Description & Requirements
Our mission is to help Bloomberg build the right products—faster, smarter, and with greater impact—so we can continue to thrive in a complex, constantly evolving world. As coaches, we provide product expertise, tailored coaching experiences, and active listening to help leaders and teams adopt an effective product operating model grounded in shared outcomes, collaboration, and continuous learning.
The coaching team is dedicated to strengthening product, agile and leadership practices across Bloomberg. We offer coaching, facilitate targeted workshops, and help foster a culture of evidence-based, outcome-driven product thinking. This role will work with leaders in the Product, Engineering and Data organizations across all businesses for Bloomberg. We’re hiring for a Head of Coaching role to help scale and deepen our coaching impact across the organization. You will work with multiple team leads leading cross-functional teams to drive impact, efficiency, and collaboration throughout the product lifecycle. As part of a growing coaching team, you’ll also help shape our own strategy, develop insights, and grow our team.
We’ll trust you to:
- Lead a coaching organization that coaches individuals and teams, focusing on helping Bloomberg adopt the product operating model, product competencies such as vision, outcome-driven roadmaps, decision-making strategies, experimentation, metrics, and stakeholder management to deliver exponentially impactful products
- Lead a coaching organization whose mission is to instill a Product Operating Model at Bloomberg. This coaching team will work with senior leaders and teams to improve product competencies such as strategic planning and outcome-driven execution.
- Further develop a training program for product managers that teaches experimentation and discovery practices, metric driven decision making and other leading product management practices
- Apply product thinking to micro and macro problems across the organization
- Assess product management maturity in place at all levels of leadership, educating and coaching to identify trends and opportunities for systematic improvement
- Lead your organization to develop insights, metrics of success, hypotheses, strategic documentation, resource allocation, and workshops
- Contribute to a growing vision and strategy for the coaching team that drives the mission and vision of the company at large
You’ll need to have:
- 8+ years of experience as a product leader
- 5+ years of experience in a leadership role
- Ability to build trust with senior executives, product managers and cross-functional teams
- Product expertise across the product development lifecycle
- Superb communication skills including front of room leadership, executive stakeholder management, marketing and presentation skills, written and verbal pitches
- Hands on experience launching new products, evolving legacy products, transforming teams, and working with executive leadership
- Prioritization of momentum over perfection, with a deep understanding of effective processes and the ability to apply frameworks and methodologies to address specific problems (OKRs, Journey Mapping, etc.)
- Experience collaborating and problem solving with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, program management, data, sales, and design
- High capacity for collaboration and open communication
- A learning mindset
- A proven ability to navigate and influence within both high-growth and legacy environments
We’d love to see:
- Experience as a manager of managers
