Senior Product Manager - Merch Inventory Execution (MIX) (REMOTE)

At DICK’S Sporting Goods , we believe in how positively sports can change lives. On our team, everyone plays a critical role in creating confidence and excitement by personally equipping all athletes to achieve their dreams.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, reflecting the communities we serve.

If you are ready to make a difference as part of the world’s greatest sports team, apply to join our team today!

OVERVIEW :

Welcome to Product Management at DICK’S Sporting Goods, where we specialize in delivering retail excellence along every aspect of the customer journey.

Our mission focuses on crafting intuitive, easy-to-use products that span across our business. We are looking for a new team member who can bring product-market viability ideas that inspire, innovate and deliver elevated experiences for our customers and products.

Merchandising technology at DICK’S Sporting Goods aims to solve some of the toughest challenges in retail. Finding the perfect balance of the right product, the right price, the right place, the right time.

We obsess over the experiences of our Teammates, building products that enable insight driven decisions, leveraging data to optimize our inventory and pricing strategies, and providing services that distribute our assortments across the enterprise.

If you are a collaborative and creative problem solver, come be part of the team that lives and breathes planning, designing, acquiring, pricing, promoting, and managing our ever-evolving Omni-Channel Merchandising experience.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will work closely with other product managers, product designers, software engineers and stakeholders to deliver innovative products and services that align to strategic priorities as well as achieve product-market fit.

You will be viewed as a leader within the organization and deliver of high-quality products through the following :

Product Vision & Strategy

The very essence of being a product manager is having a solid foundation to build upon. In this role, you will blend innovation, strategy and execution to deliver top-notch experiences to customers.

You will define and establish a comprehensive vision, strategy and roadmap for your product within a modern development environment.

Product Outcomes

Be the voice of the product empathizing with customers and stakeholders! As a Senior Product Manager, you will set goals based on outcomes and measure progress towards those goals as well as alignment back to the business.

That data then informs future product iterations and prioritization within your roadmap.

Stakeholder Enablement

Bringing cohesion and coordination to domain level initiatives by blending strategy and tactics to achieve business results is essential in this role.

You will interact with all functional areas of the company including product design, software engineering, leadership and portfolio stakeholder groups.

Product-Market Fit & Go-to-Market Strategies

You will develop compelling arguments for your product success in the market as well as launch strategies that are inclusive of ramp up, marketing and adoption strategies.

Delivery

Part of the job is to manage the backlog. You will create effective user stories as well as lead backlog prioritization and management;

performing testing of product features with engineers to ensure acceptance criteria is met, capture bugs and work towards defect resolution.

This is a fully remote position.

This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

Leadership How you expand your influence through strategy, decision making, coaching, and management

Enlist & Enable Stakeholders

Uses evidence-based influencing skills

Manages complex stakeholder relationships

Conducts stakeholder identification workshops and creates stakeholder map by product

Creates and communicates standard stakeholder touchpoints to maintain alignment

Conducts stakeholder input sessions across various levels within the organization

Leads Framing exercises and facilitates the enablement of stakeholders

Leadership & People Management

Acts as a trusted expert, teammate and operations leader within your product domain

Uses organizational agility to influence teammates and peers without formal authority

Effectively mobilizes a team(s) and leads through uncertainty

Acts as an agent of change within the organization

Creates a people-first culture where teammates thrive

Advocates for the Lean Product mindset and leads by example

Actively participates within the Product Community of Practice inclusive of coaching and mentoring responsibilities

Strategy How you understand and plan within a product team that solves customer problems and drives market impact

Form Strategy & Prioritize Work

Builds the roadmap, collaboratively with stakeholders, based on outcomes

Uses decision support tools to weigh the competing factors and objectives for a product(s)

Effectively explains why’ you prioritized the work

Leads the creation of the vision and strategy for the product(s) that you support within a team setting

Communicates product strategy with dependent teams, stakeholders and leadership

Develops core positioning and messaging for product, inclusive of developing the product marketing sales tools and collateral

