Product Manager

The Kroger Co. • Blue Ash, OH

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About The Position

The Product Manager will be responsible for identifying product requirements and future enhancements to support product strategies. This role involves creating, maintaining, and communicating product catalog roadmaps, including near-term delivery and long-term product evolution, to align stakeholders across the organization with company and business unit strategies. The Product Manager will foster strong cross-functional partnerships within the Kroger matrix organization. Key responsibilities include identifying, measuring, and improving product catalog metrics to enhance customer/user experience, and developing a compelling product vision using various data sources such as web metrics, customer insights, feedback, research, and operational metrics. The role also involves identifying opportunities for best-in-class capabilities by leveraging customer feedback and team expertise, developing product plans, and delivering innovative experiences to market by collaborating with technical and non-technical partners. The Product Manager will model Agile principles by maintaining a groomed backlog and prioritizing it, and will set criteria for Minimum Viable Product to accelerate the delivery of enhancements and new capabilities. The ability to perform essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation is required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or higher (or foreign educational equivalent) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business, Marketing, or any closely related field.
• 3+ years of experience bringing customer-facing technology products to market.
• 3+ years of experience in software development, product management or business analysis within a technology-focused organization which must have included the analysis, development, and delivery of new or enhanced software products, applications, or digital solutions.
• 3+ years of demonstrated leadership experience in product management.
• Any amount of experience identifying metrics/key performance measures and using data to drive decisions that enhance customer/user experiences.
• Any amount of experience with written, oral, and presentation / public speaking communication with English proficiency.
• Any amount of experience with Agile methodologies.
• Any amount of experience may have been gained concurrently.

Responsibilities

• Identify product requirements and future enhancements to support product strategies.
• Create, maintain, and communicate product catalog roadmaps, including near-term delivery and 1-2 year product evolution.
• Create highly collaborative cross-functional partnerships across the Kroger matrix organization.
• Identify, measure, and improve key product catalog metrics to enhance the customer/user experience.
• Create a compelling, relevant product vision using web metrics, customer/user loyalty/insights, customer/user feedback/research and internal operational metrics.
• Identify opportunities to create best-in-class capabilities by leveraging customer & user feedback and team knowledge/expertise.
• Develop a product plan and deliver breakthrough experiences to market by working with technical and non-technical partners.
• Measure output, improve execution and continuously deliver production expectations.
• Model Agile principles by maintaining a groomed backlog and providing 1-N prioritization for backlog.
• Set criteria for Minimum Viable Product to increase the speed/frequency with which enhancements and new capabilities are delivered.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level