Data Product Manager, Retail Media+ (Remote)

Position Purpose:

The Data Product Manager (PM) position is responsible for identifying the strategic information needs for Retail Media+ and leading the development of descriptive analytics measures and tools to provide insights to the organization. Within their designated product line, PMs focus on delivering incremental value by driving product changes and working closely with a team of developers and business partners. They support in-depth business reviews, communicate and present across all levels of the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

50% Strategy & Planning

• Seeks to empathize with and understand the end user deeply and use that knowledge to determine the fastest path to deliver value

• Translates business goals and end user needs into product strategy; communicates direction and product priorities to the development team, other matrixed teams, and third-party partners

• Identifies goals, metrics and analytics to determine product value; continually makes recommendations and refinements to the product backlog based on learnings

• Manages and grooms the product backlog; makes future decisions based on the value that will be delivered

• Monitors research as well as the competitive landscape to recommend the best solutions and ensure that products remain or become best in class

• Ensures that product directions balance both the user needs and business goals of driving sales, improving efficiency and enhancing customer satisfaction

20% Delivery & Execution

• Formulates, tests and refines assumptions and hypotheses through user research and testing

• Creates, prioritizes and accepts user stories; incorporate them into release planning

• Makes product decisions that drive value on a daily basis

• Identifies and considers pros, cons, issues, obstacles, dependencies and value associated with features and enhancements

• Participates in standups, iteration planning sessions, product demo, and retrospectives

• Condenses complex technical concepts into non-technical language for stakeholders

30% Team & Stakeholder

• Fosters collaboration with team members 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 needs

• 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)

• Participates in talent acquisition, development and retention activities in support of team

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Reports to Sr. Manager Product, Online Data Analytics & BI.

• This role has 3 direct reports.

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.

• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent degree in statistics, computers sciences, information management or another quantitative field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A strong background (minimum of 3 years) in analytics, business intelligence, business strategy or finance

• excellent at writing for and presenting to a variety of audiences

• Demonstrated success designing and executing a product strategy and roadmap.

• Some (even limited) experience in a product management and in marketing, media, or Retail Media.

• Experience leading agile ceremonies

• Experience with jira & confluence

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 6

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None