Product Management Manager - Orange Apron Media

Group Product Manager

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose :

As a Group Product Manager within Orange Apron Media, you will be focused on two things : 1. Developing and coaching your team to become the best Product Managers possible. As a Product Management Manager (Group PM), your team of 4 PMs IS your product. From your experience, help your team continue to grow and develop into world class product leaders. 2. Defining the strategic context for your group of connected products. Ensuring that the product roadmaps for the teams in your product group are all in support of OAM's overall strategy and OKRs.

Key Responsibilities :

• 30% Strategy & Planning :
• Looks across product teams and feature sets with a focus on alignment and dependencies
• Gains a thorough understanding of customer and associate needs, both existing and potential, and uses that knowledge to help deliver enterprise products that provide Home Depot customers and associates with an unparalleled shopping experience
• Translates business goals and end user needs into product strategy and clearly communicates direction and product priorities to the product team and business partners
• Meets with users and stakeholders as needed to understand processes, pain points and system waste in order to identify where to improve the user experience
• Creates epics to drive improvements to product vision, features and back end systems, and adjusts for new business models
• Determines value to the business of anticipated product updates
• Identifies goals, metrics and appropriate analytics to measure the performance of products and continually makes recommendations and refinements to products based on learnings
• 40% Delivery & Execution :
• Reviews recommended solutions and work of product team to ensure products are aligned with company, stakeholder and end user priorities
• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
• Removes roadblocks and obstacles that may impair product teams to help ensure delivery of the product in order to meet strategic, financial and technical goals
• Receives and prioritizes incoming requests from business partners and stakeholders while keeping in mind the business strategy, product vision and user needs
• Provides regular updates to leadership regarding progress of products within portfolio
• 30% People :
• Provides leadership, mentoring and coaching to Product Managers
• Attracts, retains and develops top talent to build a world class Product Management Team
• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback
• Fosters collaboration with team members (Engineering, UX, etc.) to drive value and identify and resolve impediments
• Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
• Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the product, empathizing with and understanding user needs
• Works with the product team to continuously assess progress, disseminate lessons learned and understand next steps
• Manages cross functional team and stakeholder expectations to execute on product strategy and provides education to requestors to determine prioritization based on tangible benefits and / or user experience
• Guides more junior team members in strategy, alignment, analysis and execution tasks
• Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)