Product Manager

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• Strong product management or product ownership experience leading complex digital, business, or enterprise platform modernization initiatives.

• Demonstrated ability to establish a clear product vision, product strategy, roadmap, and measurable product outcomes.

• Experience working directly with business leadership and operational teams to understand business challenges, identify opportunities, and define new product capabilities.

• Strong ability to conduct product discovery through stakeholder interviews, workshops, journey mapping, process analysis, user research, and data-driven insights.

• Experience translating business objectives and user needs into product capabilities, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release plans.

• Strong backlog ownership and prioritization skills, with the ability to balance business value, user impact, urgency, risk reduction, technical dependencies, delivery feasibility, and operational readiness.

• Experience defining Minimum Viable Product scope and creating phased roadmaps that deliver incremental value while supporting the long-term product vision.

• Strong understanding of Agile product delivery, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, release planning, product demonstrations, retrospectives, and continuous improvement.

• Ability to facilitate prioritization discussions and resolve conflicting expectations across business, product, and technology stakeholders.

• Experience defining product success measures, adoption metrics, operational KPIs, business outcomes, and post-release feedback mechanisms.

• Strong communication and presentation skills, including the ability to present product decisions, roadmap priorities, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership.

• Experience collaborating with UX, architecture, engineering, data, integration, quality engineering, security, operations, and change-management teams.

• Ability to provide timely product decisions and requirement clarifications so that delivery teams can progress without unnecessary delays.

• Strong understanding of user acceptance testing, business readiness, rollout planning, adoption, and post-production product support.

• Ability to manage product scope, risks, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, and changes in a structured manner.

Preferred PIM, PXM, and Retail Experience

• PIM/PXM experience is strongly preferred and should be considered an important differentiator when evaluating candidates.

Preferred experience includes:

• Product Information Management and Product Experience Management platforms.

• Retail product onboarding and item setup processes.

• Product and variant management, including SKU, UPC, style, color, and size relationships.

• Product enrichment, attribution, categorization, and taxonomy management.

• Product hierarchy, category, attribute, and reference-data management.

• Product-detail-page content and digital merchandising.

• Digital Asset Management, including product images, videos, documents, and related digital content.

• Product-data quality, governance, stewardship, validation, approvals, and exception management.

• Product workflow management, including business approvals and operational controls.

• Omnichannel product readiness and publishing to ecommerce, stores, marketplaces, mobile, search, and other downstream channels.

• Supplier, vendor , merchant, site-merchandising, and product-content workflows.

• Product catalog modernization and migration from legacy product platforms.

• Familiarity with platforms such as STIBO STEP, Salsify, Syndigo, Akeneo, Informatica PIM, or custom-built PIM and product-catalog solutions.

• Understanding of retail merchandising, ecommerce, marketplace, product discovery, navigation, search, pricing, promotions, and product content.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Stella Modernization program in alignment with business objectives.

• Partner closely with business stakeholders to identify opportunities, gather requirements, and translate business needs into prioritized product capabilities.

• Lead product discovery workshops and facilitate alignment across business, operations, technology, and leadership teams on feature priorities and release plans.

• Own and maintain the product backlog, including prioritization of epics, features, and user stories based on business value, customer impact, and strategic objectives.

• Serve as the primary product decision-maker, balancing business needs, technical feasibility, dependencies, risks, and delivery timelines.

• Collaborate with UX, architecture, engineering, data, integration, and quality engineering teams to ensure solutions align with intended business outcomes.

• Define MVPs and phased release strategies that deliver incremental business value while supporting the long-term product vision.

• Establish product success metrics, adoption KPIs, and outcome-based measures; continuously evaluate product performance and user feedback.

• Drive business readiness, user adoption, change management, and stakeholder communication throughout the product lifecycle.

• Provide regular executive-level updates on roadmap progress, priorities, risks, dependencies, decisions, and value realization.