Sr Product Owner - OMS

Ulta Beauty, Inc.•Bolingbrook, IL

17h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Sr Product Owner plays a pivotal role in evaluating market demands and motivating diverse product teams of Ulta’s OMNI fulfillment ecosystem to efficiently address those demands. Constantly optimize current omnichannel fulfillment (Ship to home, ship from store, Buy online pick up in Store, Same day delivery, Store to door, etc.), third party marketplace, social commerce to improve speed, accuracy, and inventory efficiency, and provide seamless and premium customer experience. This position is centered around delivering tangible business benefits, such as boosting sales, enhancing operational efficiency, and elevating customer satisfaction, by consistently producing high-quality products.

Requirements

5-7 years of relevant work experience.
Experience working as a Sr Product Owner in a software development centric enterprise setting.
Industry experience in retail.
Experience working on Order Management and OMNI-Fulfillment centric product.
Experience with contemporary product management practices in software development and proficiency in agile methodologies.
Experience in communicating and influencing team members, from both business and technology, at all levels in the organization.
Experience in creating, prioritizing, and accepting user stories.
Experience in conducting user research and testing to understand needs.
Experience in identifying goals, metrics, and analytics to measure product value.
Experience in conducting competitive research and analysis.

Responsibilities

Gain profound insights into the end user's needs and leverage that understanding to identify the most efficient route for delivering value swiftly.
Transforms organizational objectives and user requirements into a strategic product plan.
Conveys guidance and product priorities effectively to the development team.
Leads cross-functional teams and managing complex product development initiatives
Recognizes objectives, metrics, and analytics to assess the value of the product.
Consistently offers suggestions and enhancements to the product backlog informed by acquired insights.
Manages and grooms the product backlog.
Shapes forthcoming decisions by assessing the anticipated value to be delivered by leveraging strategic thinking and analytical skills
Develops, evaluates, and fine-tunes assumptions and hypotheses through user research and testing.
Documents, evaluates, and verifies compliance with all quality and change control standards.
Generates, prioritizes, and approves user stories.
Integrate them into the release planning process.
Recognizes and evaluates the advantages, disadvantages, challenges, obstacles, dependencies, and value associated with features and enhancements.
Engages in stand-up meetings, iteration planning sessions, product demonstrations, and retrospectives.
Simplifies complex engineering concepts into easily understandable language for stakeholders.
Nurtures the development of product owners by offering guidance on contemporary software product development frameworks and leading discussions on industry trends.
Proactively seeks avenues for personal growth and acquires pertinent skills through both formal and informal developmental pathways.
Keeps a close eye on research and the competitive environment to suggest optimal solutions, ensuring that products either maintain or attain best-in-class status.
Identify clear objectives, establishing relevant metrics, and leveraging analytics to gauge the value of the product. This entails setting specific goals aligned with business objectives, determining measurable metrics that reflect progress towards those goals, and employing analytical tools to track and interpret data accurately. By diligently monitoring these indicators, the team can effectively assess the impact and value of the product within the market landscape.