Senior Product Analyst - Merchandising Planning

DICK'S Sporting Goods

1d•Remote

About The Position

At DICK’S Sporting Goods, we believe in how positively sports can change lives. On our team, everyone plays a critical role in creating confidence and excitement by personally equipping all athletes to achieve their dreams. We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, reflecting the communities we serve. If you are ready to make a difference as part of the world’s greatest sports team, apply to join our team today! Welcome to Product Management at DICK’S Sporting Goods, where we specialize in delivering retail excellence along every aspect of the customer journey. Our mission focuses on crafting intuitive, easy-to-use products that span across our business. We are looking for a new team member to join our technology team, partnering with product teams to bring product-market viability ideas that inspire, innovate and deliver elevated experiences for our teammates, customers and products. The Product Analyst will support the development and optimization of upstream merchandising systems, including assortment planning, assortment management, assortment optimization, new store assortment planning, and store group management. This role focuses on ensuring these systems effectively support merchandising decision-making while delivering intuitive and efficient user experiences. Because these capabilities rely on extensive integrations with foundational and adjacent systems, the Product Analyst will play a key role in understanding and managing the flow of data across platforms. The analyst will help ensure that data inputs, structures, and workflows are accurate, well-governed, and designed to enable seamless system interactions. A strong understanding of end-to-end business processes is critical to success in this role. The Product Analyst must understand the full user journey—from upstream merchandising inputs through downstream operational and reporting impacts—to ensure changes are thoughtfully designed and do not create unintended system or process disruptions. Working closely with product, engineering, merchandising, and analytics teams, the Product Analyst will translate business needs into clear requirements and workflows, while ensuring users have access to the insights and data necessary to make informed merchandising decisions. As a Senior Product Analyst, you will partner with product managers, product designers and software engineers to deliver products and services that align to strategic priorities as well as achieve product-market fit. You will be an active participant in the organization and deliver high-quality products through the following: Analytical Services As a Senior Product Analyst, you will lead strategic analytic services in partnership with technology and business teammates. You may work across multiple technology portfolios, business domains and functions to develop an in-depth understanding of the business, processes, services and operations. Data Steward Where appropriate, you will act as a technical data steward for priority data domains where you will support efforts in documenting data definitions and key business metric calculations. This role is a critical enabler to ensuring the data moving through the system is governed and accurate within data domains. Functional/Technical Requirements The Senior Product Analyst role partners closely with product managers to understand the strategic vision and roadmap of a product. You will work with several product managers across several product teams to identify and document functional and technical specifications for product development. You will work with software engineering, data engineering and architecture to determine how to develop the solution to meet the product and customer expectations. As part of the team, you are accountable to partner with software engineering and product management on the testing and acceptance of technical requirements before shipping to production. Operations Support You will implement maintenance and efficiency procedures, monitor product health and stability, gather system statistics and troubleshoot reported errors. Working back with the product team to ensure prioritization and resolution as quickly as possible.

Requirements

Experience working with product management, product design and software engineering in a modern development environment
Foundational understanding of Scrum and Agile methodologies
Understanding of software development lifecycle
Technical and analytical expertise
Knowledge of business intelligence tooling and code base analytical tools
Comfortable working, combining and analyzing data from different source and maturity levels
Ability to navigate and collaborate across technology and business partners
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Strong retail business processes knowledge
Excellent organizational skills
Strong deductive reasoning skills
Curious attitude and desire to learn

Nice To Haves

Experience in building data requirements, data models and source to target mappings preferred
Use of graphs, infographics and other methods to visualize data and support KPI measurement

Responsibilities

Lead strategic analytic services in partnership with technology and business teammates.
Act as a technical data steward for priority data domains, supporting documentation of data definitions and key business metric calculations.
Partner with product managers to understand the strategic vision and roadmap of a product.
Identify and document functional and technical specifications for product development.
Work with software engineering, data engineering and architecture to determine how to develop solutions.
Partner with software engineering and product management on the testing and acceptance of technical requirements before shipping to production.
Implement maintenance and efficiency procedures, monitor product health and stability, gather system statistics and troubleshoot reported errors.
Create and maintain process maps and workflow documentation.
Identify dependencies between systems, teams, and data flows.
Update documentation as processes or systems evolve.
Define business definitions for key metrics and fields.
Ensure consistency in how data is captured and interpreted across systems.
Partner with engineering and analytics teams on data model alignment.
Collects and organizes data to solve problems or answer questions.
Asks insightful questions to drive actionable insights.
Partners with the product management organization to share insights that inform product roadmaps.
Works closely with Product Management and Product Design to define opportunities for improvement within product portfolio.
Solves problems with a fresh perspective rooted in data.
Pushes experimentation to find creative ways to solve problems.
Transforms meaningful data into digestible and actionable insights.
Provides critical analysis without bias or expectations to inform product strategy.
Uses data analysis to effectively communicate the “why”.
Creates methodical and systemic guides for appropriate use and transformation of data.
Uses graphs, infographics and other methods to visualize data and support KPI measurement.
Marries data and insights to inform a strategy that benefits both the business and the customer.
Visualizes data in ways that help partners understand and interpret the data through storytelling.
Performs ad hoc analytics to resolve and inform accurate requirements gathering.
Documents data definitions and key business metric calculations.
Documents technical requirements in user story format for data engineering, machine learning engineering and software engineering teams to execute against.
Performs quality assurance testing on technical specifications to confirm feature acceptance.
Mines and merges data to develop insights on key business and technology challenges.