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, youll unlock an exciting and impactful career all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the worlds leading financial services institutions.
Your Team & Role
As a Director, Strategic Initiatives in the Agile Enablement Office(AEO), you will collaborate across the enterprise on the development, prioritization, and implementation of an evolving suite of planning and collaboration tools used by a wide range of Agile practitioners, partners, and leaders to enable them to be high performing, manage work and priorities, have visibility across bodies of work, and deliver customer focused, business outcomes. As a key member of the AEO, you will lead a small team of analyst and developers supporting agile transformation across the enterprise. With a growth mindset, product focus and customer centric way of thinking you will partner across the enterprise to understand user needs, continuously evolve, and improve our offerings, develop tools-related training and learning, and drive change plans that inspire people to leverage technology to improve how they work.
Location: Newark, NJ hybrid work arrangement preferred. Virtual work arrangements will be considered for those outside of the commutable Newark area.
Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day
Defining Strategy, Roadmap and Backlog
In partnership with relevant stakeholders, define and execute strategy to support the user needs of our agile planning and collaboration toolset (Jira, Jira Align, Confluence, Miro, Agility Health)
Create and maintain an ongoing roadmap by working with business areas to identify, sequence, and prioritize user requests
Vendor management responsibilities for all tooling vendors
Collaborate with vendor partners on new and future capabilities to drive the tooling strategy
Understand the user needs and continuously scan the tooling marketplace confirming we are using "best in class"
Drive change and communication plans related to tooling releases and new functionality
Manage the day-to-day operations support process
Work with the team to increase automation that will decrease number of support tickets and inquiries
Partner across the organization to implement integrations with other application that will increase our user satisfaction
Responsible for tooling documentation, training, and overall interactions with the user community
Provide SME consulting to Agile teams about how to implement and use these tools
Partners with coaches and engagement leads to satisfy our customer needs
Lead and effectively leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to the benefit of the organization.
Team Management:
Lead, mentor and manage a small team in executing upon the roadmap and day-to-day operations
Manage backlog prioritization and daily activities of team members
The Skills & Expertise You Bring
Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
Demonstrated leadership in guiding and coordinating team efforts
Skilled in mentoring and motivating team members to achieve common goals
Ability to coach others with minimal guidance optimally leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts, and perspectives to the benefit of the organization
Experience with agile development methodologies
Experience working in a centralized technology organization that support users across multiple business units
Experience navigating large complex organizations to solve enterprise level problems
Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges
Excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills
Deep experience and/or expertise with several of the following:
Deep understanding and expertise with implementing and supporting SaaS Product, preferably Atlassian products, experience with whiteboarding tools like Miro
Youll Love Working Here Because You Can
Join a team and culture where your voice matters; where every day, your work transforms our experiences to make lives better. As you put your skills to use, well help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. Youll be surprised by what this rock-solid organization has in store for you.
What we offer you:
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.
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