Director Of Product Management

Director of Product Management

We are looking for a Director of Product & Experience as we pioneer AI-based Digital solutions.

We are seeking an experienced Product Leader to lead the vision and delivery of our portfolio of digital planning experiences for the Merchandise Planning & Inventory Management (MPIM) function.

You and your team will lead the experiences for capabilities including forecasting, sizing, allocation and inventory management.

Details of the Job

• Support your team where they need your help (defining OKRs, prioritizing backlog, unblocking challenges, defining multiple solution concepts, data analytics to ensure your product is performing)
• Develop an understanding of supply chain processes and learn about the applications supporting those processes
• Partner with leaders to increase adoption of new ways of working
• Communicate progress to stakeholders, functional owners, and internal team members on program status and benefits tracking
• Partner with engineering and delivery teams to ensure that concepts/features are delivered that drive our OKRs
• Define product vision for each of your products
• Motivate and inspire your team and stakeholders to champion the product vision, goals, strategy, and benefits
• Help drive the digital transformation for the MPIM function, with a clear product strategy across your portfolio
• Partner with business teams to deeply understand individualized needs, and be the voice of our users to deliver the best solution against those needs

About You

• Ability to work some flexible hours due to varying time zones and regions
• Bachelor’s degree: MBA preferred
• Leadership skills to influence partners driving to timely completion in an agile environment
• Provides clear strategic direction – organizes well, set a clear and simple course of action, stays focused on the most important priorities
• Experience in working with Design systems
• Executes with excellence – is action-oriented, drives for results, set clear expectations and milestones, reviews progress, acts decisively, can be counted on to meet goals
• Experience leading and working across data, technical and business teams in a matrixed organization
• 5+ years of apparel / retail experience, ideally applying digital and AI within an operations function
• You have an entrepreneurial spirit, love autonomy & working in a fast-paced environment, know how to deliver, and long for the opportunity to design pioneering solutions to challenging problems.
• 8+ years of experience in a Product Management role
• Ability to perform market benchmarking on solutions out in the industry
• Understanding of technology concepts and effects, ability to manage trade-offs and evaluate new opportunities with all partners
• Experience with agile product management where a culture of experimentation and continuous delivery and discovery is promoted
• Experience in conducting research to identify end user needs and gaps and demonstrated ability to translate those needs into creative and engaging output
• Able to craft compelling narratives to convey product strategy and progress to stakeholders with a strong focus on business outcomes
• You have an understanding and passion for product and design methodologies with a strong focus on human-centered design

You can work remote but would need to come into the SF office once per month.

Salary to $230k base + 20% bonus/ stocks / benefits.