This role is accountable for ensuring that vendor platforms are strategically selected, effectively integrated, and continuously evolved to meet the unique needs of our brands. The Director translates enterprise financial, inventory, and customer OKRs into measurable product capability plans, aligns cross functional teams and external partners around high impact problems, and ensures that pricing and allocation capabilities drive improved sell through, margin, inventory productivity, and store level execution.
The Director operates as the accountable owner for capability and business performance—not just vendor delivery or roadmap intake—and is expected to bring strategic clarity, prioritization discipline, and measurable outcomes to complex, vendor enabled ecosystems.What You'll Do
- Define the multi‑year product strategy for pricing and inventory optimization, with a strong emphasis on promotions, markdowns, store‑level allocation, replenishment, and in‑season decisioning powered by SaaS platforms
- Own the vendor‑enabled product ecosystem, including evaluation, selection, onboarding, and ongoing partnership management with pricing and inventory optimization SaaS providers
- Translate business needs into clear product requirements for vendors, influencing solution roadmaps while ensuring configurations, integrations, and workflows meet enterprise and store‑level needs
- Establish clear capability KPIs such as gross margin, sell‑through, weeks of supply, store in‑stock rates, markdown efficiency, and inventory turn, and ensure these metrics guide prioritization across internal teams and vendors
- Lead and develop Product Managers within the Pricing & Allocation domain, setting expectations for stage gating rigor, roadmap sequencing, vendor accountability, and measurable commercial impact
- Drive team alignment across Product To Market to ensure pricing and allocation solutions support centralized strategy and localized store execution.
- Partner closely with Engineering, Data, and Integration teams to ensure SaaS platforms are effectively connected to upstream and downstream systems (forecasting, merchandising, POS, supply chain)
- Represent Pricing & Allocation product strategy and performance in executive forums, clearly articulating vendor tradeoffs, implementation risks, dependency management, and required investments to scale store‑level optimization
- 8+ years of product management experience, with significant ownership of pricing or allocation capabilities in a retail environment
- Demonstrated experience working with and influencing SaaS vendors, including contract‑adjacent decisioning, roadmap negotiation, implementation oversight, and ongoing performance management
- Proven ability to lead product teams and influence cross‑functional partners
- Highly skilled at connecting vendor‑enabled capabilities to measurable business outcomes, holding both internal teams and external partners accountable for performance
- Comfortable operating in complex, highly integrated environments where success depends on balancing speed, scalability, and long‑term platform evolution
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What We Do
In 1969, Don and Doris Fisher opened the first Gap store on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco. They wanted to make it easier to find a great pair of jeans, and they did. Their denim and records store was a hit, and it grew to become one of the world’s most iconic brands. Today we’re represented in more than 1400 stores in over 40 countries, and online. We have headquarters in New York, London, Shanghai, Tokyo, and, of course, San Francisco. Our unique aesthetic is optimistic cool, elevated American style. Our clothes are crafted with care, with focused attention to thoughtful design. We believe in staying true to our heritage while creating what’s next. Don and Doris Fisher always wanted to “do more than sell clothes.” They wanted to support the people who ran their company, to be active in their communities, and to have a positive impact on the world. Their vision helped transform retail, and we’re still following their lead. We stand for freedom and possibility for all; we champion diverse ideas that transcend generations, geographies and genders.
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