Posted in Other about 2 hours ago.
Location: college park, Maryland
Head of Product Development & Delivery
Who we are:
The American Physical Society (APS) is a nonprofit membership organization working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, and education, outreach, advocacy, and international activities. APS represents more than 50,000 members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and throughout the world.
Position Summary:
The Head of Product Development & Delivery at APS is a strategic and dynamic leader, charged with steering the organization's technology initiatives towards innovation, operational excellence, and ensuring the delivery of first-class customer experiences. This role is central to integrating technology strategy with APS’s mission and goals. Responsible for guiding the IT Project Management and Product Owner teams, this position plays a critical role in shaping the technological landscape and driving digital transformation. This role is instrumental in fostering a culture of continuous improvement, agile practices, and user-centric product development, while also ensuring that IT initiatives are aligned with the evolving needs of the scientific community and publishing industry.
APS has a “remote first” concept that promotes equal treatment and equal access within the United States, independent of physical work location, with a majority of staff working primarily from remote work locations. APS values diversity and welcomes candidates from a variety of backgrounds. APS offers a dynamic work environment with an outstanding total compensation package, including salary, outstanding benefits, and excellent paid time off.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership and Planning:
Facilitate and support roadmap development activities to align technology initiatives with APS strategic priorities, while collaborating with Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) for cross-departmental initiative prioritization and governance.
Regularly review and update roadmaps in response to evolving APS priorities, customer needs, and stakeholder feedback.
Product Owner and PMO Team Management:
Collaborate with EPPM to support the implementation of a portfolio management system, ensuring the tool aligns with both enterprise-level project portfolio management needs and technical project execution.
Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to improve the customer experience by evaluating qualitative and quantitative feedback and prioritizing improvements.
Drive operational excellence by advancing agile project lifecycle management and continuous improvement processes.
Coach, mentor, and support the development of a multidisciplinary team. Advance the teams’ capabilities in business analysis, project management, and product ownership.
Resource and Capacity Planning:
Establish a dynamic resource allocation model for Information Systems resources, in collaboration with the EPPM department, that adapts to project demands and team capabilities.
Implement capacity planning tools to effectively forecast and manage workload distribution.
Collaboration and Innovation Facilitation:
Organize cross-departmental sessions to ideate and develop new solutions
Explore emerging technologies and their applications through targeted pilot projects that align with APS’s strategic goals and priorities.
Drive initiatives that integrate user research and user-centric design into the product development process.
Leadership in Stakeholder Communication:
Develop a communication strategy that addresses diverse stakeholder needs, ensuring alignment and understanding with various APS departments.
Act as the primary liaison between Information Systems and other APS departments, translating technical challenges and solutions to non-technical stakeholders.
Collaborate closely with department managers and senior leadership to understand and integrate their needs into technology strategies.
Collaborate closely with the Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) department on project/portfolio management and strategic planning activities.
Work with the Head of Engineering and other technology leaders to align technology solutions with organizational goals.
Engage with technology vendors, consultants, and partners to drive APS's technology agenda.
Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Marketing, Engineering, Technology, or related fields.
Preferred Certifications:
Travel: The position requires up to 5% of travel for in-person meetings with staff as well as periodic travel to attend meetings and events as part of its core responsibilities, as well as additional travel as assigned.
Salary:
The salary range for this position takes into account various factors influencing compensation decisions, such as skill sets, experience, training, and other business and organizational requirements. The salary listed within the specified ranges considers relevant experience. Our compensation philosophy at APS aims to maintain salaries at the midpoint of the market. As a result, we typically hire within the target starting range. Exceptional, rare cases may merit reviews above target starting range for specialized or niche skills aligned with strategic operational goals.
Hiring Range: $139,776/year - $190,444/year (USD)
Target Starting Range: $139,776/year - $155,500/year (USD)
Work Environment:
As noted above, APS offers a “Remote First” workplace. Although our Editorial Offices are located on Long Island, you can work from other places in the United States. We are flexible about work hours, but expect responsiveness during the core of the workday, Eastern Time.
This is Us:
Help us achieve our mission of advancing and diffusing the knowledge of physics for the benefit of humanity, promote physics, and serve the broader physics community.
Our Core Values:
Departmental Values:
The Information Systems departmental values complement and extend the APS Core Values. How we work and how we interact must embody these values which encompass the areas of Customer Outcome Focus; Dedication and Responsibility; Quality and Agility; Curiosity, Open-mindedness, and Innovation; and Teamwork and Collaboration. The values are further described in a separate document, and every Information Systems employee has a responsibility for upholding them.
Amazing 2024 Benefit Offerings:
The American Physical Society is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. It is the policy of American Physical Society not to discriminate or allow the harassment of employees or applicants on the basis of race, religious creed, immigration status, alienage or citizenship, religion, color, ethnicity, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, familial status, protected veteran status, protected military status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, predisposing genetic characteristics, ancestry, domestic violence victim status or any other characteristic protected by law with regard to any employment practices, including recruitment, advertising, job application procedures, hiring, upgrading, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, job assignments, benefits and/or other terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, provided the individual is qualified, with or without reasonable accommodations, to perform the essential functions of the job. This policy applies to all jobs at APS. The American Physical Society is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request a reasonable accommodation, please contact APS Human Resources at hr@aps.org. The “Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal'' poster, prepared by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), provides an overview of several laws that protect you from discrimination on the job, and several rights are afforded to you by these laws. The “Pay Transparency Non Discrimination Provision,” prepared by the U.S. Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), provides an overview of several protections implemented to protect individuals working under federal contracts from discrimination when inquiring about or discussing compensation; these protections apply to all employees and applicants. The APS has a "remote first" concept that promotes equal treatment and equal access, independent of physical work location, with a majority of staff working primarily from remote work locations.
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