Product Manager

Our client is seeking a Product Manager for a 12+ month contract opportunity for a fully onsite role in Irving, TX. No C2C.

• Bachelors/4 Year Degree
• 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• 5+ years of experience in product management, agile environment.
• Strong discovery and requirements skills
• Demonstrated ability to write actionable Jira epics and user stories.
• Clear written and verbal communication, sound organization, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a time-sensitive effort.
• A user-centered, evidence-based approach to evaluating product choices and balancing near-term MVP scope with longer-term needs.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Supply chain, retail, food distribution, vendor portals, order management, invoicing, shipment/ASN processing, or delivery reconciliation.
• Building prototypes or MVPs to evaluate product direction, platform fit, or user experience.

Additional Skills (HBTT Framework for Product Management
Human

• Supports research activities to gain deep customer understanding and empathy
• Partners with Design and Research to craft/refine customer learnings (i.e. Journey Maps, Blueprints, etc.) and shares knowledge w/ broader team.
• Creates and translates experience hypothesis into tests and executes to gather qualitative and quantitative learnings
• Partners with others to run rapid experiments
• Reviews all forms of voice of customers and helps turn insights into product recommendations

Business

• Understands business model/strategy and develops analytics skills to supports its execution
• Collects and helps analyzes data needed for decisions with others
• Crafts business cases with guidance
• Creates and translates analytical hypothesis into tests and executes to gather qualitative and quantitative data
• Solves problems efficiently & escalates to help deliver business outcomes
• Understands upstream and downstream experience connections

Technology

• Embodies a strong technical understanding of existing product architecture, systems and tech debt
• Provides product ownership by clearly articulating the goals and requirements for an agile team
• Leads sprint planning, writes and accepts stories, and pushes for quality delivery

Transformation

• Understands and supports the product vision
• Demonstrates awareness of big picture thinking
• Partners with Design, Tech and cross-functional teams to execute
• Plays a contributor role in Product/Design reviews
• Engages and communicates well with range of stakeholders and teams
• Seeks feedback to drive right business outcomes
• Builds relationships across the organization to help connect dots across multiple perspectives

What You Will Be Doing
25% Strategy & Planning

• Gains a thorough understanding of customer and associate needs, both existing and potential, and uses that knowledge to help deliver enterprise products that provide customers with an unparalleled shopping experience
• Support translation of 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
• Help determine and track goals, metrics, and analytics to determine product value; continually making recommendations and refinements to the product backlog based on learnings
• Monitor and analyze customer behavior via qualitative and quantitative feedback to drive roadmap.
• Manages & grooms product backlog; makes future decisions based on the value that will be delivered
• Evaluate competitive landscape to help influence product decisions and ensure that products remain or become best in class
• Evaluates research and market analysis on industry innovations and technology platforms to recommend the best possible solution

50% Delivery & Execution

• Works with user research and testing team to formulate, test and refine assumptions and hypotheses through user research and testing
• Creates, prioritizes and accepts user stories; incorporate them into release planning ; Makes product decisions that drive value on a daily basis
• Identifies pros, cons, issues, obstacles, dependencies & value associated with features & enhancements
• Participates in or leads standups, iteration planning sessions, product demos and retrospectives
• Condenses complex technical concepts into non-technical language for stakeholders

15% Team & Stakeholder

• Fosters collaboration with team members (Engineering, User Experience Designers, etc.) to drive value and collectively identify and resolve impediments
• Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by empathizing with and understanding user needs and becoming the domain expert
• Manages cross functional team and stakeholder expectations to execute on product strategy; provides education to requestors to determine prioritization based on tangible benefits and/or user experience
• Exhibit active listening, facilitate sessions, and clearly communicate at all levels (Executive Leadership Team, store associates, etc.) and in all formats the product’s long term strategy which is used to prioritize short-term action