Senior Product Manager - Online Platform
About The Position
Join the team building the foundation for how homedepot.com comes to life for our customers. In this role, you'll partner closely with balanced teams — product, engineering, and UX — to create internal tooling that empowers them to configure pages and deploy reusable components at scale. The ideal candidate has experience in platform or developer tooling, and is energized by enabling other teams to move faster and build better. The Sr. Product Manager is responsible for assessing market needs and inspiring cross-functional product teams to find the fastest way to achieve value around those needs. The role focuses on delivering business value to drive sales, improve efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction through the production of quality products. Within their designated enterprise product line, Sr. Product Managers work closely with teams of developers, designers, and business partners. They support in-depth business reviews, communicate and present across all levels of the organization and support cross-functional product teams. Importantly, the Sr. Product Manager, must be able to work at the strategic level (generating innovative ideas for growth, change management) and at the tactical level (analyzing data, solving problems, being a force multiplier and leader of their teams). The Sr. Product Manager is often responsible for products that are higher-profile and/or that are larger in scope.
Requirements
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
- 3-6 years of relevant work experience
- Experience working as a Product Manager in a modern software development based enterprise environment
- Experience with 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 user stories
- Proficiency in conducting user research and testing to understand needs
- Proficiency in identifying goals, metrics and analytics to measure product value
- Proficiency in conducting competitive research and analysis
- Experience guiding more junior team members through Product Management fundamentals 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
- 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
- Partners with Finance to understand financial needs and assist in the creation of business plans for new opportunities
- 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
- Formulates, tests and refines assumptions and hypotheses through user research and testing
- Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
- 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
- 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)
- Participates in talent acquisition, development and retention activities in support of team
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
