Position: Lead Product Manager, Data & Analytics
Location: San Jose, CA: 1980 Zanker Rd, San Jose, CA 95112
San Francisco, CA: 100 North Point, San Francisco, CA 94133
Sacramento Area, CA: 3750 Atherton Rd, Rocklin, CA 9576
Duration: 12+ Months
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Project Description:
- The Data & Analytics domain touches 10-20 initiatives at any given time there is a data component to all projects across IT. There are two product managers in the D&A domain, one (FTE) focuses on B2B, marketing systems, stores, and the other person (this open role) will focus on OMS, transportation, logistics.
- The D&A product manager will partner closely with the domain aligned product managers and data engineering teams for D&A specific requests at times, the power users as well.
- D&A domain is divided into two sections: analytics/data ingestion and reporting. Focus here is analytics/data ingestion (the more technical side).
Responbility:
You will be part of the Supply Chain Product Management team responsible for delivering strategic solutions to drive value to our business partners and WSI. Our job is to ensure that we deliver quality IT initiatives that exceed the expectations of our customers and provide a return on our technology investment.
In this role, you will consult and work with the business stakeholders, project managers, architects, development teams, and others to gather and define, then develop and document client requirements as both functional specifications then translate them to technical requirements to ensure successful deployment of deliverables. Our ideal candidate has a technical understanding of systems and applications.
- Serves as a liaison between the business community and the IT organization to provide product and user experience solutions to meet the business needs
- Develops high level business requirements and translates them into functional specifications for the IT organization and manages changes to such specifications.
- Possesses broad knowledge of technical design specifications and works with technology peers to help develop solutions
- Negotiates agreements and commitments by facilitating communication between the business and IT from initial requirements to final implementation
- Possess and may share subject-matter expertise or in-depth technical knowledge, uses expertise to further development of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways
- May provide tactical work direction to team members
- Excellent knowledge of product management best practices, functional design and application delivery methodology
- Customer focused with high quality standards, must possess strong presentation skills
- Possesses solid knowledge of project management methodology
- Demonstrates excellent interpersonal, business communication and writing skills
- Works on complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors
- Exercises strong judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
- Networks with key contacts outside own area of expertise
- Strong decision-making capabilities will have an impact on the success of short-term group or division operational goals
- Frequently interacts with customers, and/or functional peer group IC'S/managers, normally involving matters between functional areas or internal customers
- May interact with business leadership at all levels
- May lead a cooperative effort among members of a project team
Top Requirements
- 5+ years of Product Management experience in a technology organization
- Industry experience when working with a lot of data retail industry, insurance industry, healthcare data
- Ideally has supply chain functions such as order management, transportation, warehouse management, etc.
- Project experience around data and analytics plus passionate about data
- Understanding of the ETL process
- Ability to run SQLs (read-only) without any assistance
- Should be hands on/write complex SQL queries to join multiple tables
- Able to differentiate between rules-based analytics and AI/ML-based analytics.
- Working within a data platform team doing analytics, or other quantitative role.
- Experience with visualization tools including PowerBi, Micro Strategy
- Strong experience with SQL
- Able to write complex queries, join tables, expand columns
Additional Qualifications
- You identify as a product person and are passionate about building great customer experiences.
- You are well-versed in the evolution and emerging trends of digital shopping experiences
- You have a proven ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, manage tradeoffs and evaluate new ideas with partners across the organization.
- You have good communication skills
- You have a point-of-view about how technology teams should engage to iteratively deliver value for the customer (ideally with Agile methodologies).
- You have strong analytical abilities and interest to use data and metrics to back up recommendations, prioritization, and drive actions.
- You have a strong drive towards execution; you're a can-do type of person and willing to roll up your sleeves to get the job done.
- You have strong social skills and show the ability to work with different teams harmoniously.
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