap, translates business needs into actionable Features (Vision, Business Needs, Value), and partners with business and delivery teams to ensure solutions deliver measurable value, quality, and compliance readiness.
As the primary business-context Subject Matter Expert (SME), this role communicates the 'why' behind the work and ensures alignment across stakeholders and delivery teams. Operating independently, the role champions strategic roadmap and feature-definition practices, anticipates constraints and risks early, reduces churn through clear requirements and alignment, and defines and monitors product metrics tied to value realization.
Strategic Roadmap Ownership
- Independently own product vision and an outcome-based roadmap for Client Relationship Management, aligned to business strategy and enterprise OKRs.
- Independently identify and manage cross-product and cross-team dependencies; coordinate sequencing and release planning with stakeholders and delivery leadership.
- Maintain visibility and traceability of prioritized opportunities and features in Azure DevOps (or equivalent) to keep roadmap, backlog, and delivery synchronized.
- Champion strategic roadmap practices and proactively manage dependencies to improve predictability.
- Translate business needs into complete, actionable features that articulate Vision, Business Needs, Value, and acceptance intent.
- Maintain a prioritized feature backlog that supports delivery planning through Current Sprint +2; ensure clarity, priority, and sequencing align to the roadmap.
- Collaborate deeply with Digital Product Owner, architecture, engineering, and quality partners to validate feasibility and reduce churn through early alignment.
- Anticipate constraints (security, legal/compliance, privacy, operational readiness) and mitigate early through discovery and feature definition.
- Champion feature definition standards and reduce rework through clearer acceptance intent and earlier alignment.
- Perform feature/solution acceptance to verify delivered work solves the original business problem and supports intended value realization.
- Define product and experience metrics and monitor trends; use evidence to refine priorities and value-capture plans.
- Independently escalate delivery gaps, value risks, and quality concerns early; drive resolution and prevention with delivery and stakeholders.
