Job Description
Responsibilities:
- 40% Strategy & Planning
- Looks across product teams and feature sets with a focus on alignment and dependencies
- Sets the overall product vision and strategies for the enterprise product by gaining a thorough understanding of customer and associate needs, both existing and potential, and using that knowledge to provide our cleint
- customers and associates with an unparalleled shopping experience
- Drives growth for the business by applying domain expertise to provide thought leadership and translate vision into action
- Collaborates across the enterprise to create alignment between products in order to provide a seamless user experience
- Understands financial and business impact of proposed product updates and activities within portfolio, prioritizes updates to support the enterprise roadmap, and based on prioritization allocates funding across the products
- Identifies goals, metrics and appropriate analytics to measure the performance of the product and its individual features, and continually makes recommendations and refinements to the product based on learnings
- Contributes to and makes recommendations for strategic plans in support of key objectives in a timely and fiscally responsible manner
- Participates in and influences development of technology roadmaps across the enterprise
- Supports and nurtures strategic vendor relationships; recommends ways to influence vendors that align to domain, portfolio, and enterprise strategic objectives
- 30% Delivery & Execution
- Drives product development by reviewing performance and directing work efforts of product teams to ensure products are aligned with company, stakeholder and end user priorities
- Understands enterprise goals and KPIs to ensure value is delivered against them
- Resolves issues within or across product teams that may impair teams from delivery of a quality product in order to meet strategic, financial and technical goals
- Receives and prioritizes incoming requests from business partners and stakeholders while keeping in mind the business strategy, product vision and user needs
- Provides guidance on design of products while keeping in mind dependencies and integration with other products across the enterprise
- Reviews and analyzes product metrics to inform strategic and tactical product decisions
- Makes suggestions that help drive operational excellence to create internal customer satisfaction and meet operational metrics
- 30% Team and Stakeholder
- Provides leadership, mentoring and coaching to Product Managers
- Attracts, retains and develops top talent to build a world class Product Management Team
- Conducts annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback
- Fosters collaboration with team members (Engineering, UX, etc.) to drive value and identify and resolve impediments
- Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
- Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the product, empathizing with and understanding user need
- Works with the product team to continuously assess progress, disseminate lessons learned, and understand next steps
- Manages cross functional team and stakeholder expectations to execute on product strategy and provides education to requestors to determine prioritization based on tangible benefits and/or user experience
- Guides more junior team members in strategy, alignment, analysis and execution tasks
- Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree
- Minimum 6 years of experience in digital product management
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
- MBA or Masters degree
- 5+ years of experience translating business strategy and analysis into consumer facing digital products
- 5+ years of experience in Retail, Delivery, and Technical Rules Engines
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