Some quick references about this opportunity are as below:
Job Title: Product Manager 4
Duration: 12 months contract (possibility of extension)
Project Location: 645 Clyde Avenue, Mountain View, CA (4 days onsite, 1 day remote )
Job ID: 13366-1
Top 3 Skill Sets: Product Management
- Stakeholder Management
- eCommerce
- Education Requirement: Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Roles and responsibilities:
- This person will drive client eCommerce initiatives related to
- Inventory and supply chain management
- Order management, fulfillment and logistics (forward and return)
- Innovate and automate in the above areas to improve customer satisfaction, contribute to revenue increase and reduction in operational costs
- Work with product and engineering team in designing product solution, finalizing estimate, budget and plan/prioritize in upcoming roadmap, resolve issues during build and test, and launch product on timely fashion
- Write product specifications and work with UX designers to build the Mocks
- Work with Architect to simplify product feature for technical design solutions
- Prioritize and allocate work based on roadmap and backlog
- Finalize plan, estimate and schedule working with engineering and QA teams
- Work with development and quality assurance engineers to build and ship the features
- Collaborate with external partners and internal account team on new product launches
- Communicate and resolve issues, risks and progress to all the stakeholders
- Monitor and measure launched products and feed learnings back into product development process
- Internalize and deeply understand client’s mission and strategies, as well as the mission and objectives of the eCommerce team
- Distill vision and strategy for the team, get all members of cross-functional team excited
- Be data centric to make informed product direction, whether in the form of competitive intel, customer behavior or other business metrics. Solicit and embrace critical feedback
- Drive innovation, definition, deliverables planning (roadmap) and design of entirely new products and features to deliver against team and company goals
- Drive cross-functional team to set qualitative objectives and quantitative goals
- Drive definition of and execution against product go-to-market plan, including phasing and training
- Clearly communicate product plans, benefits and results, as appropriate, to both internal stakeholders and external stakeholders.
- Has strong technical skills and is proficient in Confluence, JIRA, and Smartsheet
Background & Competencies Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in relevant field required; computer science undergraduate degree or relevant engineering degree plus hands-on software engineering experience strongly preferred
- Technical understanding must go from the highest abstractions down to the metal
- 8+ years of experience delivering highly successful and innovative consumer Internet products with your fingerprints all over them which you’re extremely proud of what you’ve accomplished
- Having prior experience on the consumer electronics eCommerce space is a huge plus especially in the inventory management, fulfillment and logistics
- Stellar design instincts and product taste
- Characteristics
- A high bar across the board - from your own contributions to the people you work with to the products you work on
- A “leader” personality - biased toward action, great collaborator and master disambiguate/simplifier - constantly pushing toward clarity and delivery
- Grittiness. You never hesitate to roll up your sleeves and tackle something hands-on, you persevere when others fall away
- Finger-tippiness with data: you just go get the data you need with no muss/fuss and can whip it into an insightful story with no help. You know how to leverage data to make decisions without getting stuck in analysis paralysis
- A never-ending desire to learn and grow