Location: Cincinnati, OH
Description: Our client is currently seeking a Technical Product Manager

Title: Technical Product manager

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Remote

Although this is a remote position. Client expects the candidate to come onsite for meetings once in a while in Cincinnati OH

Job Description

Client aims to provide a complete set of reusable software patterns, frameworks, and automation tools that development teams can easily adopt to overcome common roadblocks. Teams plug in the platform's proven "building blocks" and use common services to create automated build pipelines and immediately see benefits in increased efficiency and product quality. CLIENT'S provisions and administers the common tools underlying building blocks - source control systems like GitHub, continuous integration and delivery tools, etc. CLIENT'S publishes a updates to provide technologists insight into the tool evaluation and adoption roadmap so the entire organization can make better informed decisions.

Description:

The Technical Product Manager (TPM) primarily owns and drives platform products through vision, design, requirements, and delivery. This includes driving the strategy for platform domains, setting objectives and key results (OKRs), and ensuring their successful completion. The TPM will facilitate a larger cross-functional team to solve business problems. The TPM should be able to work with significant autonomy and freedom, requiring little oversight, but within a broader strategy set by executive leadership. The TPM will demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

There are 5 technology 'Tracks' defined for CLIENT. Each TPM is responsible for a Track. The Tracks are:
• Development - All tools and processes developers use to develop, test, and deploy applications.
• Platform - Tools and processes where applications run (e.g., cloud, on-prem).
• Operations & Support - Tools and processes used to ensure an application is running effectively (e.g., logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting).
• Data Management - Tools and process used in data storage and movement (e.g., DBMS, caching, queues).
• Native Mobile - Tools and processes needed to develop, deploy, and support applications written for Android or iOS.

This position will focus on the Development Track.

Minimum Position Qualifications:
• 5+ years of agile product management or new product development (NPD) experience in a digital/eCommerce company with demonstrated success delivering new products, platforms, and experiences to markets
• Exceptional communication, organization, and analytical skills
• Experience leading and managing a team with direct and indirect reports
• Demonstrated experience creating and using strategy to solve complex problems that span across multiple divisions and groups within company
• Ability to identify metrics and key performance measures and use data to drive decisions which enhance the customer experience

Desired Previous Job Experience:
• 3+ years product management experience at a retailer or digital platform company
• Proven track record of conceiving and building platforms
• Experience with OKRs and iterative product development (Agile)
• Experience using GitHub, Atlassian, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud products
• Since this TPM will be working directly with development teams, a background in software development is advantageous.

Key Responsibilities
• Create, maintain and communicate client's product vision, strategy and roadmaps; including near-term delivery and long-term CLIENT'S product evolution
• Develop strategic product plan and deliver breakthrough CLIENT'S capabilities by working with technical and non-technical partners; measure output, improve execution, and continuously deliver 10X value creation
• Define CLIENT'S product strategy, features and criteria for evaluating vendors/partners to make ongoing buy-build-partner-acquire decisions
• Create highly collaborative cross-functional partnerships across the client's departments, Alt Profits, Merchandising, Manufacturing, Retail Operations, Supply Chain, Health & Wellness, Marketing, and Finance
• Identify opportunities to create best-in-class platform capabilities by leveraging customer/developer feedback, monitoring/analytics, and team know-how/ know-why in order to connect company strengths with available resources
• Model Agile principles to increase speed and frequency of CLIENT'S product delivery by maintaining and communicating groomed backlog, providing 1-N prioritization for backlog and set criteria for Minimum Viable Product
• Provide leadership direction to direct and/or matrixed core team members, incorporating feedback from across all functions, product leadership, and company's senior leadership
• Travel to work locations to attend company meetings

Contact: [email protected]

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