Major Activities
How you use Technology to help our Customers...
- Create new metrics to measure customer insights, as needed
- Form a holistic and global understanding of the end-to-end customer experience based on a synthesis from multiple sources
- Propose and evaluate product changes in other domains based on a holistic understanding of the end-to-end customer experience
- Push for solutions that test the boundaries of industry trends and anticipate customer needs
- Set priorities for multiple projects
- Ensure front-end product design is successful
- Ability to write scripts for demos and demonstrate onstage product features
- Identify patterns in complex datasets and develops practical modes
How you'll make an impact...
- Develop a global product domain strategy (project level)
- Plan product launches considering the overall Michaels product/tech roadmaps, retail industry, calendar anticipated customer reactions, etc.
- Drive product lifecycle from requirement definitions, research, UX/UI designs, establishing KPIs, technical specs, and development, to launch activities and post-launch metrics analysis and iterations.
- Create opportunity assessments and global ROI calculations for proposed strategies in their domain
- Identify corner cases astutely
- Steer technical designs toward architectural patterns and high reliability
- Understand and manage risks and dependencies
- Deliver high-quality products with upfront risk assessments and mitigation strategies
- Lead data analysis for their domain
- Evaluate global impact by creating a hypothesis, executing tests, and analyzing results
Who you'll be working with...
- Collaborate with product development and engineering team leads and engineering to consistently manage multiple products to planned milestones with high quality
- Actively track key milestones across multiple programs and maintain accountability for cross-functional teams
- Collaborate across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals
- Work collaboratively with Business Team and manage expectations of scope and requirements
How you'll lead and influence others...
- Drives adoption of best practices across the organization.
- Champion change agent for continous improvement
- Ability to lead and build customer engagements and relationships
- Resolve cross-organizational conflict without escalation.
Other duties as assigned
Minimum Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or Business
Minimum Special Certifications or Technical Skills
- Experience in taking a product from ideation to execution and successful delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to build out and establish an agile digital product practice in collaboration with UX and Engineering
- Fluent in navigating Atlassian products, such as JIRA for ticket workflow and Confluence for documentation and requirements gathering, etc.
- Excellent technical skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including an engaging presentation style
- Experience in communication to VP and C+ level: Tech, Business, Finance/Corp
Minimum Type of Experience the Job Requires
- 6-7 years of product management experience in a related industry (digital / e-commerce is preferred)
Other
- Exceptional customer service, listening, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
- Have a solid understanding of how core technologies are utilized in their product domain and are fluent in the pros and cons of technical alternatives
Applicants in the U.S. must satisfy federal, state, and local legal requirements of the job.
At The Michaels Companies Inc., our purpose is to fuel the joy of creativity and celebration. As the leading destination for creating and celebrating in North America, we operate over 1,300 stores in 49 states and Canada and online at Michaels.com and Michaels.ca. The Michaels Companies, Inc. also owns Artistree, a manufacturer of custom and specialty framing merchandise. Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Irving, Texas, Michaels is the best place for all things creative. For more information, please visit www.michaels.com.
Michaels offers a range of benefits to support team members and their families. Depending on position and eligibility, team members may have access to a 401(k) with employer match, an Employee Assistance Program, medical, dental, and vision coverage, telemedicine services, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, tuition assistance, adoption assistance, and various voluntary insurance options. All team members enjoy everyday perks such as employee discounts and access to partner discount programs. For a summary of benefits, visit the Michaels Benefits at a Glance page. For additional information regarding benefits, visit MIKBenefits.com
Michaels is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are here for all Team Members and all customers to create, innovate and be better together.
Michaels is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with this commitment, Michaels will assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. Accordingly, if a reasonable accommodation is required to fully participate in the job application or interview process, to perform the essential functions of the job, and/or to receive all other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Customer Care at 1-800-642-4235 (1800-MICHAEL).
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or business
- Experience taking a product from ideation through execution and successful delivery
- Experience establishing an agile digital product practice in collaboration with UX and engineering
- Fluency with Atlassian products, including JIRA and Confluence
- Excellent technical skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including engaging presentation skills
- Experience communicating with VP- and C-level technology, business, and finance stakeholders
- Six to seven years of product management experience in a related industry
- Digital or e-commerce industry experience
- Exceptional customer service, listening, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
- Strong understanding of core technologies and technical alternatives within the product domain
Michaels Stores Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Michaels Stores and has not been reviewed or approved by Michaels Stores.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical, dental, and vision options are available alongside virtual care and an Employee Assistance Program. Basic life and AD&D are provided for full-time team members, with optional disability coverage.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with company matching supports savings for retirement. Eligibility begins after a short tenure period.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Team members receive broad merchandise and custom framing discounts plus partner savings on fitness, travel, and services. Programs such as Michaels CARES and tuition assistance add wellbeing and development support.
Michaels Stores Insights
What We Do
The Michaels Companies, Inc. is North America's largest specialty provider of arts, crafts, framing, floral, wall décor, and seasonal merchandise for Makers and do-it-yourself home decorators. The Company owns and operates more than 1,200 stores in 49 states and Canada. Additionally, the Company serves customers through Michaels.com, consumercrafts.com and aaronbrothers.com. The Michaels Companies, Inc., also owns Artistree, a manufacturer of high quality custom and specialty framing merchandise, and Darice, a premier wholesale distributor in the craft, gift and decor industry.
