Boca Raton, FL
Lead Product Manager
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Transform complex concepts or ideas into executable plans and relay them to the organization's senior leadership.
- Work with agile development teams to execute sprint goals.
- Manage prioritization of defects and work with teams to ensure proper resourcing and scheduling to resolve them.
- Protect the team from internal and external factors that distract from sprint goals.
- Analyze customers' needs & behaviors as well as review competition and emerging technologies to develop insights that can be used to guide the strategy and the product roadmap.
- Conduct project discovery by interviewing key stakeholders to flush out business rules and operational specifications.
- Liaise between business owners, tech teams, internal and external partners to meet customer needs while ensuring that the strategy & vision of the product are met and aligned to Office Depot's goals and tenets.
- Define and monitor key performance indicators. Continuously evaluate the product's performance and growth.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Development, related technical field, or the equivalent in work experience
- 5-7 years of experience in business systems and web application analysis in retail eCommerce, B2B, B2C, internet direct marketing or e-Procurement environments
- Clearly articulate and describe the product features to developers, QA, and UX/UI designers and researchers in our agile teams as well as different business partners, comfortably pivoting between business, operations, and technology teams
- Review and provide feedback on functional and technical design documents
- Participate and influence agile ceremonies including planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, team retrospectives, and daily scrum
- Superior analytical skills; Must be analytically capable of refining strategic, technical roadmaps, synthesizing to make improvements and recommendations
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; Regularly required to make presentations to stakeholders
- Clearly present, articulate, defend research findings, design decisions, and formulated strategies to the stakeholders in a way that they can relate to and easily understand
- Ability to facilitate smooth collaboration and relations necessary to be successful in this role; Not troubled by complications, disagreements, and unnecessary delays
- Effective presentation skills and exceptional relationship-building skills are required
- Knowledge of various eCommerce and Internet technologies is preferred
- Familiarity with cloud architecture and design (Azure preferred)
Recommended Skills
- Agile Methodology
- Analytical
- Architecture
- Business Systems
- Communication
- Customer Demand Planning
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