Product Operations Lead

Product Operations Lead

Position Overview
Our client is a well-established consumer financial services company undergoing a large-scale digital and product transformation. They are building new ways of working across Product, Design, Engineering, and Go-to-Market teams and are hiring a Product Operations Lead to help scale product excellence and measurable impact across the organization.

This  is a hybrid opportunity, onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in New York, NY, Wilmington, DE, Baltimore, MD, or Dallas/Irving, TX.

The Product Operations Lead will focus on building the systems, partnerships, and visibility that enable teams to consistently deliver high-quality product outcomes that drive customer retention and growth. This role is highly hands-on and fluid-one day focused on documentation and workflows, another on training and enablement, and another on experimenting with GenAI tools to redefine how Product, Design, and Engineering operate in an AI-enabled environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Operating Model & Delivery Excellence
  • Establish, evolve, and scale the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC), ensuring delivery is efficient, repeatable, and outcome-driven.
  • Design and implement scalable product management workflows, tools, and rituals that improve execution quality, reduce delivery friction, and enable PMs to operate with greater autonomy.
  • Own and improve product tooling and workflows (e.g., Jira, Confluence, analytics, experimentation platforms), including assessing current usage and driving meaningful improvements.
  • Build operational systems that improve predictability, velocity, and delivery consistency across teams.
• Strategic Alignment & Cross-Functional Partnership
  • Drive strategic alignment across Product, Engineering, Design, Customer Success, Sales, Marketing, and Operations.
  • Ensure high-priority initiatives are clearly defined, well-sequenced, and delivered faster with greater business impact.
  • Act as a connective layer across functions, improving communication, prioritization, and shared understanding of outcomes.
  • Partner closely with product leaders to align roadmaps with business goals and customer needs.
• Customer Insights & Discovery Enablement
  • Build and operationalize customer feedback and discovery frameworks that connect field insights to product strategy and roadmaps.
  • Ensure customer insights from research, analytics, and frontline teams are consistently synthesized and accessible to Product Managers.
  • Enable product teams to translate insights into action, driving measurable improvements in adoption, retention, and customer satisfaction.
• Measurement, Visibility & Outcomes
  • Establish outcome measurement and reporting systems that clearly track product success and business impact.
  • Define and operationalize OKRs, delivery metrics, and velocity tracking, connecting execution to growth, retention, and product quality.
  • Create visibility into wins and learnings, ensuring success is measurable, repeatable, and celebrated across the organization.
  • Foster a culture of data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement.
• GenAI, Enablement & Change Management
  • Experiment with and integrate GenAI-enabled tools into product workflows to improve efficiency, insight generation, and delivery speed.
  • Help define what it means to be a Product Manager, Designer, or Engineer in an AI-enabled world.
  • Develop playbooks, training, and enablement programs to support adoption of new tools, processes, and operating models.
  • Support change management efforts during an ongoing, large-scale transformation.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of experience in Product Operations, Product Delivery, or Product Management within a technology-driven organization.
• Strong preference for candidates who have transitioned from Product Manager to Product Operations.
• Proven experience building systems, processes, and partnerships that enable high-quality product delivery at scale.
• Demonstrated success aligning cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Sales, Marketing) around shared priorities and outcomes.
• Experience designing and scaling product workflows, operating models, and delivery rituals.
• Hands-on experience operationalizing customer discovery, feedback loops, and insight sharing across product teams.
• Strong background in outcome measurement, including OKRs, product metrics, and executive-level reporting.
• Familiarity with GenAI tools, workflow automation, or AI-assisted product workflows.
• Deep experience with Jira, Confluence, and modern product tooling ecosystems.
• Comfortable wearing multiple hats across strategy, operations, tooling, enablement, and analytics.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-influencing skills.
• Background in financial services or technology preferred.
• Experience in product-led organizations or similar environments is a plus.
• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.

In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data, including financial information. This position is onsite and requires you to work closely with other individuals in a collaborative team environment.

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For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.This is a new role.

This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 03/13/2026 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.

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