Product Lead

At Broadridge, we've built a culture where the highest goal is to empower others to accomplish more. If you’re passionate about developing your career, while helping others along the way, come join the Broadridge team.

Product Lead – Skills

1. Strong domain and business knowledge in relevant product, operations, and technology areas.

2. Experience working with agile product delivery teams across multiple squads.

3. Strong knowledge of backlog management, prioritization, release planning, and dependency management.

4. Ability to assess business value, urgency, risks, capacity constraints, and delivery trade-offs.

5. Experience using Jira, ESM, dashboards, and reporting tools for backlog and delivery visibility.

6. Strong stakeholder management skills across Product, Engineering, Delivery, Operations, SMEs, and business teams.

7. Ability to translate product strategy and business needs into actionable priorities for squads.

8. Strong communication, influencing, and problem-solving skills.

9. Experience coaching or mentoring Product Owners, Business Analysts, or similar roles.

10. Understanding of functional requirements, non-functional requirements, technical debt, production support, and continuous improvement.

11. Ability to work effectively in a complex environment with high request volumes and competing priorities.

12. Understanding of agile principles, product operating models, and governance practices.

Product Lead – Roles & Responsibilities

1. Act as the domain-level product lead for a defined area, such as Core, Print, or Voting/Tabulation/Edit Load.

2. Translate Product Manager strategy, roadmap priorities, and business objectives into clear direction for Product Owners and squads.

3. Support prioritization and sequencing of work across squads, including discretionary initiatives, run/OCC work, lite requests, regulatory work, production support, and technical debt.

4. Review incoming requests for business value, urgency, timelines, dependencies, impacted squads, capacity implications, and governance needs.

5. Ensure requests are categorized and prioritized using agreed criteria, such as Critical, High, Medium, and Low.

6. Work with Product Owners to align squad backlogs with domain priorities, roadmap commitments, and available capacity.

7. Guide Product Owners on backlog quality, requirement readiness, prioritization, stakeholder communication, and dependency management.

8. Participate in key business and refinement discussions for complex, high-priority, cross-squad, or high-risk initiatives.

9. Ensure appropriate SME involvement for discovery, technical clarification, spikes, and requirement validation.

10.Coordinate with Delivery Managers, Engineering leaders, QA leads, SMEs, and Scrum Masters on delivery constraints, dependencies, and sequencing impacts.

11. Maintain visibility into domain-level capacity, delivery risks, blockers, resource constraints, and impacts to roadmap commitments.

12. Identify and escalate priority conflicts, major trade-offs, cross-squad dependencies, and delivery risks to the Product Manager when needed.

13. Support domain intake reviews, backlog reviews, prioritization discussions, and governance preparation.

14. Provide regular domain-level updates on priorities, progress, risks, capacity, dependencies, and milestone impacts.

15. Coach and support Product Owners; where needed, directly perform Product Owner responsibilities for specific initiatives, including gathering requirements, creating/refining stories, managing backlog items, and supporting delivery through completion.

We are dedicated to fostering a collaborative, engaging, and inclusive environment and are committed to providing a workplace that empowers associates to be authentic and bring their best to work. We believe that associates do their best when they feel safe, understood, and valued, and we work diligently and collaboratively to ensure Broadridge is a company—and ultimately a community—that recognizes and celebrates everyone’s unique perspective. 

Use of AI in Hiring 

As part of the recruiting process, Broadridge may use technology, including artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools, to help review and evaluate applications. These tools are used only to support our recruiters and hiring managers, and all employment decisions include human review to ensure fairness, accuracy, and compliance with applicable laws. Please note that honesty and transparency are critical to our hiring process. Any attempt to falsify, misrepresent, or disguise information in an application, resume, assessment, or interview will result in disqualification from consideration.