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Flex Senior Manager, Product Operating Model Design
United States, Bethesda 48.26 - 80.86 USD / Hour · Job Posted April 17, 2026
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Job Description
The Flex Senior Manager, Product Operating Model Design partners with business units and product and technology leaders to help define target user experiences, map end-to-end journeys, and translate insights into the capabilities needed to enable effective agile team structures and drive successful product transformation outcomes. This role supports the design and operationalization of fit-for-purpose product operating models (ways of working, governance, decision rights, funding, talent/skills, and tooling) that accelerate value delivery, improve customer and associate experiences, and increase organizational agility.
Job Responsibility
Support business units in defining target user experiences, mapping customer/associate journeys, and translating insights into product and platform capability roadmaps
Design and document agile product team topologies (e.g., value streams, product lines, platform teams) including roles, responsibilities, interfaces, and capacity assumptions to enable scalable delivery
Develop product operating model components including governance forums, decision rights, intake/prioritization, portfolio sequencing, and outcomes-based metrics
Help establish funding and capacity allocation approaches (e.g., product/value stream funding) and connect investment decisions to measurable business outcomes
Define and standardize core ways of working (planning, discovery/delivery, dependency management, release management, and value measurement) aligned to enterprise agile practices
Partner with business and technology leaders to identify operating model gaps and implement pragmatic solutions that remove friction, clarify accountability, and improve time-to-value
Create and maintain operating model artifacts and playbooks (operating model blueprint, RACI, team interaction model, ceremonies, dashboards) that enable consistent adoption across teams
Produce and maintain operating model and transformation reporting (KPIs/OKRs, flow metrics, adoption measures, benefits tracking) to support governance forums and decision-making
Lead workstreams within multi-workstream product transformation programs from diagnostic through design and implementation, ensuring clear scope, integrated plans, risk/issue tracking, and measurable outcomes
Facilitate executive and working sessions to align stakeholders on the target operating model, transition approach, and impacts to teams, leaders, and partners
Partner with HR, capability/coaching, and mobilization teams to develop and deliver enablement (training, coaching, leader routines) that builds product, agile, and change capabilities
Implement adoption and sustainability mechanisms (leadership rhythms, coaching model, communities of practice, inspection/adaptation loops) to embed new ways of working
Requirements
5-8 years of experience in management consulting, internal consulting, product operations, transformation, or strategy roles, with demonstrated success delivering complex change initiatives
Strong proficiency in product operating model design concepts including value streams, team topologies, governance, decision rights, funding/capacity models, and performance management
Ability to support definition of user experiences, map journeys, and translate customer/associate needs into capability requirements and prioritized roadmaps
Program and workstream leadership skills, including stakeholder management, facilitation, structured problem solving, and benefits/OKR tracking
Experience partnering with product, design, engineering, data, and business teams
comfort operating in ambiguity and driving alignment to decisions and action
Nice to have
Experience with product and agile tooling and practices (e.g., Jira/Confluence, Azure DevOps), flow metrics, and outcomes/OKR measurement
Hands-on experience designing and implementing operating model governance, portfolio/roadmap management, and value stream funding approaches
Ability to create executive-ready narratives and artifacts (target operating model, business case, transformation roadmap, dashboards) for senior decision makers
Experience leading workshops and working groups (journey mapping, capability modeling, team design, governance design) and driving decisions across diverse stakeholders
Strong leadership presence, communication, and influencing skills
able to navigate organizational complexity and coach leaders through change