The Group Squad Leader (GSL) provides vision, creates strategy and develops partnerships across an integrated set of squads aimed at delivering timely products and value to the end customer. The GSL manages an integrated roadmap for product development across the aligned squads, partnering with other leaders to align product area level strategic priorities, planning and curating a shared backlog and ensuring clear prioritization and communication to the Squad group and members for successful execution. Additionally:

As manager of the aligned Squad Leaders, the GSL provides group leadership, individual coaching and development to enable the effectiveness of the Squad Leaders and broader squads.

This group of squads is focused on Money movement, Investment Management and Platform Engineering aspect of Digital Shared Services. The GSL will be responsible for providing oversight and support for product capabilities owned by this group of squads.

• Sets overall purpose and vision for the work of the squad and squad group, providing integral thought leadership across squads on key points of integration, backlog trade-off and alignment in collaboration with the Product Area leaders to ensure alignment on overall strategy.
• Partners as a “powerful pair” with CLs in the Triad of Product Mgmt, Engineering & Human-Centric Design to align on strategic decisions, solution development and work priorities, ensuring the best-in-class engineering disciplines are at the core of PI’s Product solutions
• Serves as the end-to-end owner of the mission, strategy, product life cycle and value creation of the squad group and works with the Squad Leaders to prioritize work and is responsible for the integrated roadmap.
• Empowers squad members and squad leaders in squad group to execute and achieve business results and client value.
• Supports aligned squads as they create value delivered through prioritization, creativity, innovation, collaboration, and decision making.
• On own squad, responsible for scrum events and representing the voice of the client in all squad activities. Ensures alignment on the “what” and “when” work is to be performed through ongoing planning and prioritization of a product backlog.
• Partners with chapter and product area leaders to support squad talent needs, defining skill gaps, and building learning opportunities to achieve the strategic direction of the domain and product areas.
• Makes decisions based on anticipated future trends, issues, and business drivers.
• Manages many dependencies and must work with and influence many internal and external stakeholders on the roadmap.
• Navigates and guides squads within squad group through high degree of organizational complexity in support of cross-domain and cross-squad work.

• Typically, 18+ years of deep technical and functional experience in agile, product management, technology and/or business
• Experience leading projects with new/emerging technology and/or products in the early strategy and design stage.
• People management experience, including performance management, goal setting, coaching, development, and engagement.
• Makes decisions that impact results with limited guidance and oversight and shift focus and/or direction to meet changing conditions.
• Uses strong analytical and judgement skills to determine the direction and achievement of goals; keeping key stakeholders informed on progress.
• Uses strong influencing and problem-solving skills to resolve competing product area/squad level strategic priorities.
• Effective communicator and relationship manager with internal and external customers.