Sr Manager Digital Product Management- Product Creation Technology

POSITION SUMMARY

Although we're an apparel and footwear-focused company, technology is central to everything we do. Columbia Sportswear's Digital Technology (CDT) group enables an IT infrastructure and applications across four global brands, a global supply chain, and 500+ geographically dispersed stores. These teams support in-store, mobile, and data platforms to enhance customer interface and service in an ever-evolving industry.

The Senior Manager Digital Product- Product Creation Technology is a management role in the CSC Digital Technology group. Working in partnership with architects, business partners, engineering, and others, you will build the Product Vision, own the Product Roadmap, and lead a group of Product Owners delivering value for the Planning space. This role provides guidance in assessing product opportunities and risks, leverages data-driven approaches to test and optimize the product and suggests new solutions to increase the product's business value.

ABOUT THE POSITION

The Senior Manager Digital Product- Product Creation Technology requires a proven Product Management leader who with functional Product Creation knowledge that can lead multiple Digital Product teams. Our ideal candidate will have 5-7 years of experience in Digital Product Management supporting Product Creation Technology. They must have a customer-first mindset, a strong understanding of back-end and front-end programming languages, and the ability to develop data pipelines that can be used to track, analyze, and improve our digital product. This role requires a candidate with excellent analytical, organizational, and communication skills as you'll be working with a team to interpret large amounts of data. This is a customer centric role, working to translate the needs of the customer into business opportunities.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

• Drive product strategies and long-term vision to build best in class digital products
• Conduct user research and usability studies, collaborating with designers, developers, and research teams from end to end of the process.
• Ability to craft a product vision (short to long term) and convert that into a concrete strategy
• Participate in market research, validation, and whitespace analysis to identify new opportunities for new and existing features and functionalities
• Facilitate enterprise processes for feature, capability and strategic initiative identification, assessment, and prioritization
• Partner with business owners and agile product teams to build product roadmaps that will be incorporated into the broader company product portfolio plan
• Develop and implement data pipelines that extract, transform, and load data into an information product
• Work on managing, storing, processing and analyzing large data sets to identify business opportunities/efficiencies
• Evaluate, analyze, and understand the voice of the customer through a variety of data sources

YOU WILL

• Manage the product roadmap and backlog for Product Creation Technology products
• Oversee and manage lead requirements discovery, solution design, user story writing, feature development, and user acceptance testing
• Partner with the executive teams to identify key capabilities needed as well as identifying potential issues
• Partner with cross functional teams regularly to ensure alignment on feature development and prioritization
• Partner with Technology partners to manage the roadmap and backlog to ensure delivery of all capabilities on time and per expectation
• Monitor and evaluate product performance to ensure constant product iteration and improvements
• Recruit, retain and develop world class talent

YOU HAVE

• 5-7 years of experience in digital product management or similar role
• Strong functional knowledge of Supply Chain and Product Creation technology solutions
• Strong analytical, prioritization, and negotiating skills
• Usability and customer-focused design experience a plus
• Passionate about building great products and solving customer and business problems
• E xcellent collaboration and influencing skills
• Ability to maintain productivity in a multi-tasking environment
• Professional verbal and written communication
• Servant leader with a growth mindset
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field - preferred
• Experience writing SQL queries, experience with back-end and front-end programming languages, such as Java, HTML, CSS, Angular JS - preferred
• Core systems and technology: PDM, Salsify, SAP, Microsoft PowerBI - preferred
• Scrum Master Certification is a plus - preferred

#LI -JD1

Columbia Sportswear Company and our portfolio of brands, including Columbia, SOREL, Mountain Hardwear and prAna, know a thing or two about adventures. After all, we've been on one since 1938, working to perfect the art of enjoying the outdoors. Behind everything we make is an employee who's found that the greatest adventure starts with joining a company that strives to do the right thing.

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.

At Columbia Sportswear Company (CSC), we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. CSC believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.