Line Planning & Design Sr Product Manager, Digital Product Creation

Levi Strauss•San Francisco, CA

11d•Hybrid

About The Position

Levi Strauss & Co. is seeking a Senior Product Manager to join their Digital Product Creation program. This role will support merchandising and design teams in bringing products from concept to physical garment. The position is ideal for someone interested in the intersection of physical products and the digital tools used in their creation. The focus will be on line planning and design, aiming to improve collaboration within product creation teams to determine which products to offer to customers. The Senior Product Manager will lead a suite of tools and capabilities end-to-end, defining the vision and translating it into digital functionalities for the teams using these tools. This role involves working across various operations and collaborating with other Digital Product Managers, offering opportunities for growth as a product leader. It is an individual contributor role. Experience in line planning, merchandising, design, or product creation, particularly within the retail and apparel sectors, is highly valued.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in product management, math, statistics, engineering, computer science, or other quantitative fields.
5+ years of experience in product management.
Experience in both new build and 3rd party vendor platforms.
Comfortable from discovery through adoption.
Clear documentation of user journeys, epics, and requirements.
Experience using data and insights to inform product development.
Ability to summarize insights and lead with a clear recommendation.
Track record in product discovery and rallying teams.
Curiosity about the industry and the craft; following other retailers and evolving technologies.
Ability to promote collaboration and new ideas across geographical and cultural boundaries.
Experience communicating product updates, milestones, and progress to a variety of audiences at all levels, across multiple departments.

Nice To Haves

Preference for experience in both new build and 3rd party vendor platforms.
Experience in line planning, merchandising, design, or product creation.
Background in retail and apparel.

Responsibilities

Define and promote a vision for the future of Line planning and Design.
Lead the product strategy to rewire how work is done from line plan to sketching, and how these connect to merchandising, product development, and downstream systems.
Motivate and inspire partners, other PMs, and the technical team around the vision, promoting its benefits.
Manage a suite of tools and capabilities that support Global Merchandising and Design end-to-end.
Translate the vision into use cases, requirements, and user stories.
Manage the full spectrum of product development, using prototypes and MVPs to test assumptions and refine direction based on user engagement.
Collect and summarize data to inform product development and lead with clear recommendations.
Use experimentation to define hypotheses, run tests, and learn what works and does not work for fans and the business.
Work with partners and operations to document current-state processes, identify opportunities for significant change (rewiring, not just optimization), and guide process change and adoption.
Establish OKRs and an analytics strategy to shape insights.
Monitor the success of goals on a daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis.
Manage a dynamic product backlog, prioritizing new ideas, enhancement requests, competitive analysis, and engagement data.
Collaborate with 3rd party vendors, communicating product updates, milestones, and progress, and influencing vendor roadmaps.
Make difficult tradeoffs between using out-of-the-box functionality and customizing the platform.
Support product releases and lead rollout and adoption with business operations teams, understanding ways of working and user needs.
Keep a pulse on the industry by conducting competitive analysis, evaluating other retailers, and staying informed on evolving technologies in line planning and design.
Be a leader and contributor to the product organization by sharing better ways of working, mentoring, and helping to elevate the team.