Identify Opportunities

Uses data to discover customer pain points

Identifies the right problems and prioritizes for the best business outcomes, aligning to the overarching portfolio strategy

Identifies complex patterns in data and builds expanded research models in partnership with Product Design

Uses advanced storytelling to capture the audience and drives alignment / decisions

Leads Product-Market Fit analysis, segmentation and buyer behavior for a product domain

Form & Track KPIs / Metrics

Develops growth matrixes, manages product team budget, sets pricing to meet revenue and profitability goals

Gathers data and conducts research to identify Product ROI

Evaluates ROI and uses to develop business cases for potential opportunities

Measures adoption, usage data and business impact of launches to prove ROI

Builds product objectives and goals in collaboration with key stakeholders

Drives accountability through facilitated data-driven ROI ceremonies

Regularly reports out on progress towards goals as well as product health

Identifies lagging and leading indicators to measure progress towards goals and outcomes

Execution How you support and provide oversight to the design and delivery of solutions to our customers

As a Senior Product Manager, you may support one or more product teams within a given portfolio.

Deliver Products / Features

Proactively identifies dependencies and mitigates risky assumptions

Identifies and communicates risks associated with shipping features

Builds the release plan (who, what and when) including feature prioritization

Collaboratively builds the User Story map and corresponding user stories

Writes user stories to articulate work to be done by software engineering that support outcome delivery

Works closely with software engineering to ensure delivery of products map to customer experience and business requirements within needed timelines

Manages testing to detect and fix issues to make necessary improvements

Manages third party partnerships, assessments and identification of potential opportunities

Leads sprint planning or iteration planning meetings

Runs experimental, beta & pilot programs with early-stage products

Participates in Agile ceremonies, including stand ups, demos and retrospectives

Communicates with legal, compliance, security and other critical teams

QUALIFICATIONS :

Candidates for this Role Should Have :

An advanced understanding of Product Management

Advanced knowledge and application of human-centered design practices

Understanding of a product lifecycle

Understanding of the software development lifecycle

Ability to balance business objectives & customer needs

Success in defining a cohesive product vision, strategies and roadmap

Ability to speak to and application of complex product concepts

Advanced go-to-market strategies resulting in successful product launches

Customer-centric view into developing great product experiences and the ability to advocate on a customer’s behalf

Use of market data, customer needs and innovative thinking to remain competitive in the domain

Intermediate understanding of Scrum and application in a Product Management role

Effective facilitation, relationship building and collaboration skills to drive alignment across organizational peers and stakeholder groups

Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and leadership stakeholders without formal authority

Agility to move between product domains or portfolios as business needs arise

Advanced written and verbal communication skills

Curious attitude and desire to learn

Ability to know when to pivot or persevere based on data and learnings

Experience working with third party vendors

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Targeted Pay Range : $95,200 - $158,800. This is part of a competitive total rewards package that could include other components such as : incentive, equity and benefits.

Individual pay is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations.

We review all teammate pay regularly to ensure competitive and equitable pay. We also offer a generous suite of benefits.

To learn more, visit www.benefityourliferesources.com.

Candidates for this Role Should Have :

An advanced understanding of Product Management

Advanced knowledge and application of human-centered design practices

Understanding of a product lifecycle

Understanding of the software development lifecycle

Ability to balance business objectives & customer needs

Success in defining a cohesive product vision, strategies and roadmap

Ability to speak to and application of complex product concepts

Advanced go-to-market strategies resulting in successful product launches

Customer-centric view into developing great product experiences and the ability to advocate on a customer’s behalf

Use of market data, customer needs and innovative thinking to remain competitive in the domain

Intermediate understanding of Scrum and application in a Product Management role

Effective facilitation, relationship building and collaboration skills to drive alignment across organizational peers and stakeholder groups

Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and leadership stakeholders without formal authority

Agility to move between product domains or portfolios as business needs arise

Advanced written and verbal communication skills

Curious attitude and desire to learn

Ability to know when to pivot or persevere based on data and learnings

Experience working with third party vendors

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