Job Description

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and thats more than some cliche people put on job postings. We live this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. Youre constantly evolving, so shouldnt your opportunities be, too?

The Opportunity

The Manager role supports the product management and related operations with analysis, best practice's research, and routine monitoring of key process indicators. The Manager also serves as project lead and ongoing advisor for specific functions in product delivery and product life cycle initiatives. They may manage a team of product analysts providing supervision, guidance, and support of daily operations and special projects.

The Work Itself

Customer Advocate: Understands the needs of the business buying the product and selects a feature set that is most valuable to the end-users

Communicator: Communicates the vision and intent deferring detailed feature and design decisions to be made just-in-time

Business Advocate: Understands the need by the organization to pay for the construction or implementation and selects a mix of features that serve their goals

End-User Advocate: Describes the product with an understanding of users and use, and a product that best serves both

Subject Matter Authority: Learns the domain well enough to envision a product; answers technical questions on the domain for those creating the product

Partners with stakeholders and customers across the organization to guide the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization

Leads the product lifecycle process based on knowledge of business goals serves as driver of product direction across multiple teams and verticals

Works in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines achievements and deliverables, and ensures a constant stream of work for the agile teams

Utilize data insights to drive direction and evolution of product and obtain buy in from leadership

Translates product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including epics, user stories, and acceptance test criteria

The Skills You Bring

* Bachelors degree in business, technology or operations
* 3+ years leadership experience preferred
* At least 3 years of experience in Product Management and/or Product Development
* Experience working with Agile technical teams, bridging the gap between team, stakeholders, and business partners
* Experience in underwriter operations or contract processing operations for an auto finance firm is a plus

How Well Have Your Back

Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. But Allys total compensation or total rewards extends beyond your paycheck and is designed to support and enrich your personal and professional life, including:

* Time Away: competitive holiday and flexible paid-time-off, including time off for volunteering and voting.
* Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan and 529 educational assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, and other financial well-being programs.
* Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including dental and vision, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally and financially.
* Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy, and fertility support as well as parental and caregiver leave, back-up child and adult/elder day care program and child care discounts.
* Work-Life Integration: other benefits including LifeMatters Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers program and other employee discount programs.

Who We Are

Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com.

Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. For accommodation requests, email us at work@ally.com. Ally will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.