Product Manager - FlexPod

Your Impact
The Product Manager owns the vision and strategy, roadmap, and feature definition for individual products within a product group. Responsibilities include writing stories to define outcomes and product requirements as well as planning and managing product features through the product development process. This role manages the product backlog while prioritizing work and making product-related decisions based on the needs and expectations of customers and stakeholders. Finally, this role will focus on identifying key gaps in product features, capturing product requirements, and defining outcomes or objectives and key results (OKRs).
The Flex Pods team is a dynamic, tech-for-tech group that accelerates delivery for Lowe's Technology teams by addressing high-priority challenges across various cross-functional teams. When faced with competing tasks or limited resources, technology teams can collaborate with Flex Pods to accelerate delivery. Composed of adaptable problem-solvers, the Flex Pods team excels in strategic efforts that don't require deep domain expertise, seamlessly navigating various projects and connecting insights across the tech ecosystem and independently developing solutions on behalf of the owning team for ongoing maintenance and enhancement.
The Product Manager will lead discovery, requirements and milestones definition, and manage documentation and communication, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and visibility at all leadership levels. In this domain agnostic team, success in this role will rely on strong product management fundamentals, an agile mindset, and key soft skills like navigating team dynamics, managing relationships through influence, and driving product success in a fast-paced environment. Flex Pods team members must be proactive, action-oriented, autonomous, and adaptable.
What you will do
• Builds OKRs for product scope to support product portfolio and organizational OKRs and drives alignment with business partners.• Owns customer/user journey for a given product/feature level. Makes decisions that impact user experience on feature usability with engineering.• Defines and measures customer success metrics to ensure the product scope supports the overall product OKRs.• Articulates how product features relate to the product vision and builds a roadmap for all partners.• Leads agile ceremonies and works with the team to provide clarity of expectations. Aligns necessary workstreams from team members to achieve the value of their product.• Prioritizes and ensures the delivery, support, and execution of a high-quality product.• Works with other product managers and business leaders to understand trade-offs and prioritization of features based on overall product vision. Influences feature design trade-offs to drive critical/mass adoption.• Works with product leadership and provides input for engineering priorities of their defined product space.• Participates in product marketing and uses it to drive deep understanding of the product they own with peers and leaders.• Drives product plans for their defined product space and leverages data to help drive alignment.• Defines objectives (functional and technical) and data required for analytics needed either independently or in conjunction with business partners for their product. Defines key metrics of the product and consistently monitors the health of the product and business impact.• Partners with engineering teams to build tracking/monitoring systems needed to get to the data.
Required Qualifications: • 2 years of experience in two or more of the following: project management, product management, business analysis, program management, experimentation, or product marketing• 1 year of experience in product and/or experience management• Experience in an agile software environment with strong writing ability• Experience working cross-functionally in a large organization• Experience working closely with senior leadership• Experience translating data into quantifiable actions/deliverables• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, engineering, communications, or related field (or equivalent work experience in lieu of degree)
Preferred Qualifications: • Certified Scrum Product Owner• Master's degree in business administration or similar advanced degree
About Lowe's
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2023 sales of more than $86 billion, Lowe's operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
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