Sr. Director - Digital Product, Commerce & Engagement

OUTGROWN YOUR OWN BACKYARD? COME PLAY IN OURS.

At Columbia, we're as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide, we're proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest, where natural wonders are our playground.

Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle: "It's perfect. Now make it better." As pioneers of relentless improvement, we are constantly evolving.

We believe the outdoors is ours to protect and strive to keep our planet healthy. We believe in empowering people to experience the outdoors to the fullest.

And we believe in you.

ABOUT THE POSITION

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.

We are seeking a Senior Director - Digital Product, Commerce & Engagement to help us spearhead our digital product team as we develop, identify opportunities, build digital solutions, and grow our digital product. This role leads Digital Product capabilities for the Columbia, prAna, Mountain Hardware, and SOREL brands to increase consumer engagement and drive growth. To do so, the role will lead a newly integrated team on a Digital Transformation journey, broadening consistent agile practices and growing a world class team, to accelerate the maturation of capabilities across the global footprint.

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

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities

• Manage the product roadmap and backlog for all digital 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

Required Skills and Qualifications

Our ideal candidate will have 5-7 years experience in Digital Product Management. 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 online business opportunities.

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field. Masters degree is preferred
• Experience writing SQL queries, experience with back-end and front-end programming languages, such as Java, HTML, CSS, Angular JS
• 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
• Excellent collaboration and influencing skills
• Ability to maintain productivity in a multi-tasking environment
• Professional verbal and written communication
• Servant leader with a growth mindset

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.