Michaels Stores

Staff Product Manager

Michaels Stores$100K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in computer science or Business
  • 6-7 years of product management experience in related industries, digital/e-commerce preferred
  • Fluency in Atlassian products like JIRA and Confluence
  • Proven ability to build and establish agile digital product practices
  • Exceptional communication skills suited for engagement with VP/C-level executives

Responsibilities

  • Create metrics to measure customer insights
  • Develop a global product domain strategy at the project level
  • Plan product launches with consideration of tech roadmaps and customer reactions
  • Drive product lifecycle from requirements to post-launch evaluations
  • Lead data analysis for their domain and assess global impact of strategies

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead cross-functional teams
  • Engagement in continuous improvement processes
  • Access to develop strategic relationships across the organization
  • An environment promoting innovation and product excellence
Full Job Description
Support Center - Irving

The Staff Product Manager is a high-performing, experienced individual contributor with strong organizational savvy, interpersonal and negotiation skills that can provide strong leadership, product planning and product vision that delivers against the company's OKR/KPI. The Staff Product Manager leads development of a product domain strategy, with strategic planning for product domain portfolio inclusive of dependencies from other teams.

Major Activities

How you use Technology to help our Customers...
  • Create new metrics to measure customer insights, as needed
  • Form a holistic and global understanding of the end-to-end customer experience based on a synthesis from multiple sources
  • Propose and evaluate product changes in other domains based on a holistic understanding of the end-to-end customer experience
  • Push for solutions that test the boundaries of industry trends and anticipate customer needs
  • Set priorities for multiple projects
  • Ensure front-end product design is successful
  • Ability to write scripts for demos and demonstrate onstage product features
  • Identify patterns in complex datasets and develops practical modes


How you'll make an impact...
  • Develop a global product domain strategy (project level)
  • Plan product launches considering the overall Michaels product/tech roadmaps, retail industry, calendar anticipated customer reactions, etc.
  • Drive product lifecycle from requirement definitions, research, UX/UI designs, establishing KPIs, technical specs, and development, to launch activities and post-launch metrics analysis and iterations.
  • Create opportunity assessments and global ROI calculations for proposed strategies in their domain
  • Identify corner cases astutely
  • Steer technical designs toward architectural patterns and high reliability
  • Understand and manage risks and dependencies
  • Deliver high-quality products with upfront risk assessments and mitigation strategies
  • Lead data analysis for their domain
  • Evaluate global impact by creating a hypothesis, executing tests, and analyzing results


Who you'll be working with...
  • Collaborate with product development and engineering team leads and engineering to consistently manage multiple products to planned milestones with high quality
  • Actively track key milestones across multiple programs and maintain accountability for cross-functional teams
  • Collaborate across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals
  • Work collaboratively with Business Team and manage expectations of scope and requirements


How you'll lead and influence others...
  • Drives adoption of best practices across the organization.
  • Champion change agent for continous improvement
  • Ability to lead and build customer engagements and relationships
  • Resolve cross-organizational conflict without escalation.


Other duties as assigned

Minimum Education
  • Bachelor's Degree in computer science or Business


Minimum Special Certifications or Technical Skills
  • Experience in taking a product from ideation to execution and successful delivery.
  • Demonstrated ability to build out and establish an agile digital product practice in collaboration with UX and Engineering
  • Fluent in navigating Atlassian products, such as JIRA for ticket workflow and Confluence for documentation and requirements gathering, etc.
  • Excellent technical skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including an engaging presentation style
  • Experience in communication to VP and C+ level: Tech, Business, Finance/Corp


Minimum Type of Experience the Job Requires
  • 6-7 years of product management experience in a related industry (digital / e-commerce is preferred)


Other
  • Exceptional customer service, listening, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills
  • Have a solid understanding of how core technologies are utilized in their product domain and are fluent in the pros and cons of technical alternatives


Applicants in the U.S. must satisfy federal, state, and local legal requirements of the job.

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