Principal Product Manager
Description
Designs, develops, and manages activities for a specific product or group of products from product definition and planning through production, release and end of life.
Serves as the central resource with design, process, manufacturing, test, quality, and marketing as the product(s) move to production and distribution.
Involvement lasts throughout all stages of a product’s lifecycle including modification, upgrades, and maintenance of the product or product line.
Responsibilities :
- Leads the build-out of new applications.
- Articulates and mentors junior team members on application of Product Management concepts, practices, and methodologies.
- Owns the translation of business intent, customer needs, and / or technical direction into clear, concise, well-documented business requirements or product backlog for one or more complex applications (or a product family) spanning one or more technical domains.
- Bridges conversations between business users and development teams using knowledge of complex business processes and technical integration spanning one or more business domains.
- Develops longer-term (12 months or more) product roadmap, ensuring product development plans align with and support stakeholder business and application objectives.
- Identifies, describes, and continually evaluates end user personas, target users and / or user journeys and aligns solution delivery to their business and quality needs.
- Partners with business to develop business case for new or existing solutions with supporting documentation, gain stakeholder support and approval, and acquire necessary resources.
- Monitors industry trends, stakeholder satisfaction, usage trends, and related metrics to identify product / process improvement opportunities.
- Influences strategic thinking across the organization, ensuring cross-functional and cross-product collaboration and integration.
- Designs, segments, and recruits for user testing, A / B testing, interviews, and user surveys and synthesizes outputs to create actionable insights and drive product improvements.
- Influences product positioning and marketing communications from a business and user perspective.
- Provides inputs to financial models (i.e. TCO, ROI) for new candidate initiatives; assists budget owners in translating to quarterly forecasts.
- Supports management of budget and reports on actual capex and expense.
- Provides inputs to business cases supporting initiatives and the technology supporting them.
Skills :
- Advanced knowledge of and experience with custom and packaged / SaaS software design tools and development methodologies and ability to mentor junior team members.
- Working knowledge of complex technical and integration architecture patterns.
- Advanced knowledge of application deployment and support processes and tools.
- Advanced knowledge of standard software testing and bug reporting tools and techniques.
- Advanced knowledge of requirements or backlog management software.
- Advanced knowledge of product analytics tools, tagging approaches, and accurately interpreting metrics.
- Experience developing, publishing, and achieving product roadmaps.
- Knowledge of designing, segmenting, and recruiting for user testing, A / B testing, interviews, and user surveys and supporting tools.
- Experience synthesizing user testing outputs to create actionable insights.
- Awareness of approaches to scale products into the millions of concurrent users and / or transactions.
- Conveys and / or consults on issues of moderate to significant complexity.
- Regularly interacts with colleagues or customers up to the senior leadership level.
- Able to effectively present technical information and tell impactful user stories and respond to questions in both one-on-one situations and group meetings.
- Possesses clear understanding of WFM’s and supported region / stores business objectives, competitive strengths and opportunities.
- Understands and articulates complex business processes, user journeys, and technical integration spanning multiple business domains.
- Formulates, values and articulates business and financial requirements.
- Able to define and analyze the measures needed for business success.
- Able to play a key and influential role working with others, in groups, in cross-functional settings and with diverse stakeholders internally and externally.
- Advanced knowledge of software engineering practices; advanced experience with developing software products and technologies.
- Advanced ability to fully specify product requirements and use cases.
- Able to integrate customer, partner and technical / utilization feedback and performance metrics into product design, development and application.
- Advanced knowledge of software engineering practices; advanced experience with developing software products and technologies.
Education & Experience :
BA / BS degree and 6-8 years’ relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
At Whole Foods Market, we provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all Team Members and candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, age, marital status, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic.
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