Required Skills & Experience
- Managing team, experience of working with stakeholders, and providing leadership
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Technology or related field preferred or equivalent years of experience – a good product owner experience is most important. Backend business user. People who do the buying, orders, pricing team but working with Ari’s group; in developers.
- 3-6 years of software product management experience, including Agile delivery. They don’t take a budget and run with it, they have to understand the end to end – need to understand how data flows in the system.
- Familiarity with analysis and backlog management tools such as Visio, Teams, Jira, and Confluence.
- Experience working within the Project Management Lifecycle or System Development Lifecycle (SDLC). How users use it and explain data and explain to stakeholders and developers.
- Proficiency in Agile techniques, Scrum practices, and Agile product management.
- Agile / Scrum experience
- Product ownership or product management experience
- Requirements gathering
- User story writing
- Backlog management
- Jira & Confluence
- SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)
- Working with developers and business stakeholders
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
Background in retail Merchandising PIM master data management, and EDI preferred
Job Description
They are building a custom merchandising system equivalent to oracle retail merch system. But they use Blue Yonder and master data management. Ongoing projects that they don’t have a lead or product owner
- Item master: staying project on item groupings (items that get put on promotions, etc)
- Item master and communicating with folks that maintain items that use it (website, pricing team) a big portion of backend system
- Pricing team – maintaining pricing functionality and maintain some of the discounts to store registers. Ordering approvals etc. Acting as a bridge between the business and development team Working closely with the stakeholders, developers, QA teams, designers and operational teams to make sure new technology solutions are delivered successfully.
- Gather Business Requirements
- Meet with merchandising, supply chain, and operations teams.
- Understand their problems and process pain points.
- Identify opportunities to improve workflows and user experience.
- Write User Stories & Manage Backlog
- Turn business needs into detailed requirements.
- Create user stories and acceptance criteria in Jira.
- Prioritize what gets built first.
- Work with Agile Development Teams
- Participate in sprint planning.
- Clarify requirements for developers.
- Answer questions during development.
- Ensure products are delivered on time.
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Track feature progress.
- Assist with testing.
- Coordinate product launches and rollouts.
- Monitor for risks and delays.
- Stakeholder Communication
- Provide project updates.
- Lead product demos.
- Collect feedback from users.
- Adjust priorities based on business needs.