· Experience with mobile application projects from the IT side - Ideally retail experience
· Not a stranger to AI · React Native experience - enough to contribute informed perspective to the platform decision · Budget, vendor-spend, and financial tracking experience - Strong project/program management skills
o Deeply organized - Ability to come up with a detailed plan with milestones
- Someone who can proactively work with other groups to understand their tasks and drive them to completion
- Someone who is not just an order taker, but someone who will question and push back if they think things could be done differently
· Someone who can present status at an executive level – likely up to CIO, maybe higher · Senior-level PM/program management capability appropriate for a highly visible initiative. · Exceptional communication skills and ability to operate effectively with senior/executive leadership, including CIO-level conversations and potentially CEO-level preparation/interactions. · Proactive leadership: not an order taker; able to independently identify gaps, make recommendations and drive work forward. · Strong technical-program fluency: understands when API/integration, security, UI, testing, backend/data and test-data considerations enter the lifecycle. Coding ability is not required. · Cross-functional coordination: capable of driving dependencies among engineering/API, integrations, security, architecture, technical leadership, vendors and business stakeholders. · Hands-on project management: personally develops project plans, milestones and associated detailed PM work rather than delegating it to an analyst. · Ability to enter a very early-stage program and help drive vendor selection, planning and design/architecture coordination. | 
