H&R Block, the world’s leader in tax preparation services, is looking for a Lead Product Manager – Platforms to join the Global Consumer Tax DIY Product team. This role is responsible for product strategy and leading teams that translate strategy into tactical execution. Develops, plans, and manages implementation of activities for extremely complex products with very broad scope, high impact, and long implementation time frames. Leads both the technology as well as the business change required, while ensuring that day-to-day operations keep functioning flawlessly during the transition. Consults with product sponsors, participants, stakeholders, and customers to review product proposals including goals, time frames, and funding limitations. Develops and manages product budgets and marketing integration. Manages a product team and is accountable for developing Product Managers through coaching and mentorship. 

• Guide and mentor, a team of product managers to develop strategies, roadmaps, metrics, and backlogs while setting a superior standard for quality and delivery of a customer centric product. 
• Work cross-functionally to drive improvement around the way we work leveraging the principles of Lean, Agile, and DevOps to minimize waste and maximize speed to value.
• Responsible for supporting, translating, and negotiating company and DIY initiatives into product OKRs with teams.
• Accountable for ensuring outcomes and key results are accomplished and in line with business and customer needs.
• Measure team progress, remove roadblocks and identify efficiencies to move fast but effectively towards our goals.
• Ensure teams are following best practices using appropriate product management processes, tools, and frameworks.
• Establish strong working relationships to optimize how platform work is identified, resourced, socialized, and tracked; particularly with the following departments: Information Security, IT, Data, and extended partners.
• Convert the strategy and strategic initiatives into well-developed plans and objectives over different time frames.
• Engage with senior leadership to provide regular updates on product initiatives and ensure business alignment.
• Set platform strategy and roadmap balancing both client needs and partner.