Sr. Product Mgr. & Enterprise App Developer

Vomela•Elk Grove Village, IL

About The Position

At Vomela our greatest asset is our people. As a full-service visual communications company, we are looking for creative and intellectual thinkers that work with our customers to create compelling brand solutions and foster meaningful connections. And while you're focused on creating big things for global and local brands, we will help you build a career you can be passionate about. Apply now to find your place at Vomela. Job Summary We are seeking a rare hybrid professional — part senior product strategist, part hands-on enterprise developer — to lead the design, rapid prototyping, and delivery of enterprise applications for our retail clients. This is a high-impact, high-autonomy role for someone who thrives at the intersection of technology, product thinking, and customer-facing delivery. You will own the full product lifecycle for our suite of enterprise applications, including storefront management platforms, store profiling tools, and customer portals. You will work directly with clients to understand their operational workflows, then move rapidly from concept to working software — leveraging AI-assisted development to compress timelines and elevate output quality.

Requirements

7+ years of combined experience in product management and software development, with meaningful time spent in hands-on development roles
Proven track record designing and delivering enterprise applications — customer portals, SaaS platforms, internal tooling — for large organizations
Experience working directly with enterprise clients in a client-facing product or technical lead capacity
Background in retail, supply chain, manufacturing, or adjacent industries strongly preferred
Experience building applications that integrate with enterprise systems (ERP, PIM, DAM, CRM)
AI/ML integration: OpenAI API, Anthropic Claude API, LangChain or similar
CI/CD pipelines, DevOps fundamentals, Bitbucket, Kubernetes/AKS, GitFlow
Relational and document databases (SQL Server, MongoDB,)
Authentication, authorization, and enterprise security patterns (SSO, OAuth, RBAC)
REST and GraphQL API design and development
Rapid prototyping with AI-assisted dev tools (Claude, Cursor, Copilot, etc.)
Cloud platforms —MS Azure, Fabric, Kubernetes
C#, .Net, Javascript, Event Streaming (Kafka), Microservices architecture
UX/UI design sensibility; ability to work in Figma or similar tools
Strong command of product management frameworks — roadmapping, OKRs, Agile/Scrum, user story mapping
Exceptional ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Experience scoping, estimating, and delivering projects under tight timelines
Comfort operating in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with high ownership and limited hand-holding
Experience launching a successful, customer-facing B2B product from ideation.
The ability to make decisions quickly when information is lacking.
Demonstrated ability to multitask and manage priorities in order to deliver on commitments.
Attention to detail and a knack for working cross-functionally to identify risk early. The details aren’t the details, the details are your product.

Nice To Haves

Experience with storefront management, visual compliance, or physical retail program management platforms
Familiarity with large-format print production workflows, signage programs, or retail display operations
Experience building or leading small product/engineering teams
Exposure to computer vision, image recognition, or geospatial data in a retail context
Prior work with data visualization dashboards (D3.js, Recharts, Power BI, Tableau)
Consulting or agency background with multiple concurrent client engagements
Be energized by a nascent and evolving team and organization - There is an appetite for change and opportunity for direct impact and growth.

Responsibilities

Define product vision, roadmap, and success metrics for Vomela's suite of enterprise retail applications
Conduct discovery sessions with enterprise clients to translate complex operational needs into clear product requirements
Prioritize features and manage the backlog in close collaboration with clients, internal stakeholders, and engineering
Develop and maintain product documentation, user stories, wireframes, and acceptance criteria
Own the end-to-end customer experience from onboarding through ongoing engagement on all portal platforms
Architect and build enterprise-grade applications including storefront profiling tools, asset management portals, and workflow automation systems
Rapidly prototype solutions using modern frameworks and AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude API, etc.) to validate ideas and accelerate delivery
Design scalable, secure backend services and APIs that integrate with client ERP, PIM, and workflow systems
Build and maintain customer-facing portals that provide real-time visibility into program status, asset libraries, and approval workflows
Lead technical architecture decisions and ensure solutions are enterprise-ready — performant, secure, and maintainable at scale
Embed AI capabilities into product experiences — including intelligent image analysis, automated store profiling, and predictive program recommendations
Build and maintain internal AI tooling that accelerates the team's development velocity
Stay at the leading edge of generative AI, agentic workflows, and LLM-based product design — bringing new capabilities into Vomela's platform
Prototype and evaluate emerging AI technologies for viability in Vomela's retail context
Serve as a trusted technical and product advisor to enterprise clients throughout the engagement lifecycle
Lead client demos, technical walkthroughs, and product reviews with stakeholders up to the VP and C-suite level
Define and manage project timelines, milestones, and delivery commitments across concurrent engagements
Collaborate with Vomela's operations, design, and installation teams to ensure digital solutions connect seamlessly to physical program execution
Own the roadmap for your product area by balancing customer, business and market needs and both qualitative and quantitative data.
Understand complex problems, break them down into manageable pieces and work cross-functionally to propose simple solutions.
Know our customer better than anyone else, advocate for them and facilitate a human-centered approach to problem solving and product delivery.
Define success then fail fast and iterate quickly.
Lead product design and engineering team members to create innovative solutions that are viable, desirable and feasible with daily incremental progress.
Collaborate and communicate cross-functionally to encourage alignment and transparency particularly around problem clarity, plans, priorities, progress, goals and challenges.
Provide a sense of direction, organization and accountability to your development team along with the ability to communicate on a technical level with engineers and designers.
Develop the business case for new products, improvements to existing products, and business ventures
Work closely with engineering, sales, marketing, and support to ensure business case and customer satisfaction goals are met
Prepare operations, marketing, sales and support for launch.
Become a subject matter expert in both the product and industry.