Director, Product Management, Platform

About the Role

In this role, you will partner with business leaders and engineers to drive our next gen platform strategy that powers our iconic brands of Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, and Athleta. You will help define the product roadmap by working with other product management counterparts and leaders to understand upcoming capabilities to positively impact the customer experience.

What You'll Do

• Lead team of Product managers in prioritizing roadmaps & backlog, and work closely with the engineering teams to deliver and test quality software

• Develop and manage project plans and key stakeholder engagement strategy on all initiatives

• Build relationships with key business partners and other brand stakeholders; articulates product needs clearly and succinctly to different audiences and cross functional partners

• Develop in depth knowledge of industry trends and standards to introduce the continual process, tool and methodology improvements

• Identify, measure, and interpret results to validate product strategy;

• Provide research, analysis, and support for identifying, evaluating, and resolving strategic opportunities

• Collaborate and lead others in key initiatives and their implementation

• Responsible for planning, budget and end results; set policies and strategic direction for area/team

Who You Are

• 7+ years of Product Management experience and Bachelor's Degree

• Technical knowledge necessary to propose and influence new product and feature ideas, especially in platforms, APIs, and/or complex customer capabilities

• Demonstrate technical acumen; ability to influence and debate solutions with technical team members, to understand technology solutions and potential tradeoffs and to represent technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

• Self-starter with a bias towards action and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

• Operationalize product metrics and build business cases for new investments

• Thrives in understanding complexity and transforming it into simple user experiences

• Evaluate sometimes complex situations using multiple sources of information (internal and external sources)

• Able to filter, prioritize, analyze, and validate potentially complex problems and adept in presenting to Leadership

• In depth understanding of concepts and procedures within own subject area and understanding of procedures and concepts in other areas

Nice to Have

• Experience with Jira, Jira Plan and Confluence

• Experience with Headless, Tailwind CSS and API platforms

• MBA or Master's degree

• People leadership experience of product management teams