Product Manager

*Experience & Expertise*
Skills:

• Entrepreneurial spirit with a track record for delivery results in a fast-paced environment

• Proficient knowledge of product management techniques (product roadmap development, feature team planning, agile methodology), web services, online technologies and user interface design

• Proven ability to develop and nurture a product strategy – with direct experience in strategic planning, product management practices, and organizational, operational and/or technical change; Possess and up-to-date knowledge of technology standards, industry trends and emerging technology and innovation

• Knowledge and experience in developer tools, operational tools, and/or application management tools, including monitoring tools, build, continuous delivery (CI/CD), infrastructure as code, tools

• Strong understanding of DevOps with an understanding of how modern software is built, packaged, and deployed

• Strong knowledge of Agile fundamentals, theory, and practical experience from a product management/product owner perspective.

• Demonstrated ability to drive requirement definition and solution design sessions, working closely with stakeholders across the entire organization and with developers

• Capability of identifying technical impacts, recommend best-practices and/or alternate approaches, and provide timeline estimates

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to represent the team in open forums, to peers, and with senior executives.

• Proven customer skills, including the ability to Client the true requirements underlying customers' feature requests in order to identify the most important problems we could solve for.

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Team player, but has the ability to lead projects independently with little guidance

• Excellent analytical/problem-solving skills, including data analysis

• Ability to collaborate with senior leaders across business units and functions using data in order to gain alignment on groundbreaking corporate initiatives.

• Demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity to detailed solutions.

• Excellent leadership, partnership and collaboration skills.
Business Knowledge:

• Expert understanding of business value drivers with some understanding of a the broader business context

• Strong understanding of investment decisioning process, business case development, cost and recovery models
Experience:

• 3+ years of Product Management experience and leading cross-functional software projects

• 3+ years of experience with software and working with application lifecycle management tools, and popular product management frameworks and tools

• End-to-end product lifecycle management - strong experience in product management focused on technology products is an advantage

• Experience in scaling a diverse, dynamic and fast growing technology team

• Experience in leadership and/or management, ideally in a Retail organization

• Proven experience of building strong, cohesive partnerships with internal technology customer
Experience (Preferred):

• Experience in working with open-source projects

• Prior experience with developer platforms

• Experience with Azure, AWS, GCP and Oracle

• Experience in the Retail space

• Experience with product management tools (road mapping, mocks, wireframes, project management, Git tools, UI/UX tools)

• Experience with managing software development cycles implementing agile methodologies

• Worked with at least 2 different medium size engineering teams

• Can demonstrate and articulate past product decisions, product architecture and conflict management examples.

*Leadership Capabilities*

• Strong ability for delivering operational excellence

• Exceptional at prioritizing and focusing on the highest value opportunities

• Deep understanding on how to optimize teams to meet the ever-growing demands of a fast-paced environment

• Ability to work cross-functionally with matrixed and distributed teams to deliver results

• Executive presence and mindset, with the ability to roll up sleeves when necessary.