Advisor Product Manager

Essential Functions:
The Product Manager's responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• User centered ideation, discovery, definition and delivery
• Customer research to develop empathy, identify critical problems to solve, expectations, and behaviors.
• Business stakeholder interviews to understand operational complexities, strategic objectives and plans, impacts and considerations.
• Analysis of quant & qual data (internal and external) to aid in prioritization.
• Analysis of the competitive landscape and recommendation for positioning.
• Analysis of industry trends and emerging opportunities.
• Technology partnership to evaluate technical constraints, complexities, & capabilities.
• Financial modeling for ROI analysis.
• Strategic roadmap development near term vision that will drive iterative value.
• Storytelling & socialization of product with business & technology stakeholders.
• Use cases, journey mapping, hypothesis development.
• Identification of KPIs, engagement & operational metrics for each slice of scope.
• Stakeholder management
• Navigate complexities of stakeholder landscape - leverage expertise to drive alignment and engagement.
• Interviews partners, facilitate working groups, one to one discussion, group showcase forums etc. - with a goal of uncovering operational and organizational impacts.
• Consider business process impacts & dependencies. Work with the appropriate partners to ready the business for the product.
• Agile product delivery
• Partners with Iteration Manager, Tech Lead, QA, and engineers to continuously improve and maximize output of delivery team.
• Effectively builds & prioritizes user stories for each iterative delivery partnering with UX, tech, QA, business SMEs to deliver each.
• Maintains outcome focus by adjusting product roadmap, release strategy, & scope priorities based on realities of an agile environment.
• Product Hind sighting
• Partners with analytics team to develop & implement test strategy to validate key hypotheses.
• Measures impact of product post-launch leading to sound recommendations for continued investment or pivot.
• Regular, dependable attendance & punctuality and perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Competencies:

• Bachelor's degree required, MBA a plus.
• 5-7 years of product management experience; within Retail industry.
• Ability to effectively share technical information, communicate technical issues and solutions to all levels of business
• Able to juggle multiple projects - can identify primary and secondary objectives, prioritize time and communicate timeline to team members
• Ability and desire to take product/project ownership
• Ability to work a flexible schedule based on department and Company needs.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to read, write, and interpret instructional documents such as reports and procedure manuals.
• Must have above average mathematical skills, including the ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages, and the ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference.
• Must be able to work independently with minimal supervision.