Senior Manager, Digital Product Manager
The Judge Group Inc.

Location: Irving, TX
Salary: $165,000.00 USD Annually - $170,000.00 USD Annually
Description: Our client is currently seeking a Senior Manager, Digital Product Manager

This position is onsite in Irving, TX - MUST be local

Direct hire

Must have skills in the following:

• Managed multiple product managers
• People management
• Leader/Owner
• Hands on... roll up sleeves not just a manager
• A lot of experience building apps, io,s and android
• Experience with the entirety of apps
• Activity measuring everything within the app

Day to day:

30% Strategy & Planning

• Looks across product teams and feature sets with a focus on alignment and dependencies
• Gains a thorough understanding of customer and associate needs, both existing and potential, and uses that knowledge to help deliver enterprise products that provide 7-Eleven customers and associates with an unparalleled shopping experience
• Translates business goals and end user needs into product strategy and clearly communicates direction and product priorities to the product team and business partners
• Meets with users and stakeholders as needed to understand processes, pain points and system waste in order to identify where to improve the user experience
• Creates epics to drive improvements to product vision, features and back end systems, and adjusts for new business models
• Determines value to the business of anticipated product updates
• Identifies goals, metrics and appropriate analytics to measure the performance of products and continually makes recommendations and refinements to products based on learnings.

40% Delivery & Execution

• Reviews recommended solutions and work of product team to ensure products are aligned with company, stakeholder and end user priorities
• Removes roadblocks and obstacles that may impair product teams to help ensure delivery of the product in order to meet strategic, financial and technical goals
• Receives and prioritizes incoming requests from business partners and stakeholders while keeping in mind the business strategy, product vision and user needs
• Establishes OKRs, defines learning agenda and key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure success/failure.
• Provides regular updates to leadership regarding progress of products.

30% Team & Stakeholder

• Provides leadership, mentoring and coaching to Product Managers
• Attracts, retains and develops top talent to build a world class Product Management Team
• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback
• Fosters collaboration with team members (Engineering, UX, etc.) to drive value and identify and resolve impediments
• Acts as a proponent of modern agile 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 agile design and development core practices (communities of practice).

Qualifications:

• Bachelors/4 Yr Degree
• YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE: 4+ years
• YEARS OF MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE: 4+ years

SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• MBA or Masters degree
• 4-5 years of experience translating business strategy and analysis into consumer facing digital products
• Minimum 6 years of experience in digital product management
• Minimum 3 years of experience in digital eCommerce.

Contact: kmearkle@judge.com

This job and many more are available through The Judge Group. Find us on the web at www.judge.com

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