Product Management Manager

The Home Depot•Smyrna, GA

23h•Onsite

About The Position

As a Group Product Manager within Orange Apron Media- AdTech, you will be focused on two things: 1. Developing and coaching your team to become the best Product Managers possible. As a Product Management Manager (Group PM), your team of 3 Sr PMs IS your product. From your experience, help your team continue to grow and develop into world class product leaders. 2. Defining the strategic context for your group of connected products. Ensuring that the product roadmaps for the teams in your product group are all in support of OAM's overall strategy and OKRs.

Requirements

Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
5-7 years of relevant work experience
Proficiency in working as a Product Manager in a modern software development based enterprise environment and overseeing multiple products
Proficiency in modern software development product management practices and agile methodologies, specifically the extreme programming (XP) principles of paired programming, test driven development, and continuous deployment
Proficiency in working in a fast paced, fluid environment where priorities shift on a regular basis
Proficiency in communicating with and influencing functional and technical team members at all levels in the organization
Proficiency in working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern software design and development team
Proficiency in creating, prioritizing and accepting epics and user stories
Proficiency in conducting user research and testing to understand needs
Proficiency in identifying goals, metrics and analytics to measure product value
Experience conducting competitive research and analysis
Experience guiding more junior team members through Product Management fundamentals in a professional setting
Experience balancing workloads across teams
Proficiency in active listening communicating at all levels (Executive Leadership Team, store associates, etc.) while gracefully managing expectations of multiple stakeholders
Experience managing and growing team members in a professional setting
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.

Nice To Haves

No additional education
No additional years of experience
None

Responsibilities

Looks across product teams and feature sets with a focus on alignment and dependencies
Gains a thorough understanding of customer and associate needs, both existing and potential, and uses that knowledge to help deliver enterprise products that provide Home Depot customers and associates with an unparalleled shopping experience
Translates business goals and end user needs into product strategy and clearly communicates direction and product priorities to the product team and business partners
Meets with users and stakeholders as needed to understand processes, pain points and system waste in order to identify where to improve the user experience
Creates epics to drive improvements to product vision, features and back end systems, and adjusts for new business models
Determines value to the business of anticipated product updates
Identifies goals, metrics and appropriate analytics to measure the performance of products and continually makes recommendations and refinements to products based on learnings
Reviews recommended solutions and work of product team to ensure products are aligned with company, stakeholder and end user priorities
Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
Removes roadblocks and obstacles that may impair product teams to help ensure delivery of the product in order to meet strategic, financial and technical goals
Provides regular updates to leadership regarding progress of products within portfolio
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 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)