Product Manager (Shopping Experience)

Job Title – Product Manager (Shopping Experience)

Location – Cupertino, CA (Onsite 3 days a week (Tuesday through Thursday).

Duration – FTE/Long term Contract

Need Ex-Apple

Job Description:

Summary

Seeking an experienced Product Manager to join the Retail Online Store team and focus on enhancements to key purchase flow shopping pages. This position requires strong cross-functional and project management skills, business sense and technical curiosity. You should have a passion for creating outstanding customer experiences through innovative solutions. You will partner on driving a large initiative already in progress, helping to influence design solutions, define requirements, oversee development progress, and establish a robust go-live strategy.

We are looking for someone who is collaborative, highly adaptable, and open to developing deep technical knowledge. It is a great opportunity to work on an important initiative and learn the Client’s culture and ways of working.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner on leading and delivering a project in-progress:
• Engage various cross-functional partners to address broad business needs
• Consider input and feedback from a variety of partners when making key project decisions and recommendations
• Facilitate regular meetings with partner teams to quickly problem-solve
• Understand the technical landscape related to the project to identify solutions
• Establish the required next steps to drive the project through development, testing, and launch
• Achieve all project milestones in a timely manner as established by the project Timeline

While executing on the project, you will:

• Collaborate with a Product Manager peer to ensure success of the project
• Prioritize team activities and drive resolution of issues across all areas of the project
• Communicate project status to various partners, up to senior leadership
• Advise and carry-out risk assessment and mitigation plans as needed
• Prioritize issues and tasks accounting for multiple tracks of intersecting work
• Maintain a keen eye for the details while ensuring the overall progress of the Project

Requirements to be Successful

• Experience organizing and planning large cross-functional projects
• Strong product management skills
• Ability to manage ambiguity and take initiative
• Experience developing innovative front-end customer experiences
• Account for multiple business stakeholders across variety of teams and technical systems, and synthesize features and capabilities
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both at the project level and to senior leadership, in a variety of forums
• Ability to learn technical (product) concepts quickly
• Ability to engage operational teams to plan for launch and provide a detailed strategy for ongoing management of the final product
• Excellent analytical reasoning and attention to detail
• Self-motivated and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Comfortable working in a constantly evolving environment where ambiguity and short turnaround schedules are the norm
• Clear and thorough documentation of project details and operational plans
• Successfully deliver the full scope of the project

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education. Technical background is strongly preferred
• Experience in product/project management for a larger internet site a big plus
• Minimum 5 years product management experience, with expertise in leading purchase flow enhancements preferred