IT Product Manager III
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Project Description:

• We work with multiple product and enterprise teams to bring new capabilities in the commerce experience. 

Projects include:

• Implement enterprise and other product domains to be supported by the digital channel. 
• Expanding current capabilities to support other channels and product categories.

Position Summary/Job Description:

• This product manager will partner with cross-functional teams, stakeholders and other product teams on a regular basis in order to align on deliverables.
• They will work with development team on a daily basis to drive new capabilities to completion.
• This individual would assist in ideation and roadmap management for the commerce platform domain.

Education/Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree in an IT-related discipline, 8-10 years’ experience in a product management role

Skills and Competencies: 

• Excellent follow up to ensure tasks are being delivered according to plan
• Understanding of APIs and overall software development 
• Strong leadership skills
• Strong communication skills 

Major Job Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Align product strategy with enterprise and digital programs to develop objectives and key results
• Accountable for detailed user stories aligning with high level goals so the team understands the feature’s intended outcome.
• Provide updates to Program Managers at project status meetings. 
• Responsible for reviewing analytics, customer feedback inputs, and meeting with stakeholders to identify opportunities to drive the business and improve the customer experience
• Responsible for keeping the sprint team's backlog prioritized based on current enterprise priorities and goals and team roadmap
• Responsible for reviewing intake submissions and to determine if the customer need is already in progress or if it meets team goals
• Responsible for identifying scope and making trade-off decisions
• Responsible for prioritizing features for feasibility discussions
• Relationship building and management with key partner and stakeholders
• Responsible for communicating background, requirements, impacts and scope of a work effort
• Responsible for tracking and reporting KPIs and benefits after feature release
• In partnership with team, responsible for updating/maintaining Wiki documentation on new domain feature releases. 
• Create and maintain Wiki page for new feature ideas that includes high level user stories and supporting data

How much time will the resource spend pair programming? 

• Not applicable

Skills Overview:

What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?

• Communication skills, both written and verbal. Clearly communicate objectives and key results of initiatives.
• Technical skills, including API interaction and relationship to the driving the customer experience.
• Business skills, understand customer and business impacts to drive prioritization based on risk and value. 
• Market research, based on competitive analysis provide feedback on opportunities or gaps.
• Analytical skills, gather and analyze data to make data driven decisions.

What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?

• Consumer retail experience
• eCommerce experience