Sr Product Manager – Orange Apron Media – Upstream Systems
| Company | The Home Depot |
|---|---|
| Location | Georgia, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
Requirements
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
- 3-6 years of relevant work experience
- 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.
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
Preferred Qualifications
- 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 working in a fast paced, fluid environment where priorities shift on a regular basis
- 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, prioritizing and accepting user stories
- Proficiency in conducting 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