Product Manager II (Remote)

Role Specific Information

Job Description

About the Role

You are the product component of a cross-disciplinary product team, and will collaborate with Engineering, Design, Analytics, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to collectively evolve your product through the entire product development lifecycle. Using the principles of lean, agile, and user centered design, you lead and execute the regular activities of a product team to deliver outcomes for users and drive value for the enterprise. As Product Manager II for the Incentives team, you’ll be responsible for defining strategy, developing roadmaps, and executing against that strategy and roadmap. Our Incentives team plays a critical role in solving customers problems, and enabling our business to create moments that drive repeat business for Kohl’s.

What You’ll Do

• Manage the full software development lifecycle and refine your team’s process to deliver strategic outcomes

• Collaborate with your group product leader to deliver on product-level strategies that enhance user outcomes and drive business value

• Discover, develop, and build strategies for your product's problem space while engaging stakeholders to identify opportunities

• Potential responsibility for multiple products/systems under one problem area

• Conduct continuous research to identify valuable problems, define and deliver outcomes in a complex product space, facilitate ideation sessions to prioritize solutions, and coordinate delivery with other teams

• Deliver user value in an area with known problems, applying principled techniques to define users, problems, and solutions

• Create backlog stories and product documentation, prioritize tasks, and coordinate feature releases to promote rapid ideation to delivery cycles

• Measure impacts, solicit feedback, and make data-informed pivot or persevere decisions to improve your product

• Identify functionality that no longer provides value, and safely deprecate or modernize it in line with the product vision

• Engage with your product group to refine and harmonize practices with other product teams, contributing to group-level practice development

• Additional tasks may be assigned

What Skills You Have

Required

• Experience working in the software development lifecycle and delivering a product to market

• Ability to analyze data, interpret metrics, and use data to drive decision-making within a suite of products and services

• Strong problem-solving skills to identify user level issues, analyze potential solutions, and partner across domains to implement the best course of action

• Ability to communicate clearly with different stakeholders, including engineers, designers, and executives

Preferred

• 5+ years of experience in product management working on cross-disciplinary product teams

• Advanced training or equivalent practical experience in Product Management, Business, MIS, Computer Science, or related fields

• Ability to travel 10% of the time

Essential Functions

The requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl’s may revise this job description from time to time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship.

• Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the “What You’ll Do” Section

• Ability to comply with dress code requirements

• Basic math and reading skills, legible handwriting, and basic computer operation

• Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance and meet scheduling requirements as set by the company

• Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines

• Ability to give direction and to receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel

• Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others

• Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes

• Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs

• Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.

• Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units

• Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner