Director, Product Ownership

As a Director, Product Ownership, you will serve as a strategic product leader within Manhattan Associates' R&D organization. You will drive the vision, innovation, and roadmap for key enterprise supply chain applications, such as Transportation Management, Transportation Modeling and Transportation Procurement. Bridging the gap between high-level business strategy and technical execution, you will lead the definition of product features, business architecture, and user experience. Acting as a primary authority on product capabilities, you will guide cross-functional teams of software engineers, quality assurance engineers, and UX designers to deliver scalable, customer-centric solutions. What You Will Own • Product Strategy & Roadmap: Drive product innovation for multiple platform solutions, aligning feature development with overarching business goals, customer needs, and market trends. • Requirement Definition & Backlog Management: Develop detailed business requirements, translating complex use cases into actionable Epics and user stories. Define clear problem statements, target personas, performance expectations, and data volume constraints. • Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner closely with Software Engineering, Architecture, and UX Design teams. Drive consistency across UX/UI elements, including data types, accessibility, error messaging, and overall workflow design. • Stakeholder Collaboration: Facilitate sprint demos, gather actionable feedback from senior leadership, and engage directly with clients during testing and implementation phases (e.g., resolving gap lists, validating orchestrations) to ensure optimal processes. • (Not All Director Roles) Team Development & Mentorship: Build, coach, and manage a high-performing team of Principal and Senior Product Owners, fostering a culture of strategic thinking, strong business acumen, and continuous improvement. • Product Evangelism: Develop product matrices, documentation, and agent demo scripts for marketing, customer enablement, and industry analyst evaluations (e.g., Gartner MQ submissions). What You Will Need • Experience: 7+ years of experience in product management, business analysis, software design, or supply chain software implementation. Deep domain expertise in areas such as Transportation Management, Supply Chain, and Logistics. • (Not All Director Roles) Leadership Skills: Proven ability to manage and mentor cross-functional teams, driving results through communication, influence, and collaboration. • Technical & Business Acumen: Strong understanding of software design frameworks, cloud platforms, and modern architectural concepts (e.g., Composite APIs). • Strategic Thinking: Expert ability to identify core problems, troubleshoot complex situations, and design innovative business architectures for new release features. • Communication: Excellent client relationship skills with the ability to articulate complex concepts to both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders, including executive leadership. • Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or a related field (Master's degree preferred).