Job Description

DescriptionJob PurposeAn IT Product Lead (ITPL) provides product consultation to Corteva\'s Agile Product teams and solution providers through collaboration with both business and technology stakeholders. ITPL is directly responsible for helping the business achieve their goals by serving as a critical role in the Product Development Process, bridging business strategy, process, and technology execution.As a Technology Leader they contribute by:

• Possessing deep product knowledge - maintains product roadmap and business capability roadmap, applying Product best practices
• Knowing the Business - works to develop a deep understanding of business process and challenges to help envision unforeseen process/technology capabilities that maximize business value
• Knowing our Capabilities - develops and leverages broad knowledge of Corteva\'s enterprise digital capabilities to maximize utilization, reduce time to market, standardize execution, and enable global scalability
• Knowing the Industry - develops and maintains current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology, always on the lookout for new technologies, trends, and best practices that elevate the digital experience

As a Builder they contribute by:

• Mapping Business Capabilities - understands Corteva business and IT processes to uncover, map, and monitor business processes to assess current state. Identifies standardization and simplification opportunities and emerging requirements for improving business processes.
• Crafting the Design - performs needs assessments, defines scope, budget, identifies solutions/risks, and creates high-level solution designs. Creates high level requirements sand acceptance criteria.
• Developing the Roadmap - transforms the strategic plan into a rolling product plan, working to gather input from business and technology stakeholders. As a Senior ITPL, presenting a balanced view of business and technology priorities, and being able to influence and present trade-offs becomes an increasing expectation.

As an Operator they contribute by:

• Managing Product Development Delivery - maintains business capability maps and facilitates product roadmap tactical execution and planning. Creates high-level requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Supporting the Team - performs impact and business value assessments for defects, changes, opportunities and ensures overall solution health and technical excellence. Possesses a deep understanding of all product backlog items. Validates and communicates releases to business partners.

How an ITPL work

• Maps Business Capabilities: Collaborates with Business stakeholders, Product Owners, and technology counterparts to define and drive the tactical, day-to-day aspects of discovering, validating, documenting and mapping business processes through modeling, simulating and analyzing current and future states
• Designs Solutions: partners with UX, Engineers, ITPM (IT Product Manager) and stakeholders to discover needs, provide mock-ups, t-shirt and detailed estimates for holistic solution delivery

Manages Product Roadmap: Partners with the business and IT stakeholders to drive multi-year and annual product strategies; collaborates with ADL, PMs, and delivery teams to guide business aligned executionWhat are an ITPL\'s skills and behaviors?

• Strategic Enablement: Leverage technical leadership to enable business strategy through constructing technical product roadmaps through discovery and innovation of IT solutions. Ability to invent process/technology capabilities that users never imagined; can start from scratch.
• Business IQ: Growing knowledge and understanding of their business partners and how they fit within Corteva overall; Participate in industry peer groups to understand industry trends. Passion for user-centered design, results driven by insights and analytics and a focus on investment return.
• Technology IQ: Growing knowledge and understanding of leading and emerging technologies related to their business partners and associated technology product families; Participate in industry peer groups to understand industry trends
• Organizational Agility: Views ambiguity as opportunity to define and drive business evolution and value; effortlessly structures large amounts of complex information within a process framework. Doesn\'t overthink; can identify analysis paralysis and over-engineering in self and others
• Communication EQ: Comfortable flexing communication styles to facilitate consensus, engages others with perspective thinking, knows negative triggers, fully self-aware, excels at presenting ideas and solutions

What are an ITPL\'s Primary Responsibilities?

• Facilitates defining Rolling Roadmap for multiple years along with OKRs and KPIs
• Facilitates Quarterly Planning Facilitate the 4 Quarter Plan
• Documents and monitors business processes to assess current state. Identify standardization and simplification opportunities and emerging requirements for improving business processes
• Translates business needs into specific business requirements. Collaborate with Solution Architects to translate business requirements into functional / technical requirements
• Supports BRM (Business Relationship Manager) and PM (Product Manager) with estimating benefits to business processes and building business cases
• Create user stories for desired solution functionality
• Partners with Solution Architects and Developers to support solution development activities
• Partners with delivery vendors. Communicates technical requirements, define deliverables, and oversee execution
• Collaborates with IT Infrastructure & Operations to define Release plan

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field
• 10+ years experience in business analysis, designing solutions and supporting technology product roadmap maintenance and evolution
• Ability to invent process/technology capabilities that users never imagined; can start from scratch
• Views ambiguity as opportunity to define and drive business evolution
• Can easily structure large amounts of complex information within a process framework
• Good knowledge and understanding on the business processes especially on Commercial and operation
• Rich experience to enable business process efficiency & effectiveness for value creation with IT products
• Experience in working with Agile methodologies
• Advanced analytical, conceptual & innovative thinking capability
• Strong communication skills, including primarily conducting business in English while working with regional & global teams with diverse culture
• Practical experience in agriculture industry is helpful, but not required

Corteva