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- Encourage an innovative culture that fosters "outside the box" thinking
- Drive the vision of the team in support of business needs
- Understand and track key trends and innovations, continuously looking for opportunities to advance the product portfolio
- Act as product expert both internally and externally, providing learning opportunities to other Team Members and attending external industry events
- Provide leadership, management, and coaching
- Establish standards and best practices to maximize team performance and company advancement
- Develop growth plans and foster individual and professional growth
- Keep key stakeholders updated on product roadmap developments and advancements
- Manage issues, risks, and escalations as needed to support the product team
- Work closely with IT and other internal organizations to ensure alignment
- Contribute to the success of the larger team by driving joint collaboration, visioning, and planning
- Provide other Team Members with support in continued growth opportunities through shared product experiences
- Participate and drive formal mentorship opportunities to help other Team Members improve their product skills
- Establish the product roadmap and coordinate with key partners to manage product delivery and implementation timelines
- Partner with other Digital Product Managers to ensure product dependencies and integration points are considered during roadmap and release planning
- Establish product backlog priorities for release and sprint planning, considering new capabilities, minor enhancements, and defect fixes
- Product Strategy
- Proactively evaluate Guest experience strengths and pain points from all perspectives, to identify opportunities for new and/or improved experience delivery capabilities
- Develop and frame up product recommendations with associated cost, value and experience analysis, to gain approval and funding for development
- Collaborate and liaise with key business partners to establish product goals and objectives
- Ensure product alignment with the holistic experience transformation vision
- Partner with the UXUI team to establish experience interactions and designs based on high level feature requirements
- Drive detailed product Feature definition, including functional and non-functional requirements
- Support product implementation across the domestic sites, capturing site specific functional requirements in partnership with on-site stakeholders
- Facilitate product backlog grooming with the Delivery scrum team
- Define and document product user stories to enable technical design, development, and testing
- Participate in scrum team Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily-stand ups, and retrospectives
- Perform product validation throughout the development cycle, to ensure alignment with functional requirements.
- Maintain close partnership with Business Transformation to ensure that product functionality aligns with Operational and Business capabilities.
- Represent and support the product as the ongoing subject matter expert.
- Develop an ongoing approach for measuring the success of newly implemented experience enhancements, to enable well-informed future product planning
- Understands and actively participates in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established UO policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- People Management
- Including goal setting, escalation handling, and mentorship
- Managing the digital experience for a consumer website and/or mobile app
- Experience with large scale transformation initiatives
- Demonstrated ability to define and execute strategic initiatives
- Working in an agile technology delivery program
- Defining a customer journey and digital product roadmap
- Product backlog management, including Feature definition, requirements, prioritization and sprint planning
- Close partnership with a Technology Delivery team
- Stakeholder engagement and relationship building
- Executive communication, with the ability to influence decision making
- Excellent analytical, written and oral communication skills, and be able to explain complex concepts both concisely and simply
;or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Your talent, skills and experience will be rewarded with a competitive compensation package.
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