Senior Product Manager, Orange Apron Media (Creative Management)

Home Depot•Summit, NJ

5d•Onsite

About The Position

We're seeking a Senior Product Manager to define and lead the strategic vision for how Orange Apron Media enables customers to manage and optimize creative assets. You'll drive two key priorities: 1) Building a self-service platform that lets advertisers independently create and manage their own creative and 2) Improving internal workflows to reduce pain points in our managed services experience. The ideal candidate is a strategic product leader who can design end-to-end solutions, navigate cross-functional complexity, and manage through ambiguity to create clarity.

Requirements

Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
3-6 years of experience with AdTech, Retail Media Networks, OR Content Management Systems (CMS)
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 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 actionable product roadmaps
Proficiency in creating well-articulated and clear product requirement documents (PRDs)
Proficiency in prioritizing backlogs to maximize value
Proficiency in conducting discovery, 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