Description

 Strong product management or product ownership experience leading complex digital, business, or enterprise platform modernization initiatives.  Demonstrated ability to establish a clear product vision, product strategy, roadmap, and measurable product outcomes.  Experience working directly with business leadership and operational teams to understand business challenges, identify opportunities, and define new product capabilities.  Strong ability to conduct product discovery through stakeholder interviews, workshops, journey mapping, process analysis, user research, and data-driven insights.  Experience translating business objectives and user needs into product capabilities, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release plans.  Strong backlog ownership and prioritization skills, with the ability to balance business value, user impact, urgency, risk reduction, technical dependencies, delivery feasibility, and operational readiness.  Experience defining Minimum Viable Product scope and creating phased roadmaps that deliver incremental value while supporting the long-term product vision.  Strong understanding of Agile product delivery, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, release planning, product demonstrations, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.  Ability to facilitate prioritization discussions and resolve conflicting expectations across business, product, and technology stakeholders.  Experience defining product success measures, adoption metrics, operational KPIs, business outcomes, and post-release feedback mechanisms.  Strong communication and presentation skills, including the ability to present product decisions, roadmap priorities, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership.  Experience collaborating with UX, architecture, engineering, data, integration, quality engineering, security, operations, and change-management teams.  Ability to provide timely product decisions and requirement clarifications so that delivery teams can progress without unnecessary delays.  Strong understanding of user acceptance testing, business readiness, rollout planning, adoption, and post-production product support.  Ability to manage product scope, risks, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, and changes in a structured manner. Preferred PIM, PXM, and Retail Experience PIM/PXM experience is strongly preferred and should be considered an important differentiator when evaluating candidates. Preferred experience includes: • Product Information Management and Product Experience Management platforms. • Retail product onboarding and item setup processes. • Product and variant management, including SKU, UPC, style, color, and size relationships. • Product enrichment, attribution, categorization, and taxonomy management. • Product hierarchy, category, attribute, and reference-data management. • Product-detail-page content and digital merchandising. • Digital Asset Management, including product images, videos, documents, and related digital content. • Product-data quality, governance, stewardship, validation, approvals, and exception management. • Product workflow management, including business approvals and operational controls. • Omnichannel product readiness and publishing to ecommerce, stores, marketplaces, mobile, search, and other downstream channels. • Supplier, vendor, merchant, site-merchandising, and product-content workflows. • Product catalog modernization and migration from legacy product platforms. • Familiarity with platforms such as STIBO STEP, Salsify, Syndigo, Akeneo, Informatica PIM, or custom-built PIM and product-catalog solutions. • Understanding of retail merchandising, ecommerce, marketplace, product discovery, navigation, search, pricing, promotions, and product content. Roles & Responsibilities • Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Stella Modernization program in alignment with business objectives. • Partner closely with business stakeholders to identify opportunities, gather requirements, and translate business needs into prioritized product capabilities. • Lead product discovery workshops and facilitate alignment across business, operations, technology, and leadership teams on feature priorities and release plans. • Own and maintain the product backlog, including prioritization of epics, features, and user stories based on business value, customer impact, and strategic objectives. • Serve as the primary product decision-maker, balancing business needs, technical feasibility, dependencies, risks, and delivery timelines. • Collaborate with UX, architecture, engineering, data, integration, and quality engineering teams to ensure solutions align with intended business outcomes. • Define MVPs and phased release strategies that deliver incremental business value while supporting the long-term product vision. • Establish product success metrics, adoption KPIs, and outcome-based measures; continuously evaluate product performance and user feedback. • Drive business readiness, user adoption, change management, and stakeholder communication throughout the product lifecycle. • Provide regular executive-level updates on roadmap progress, priorities, risks, dependencies, decisions, and value realization. Generic Managerial Skills, If any • Strong leadership presence and the ability to influence stakeholders without relying on direct authority. • Ability to bring structure and clarity to ambiguous business situations. • Strong stakeholder-management skills across business leadership, product users, technology teams, and partner organizations. • Ability to facilitate difficult prioritization and scope trade-off discussions. • Strong negotiation, conflict-resolution, and decision-management skills. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. • Ability to communicate effectively with both senior executives and detailed delivery teams. • Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving ability. • Ability to manage multiple priorities, workstreams, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations. • Experience working with geographically distributed onsite and offshore teams. • Ability to balance strategic product thinking with disciplined execution. • Strong facilitation skills for discovery workshops, roadmap discussions, backlog refinement, release planning, demonstrations, UAT reviews, and decision forums. • Strong sense of ownership, accountability, and follow-through. • Ability to challenge requirements constructively and keep teams focused on measurable business outcomes

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