Product Manager II - Search & Browse (REMOTE)

At DICK’S Sporting Goods, we believe in how positively sports can change lives. On our team, everyone plays a critical role in creating confidence and excitement by personally equipping all athletes to achieve their dreams.  We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, reflecting the communities we serve.

If you are ready to make a difference as part of the world’s greatest sports team, apply to join our team today!

OVERVIEW:

Welcome to Product Management at DICK’S Sporting Goods, where we specialize in delivering retail excellence along every aspect of the customer journey.

Our mission focuses on crafting intuitive, easy-to-use products that span across our business. We are looking for a new team member who can bring product-market viability ideas that inspire, innovate and deliver elevated experiences for our customers and products.

The Team

This role will live on the ecommerce team responsible for all product discovery. You’ll be focused on how customers navigate to and search for products, iterating on enhancements and new features to drive customers down the ecommerce funnel.  

The Role

As a Product Manager II, you will work closely with other product managers, business analysts, scrum masters, portfolio managers, product designers and software engineers to deliver products and services that align to strategic priorities as well as achieve product-market fit. You will be an active participant in the organization and deliver high-quality products through the following:

Product Strategy
You will define a roadmap for your product in collaboration with your technology peers and stakeholders within a modern development environment. Your roadmap will be based in outcomes, establishing a “voice of the product” that empathizes with your customers’ and stakeholders’ needs. Your roadmap is informed by a prioritized product backlog, and you proactively plan UX, and discovery work well ahead of planned quarterly roadmaps.

Data-Driven Decisions
You will establish metrics and measurements for your product domain to report on value delivered. Using lagging and leading indicators’ performance to inform product iterations and prioritization within the roadmap. The recommendations you make to your business partners and product leadership are founded in data. The work you do has a hypothesis, and every deliverable ties back to business goals. Familiarity with OKRs is a bonus.

Testing and Research
Lean experimentation is a core value within a product team. You will aid in the formulation of hypotheses to coordinate A/B tests, prototypes or research, continually refining the product until the desired outcome is achieved. You’ll work very closely with the testing team and must have crisp hypotheses and desired learnings for every feature launch and test concept.

Delivery
Part of the job is to manage the backlog. You will create effective user stories as well as lead backlog prioritization and management; performing testing of product features with engineers to ensure acceptance criteria is met, capture bugs and work towards defect resolution. Finally, communication of features going live to your business partners closes the loop on a feature release.

Team Collaboration
Working as a team is essential for success! You will actively participate in stand ups, planning sessions, demos and retrospectives with your team on a weekly basis. This role has many stakeholders and dependent teams. You should expect to work across many workstreams and be a partner with business and other product teams.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

Strategy – How you understand and plan within a product team that solves customer problems and drives market impact

Form Strategy & Prioritize Work

• Builds the roadmap, collaboratively, based on outcomes

• Prioritizes product features and capabilities into a product roadmap aligned to outcomes

• Uses decision support tools to weigh the competing factors and objectives for a product(s)

• Effectively frames and voices the hypothesis for all the work.

Identify Opportunities

• Understands and can lead discovery exercises

• Uses data to identify customer pain points and prioritizes problems for the best business outcomes

• Reviews customer feedback mechanisms to identify trends and patterns

• Conducts market research and gathers data to identify Product ROI

• Identify the right problems and works with Group Product Manager to prioritize the problems for the best business outcomes

• Effectively partners with UX and Engineers to formalize opportunities and tie back to the business value

Form & Track KPIs/Metrics

• Gathers data and conducts research to identify Product ROI

• Partners with analytics teams to estimate value and clarify impact

• Measures adoption, usage data and business impact of launches to prove ROI

• Builds product objectives and goals in collaboration with key stakeholders

• Uses evidence-based influencing skills
   

Execution – How you support and provide oversight to the design and delivery of solutions to our customers
 

Enlist & Enable Stakeholders

• Conducts stakeholder identification workshops and creates stakeholder map by product

• Creates and communicates standard stakeholder touchpoints to maintain alignment

• Communicates backlog, prioritization frameworks and proactively shares roadmap with stakeholders on a regular cadence.

• Intakes new ideas from stakeholders and prioritizes them into the backlog

• Clarifies requirements from stakeholders for all new feature work to ensure alignment
   

Deliver Products/Features

• Proactively identifies dependencies and mitigates risky assumptions

• Identifies and communicates risks associated with shipping features

• Builds the release plan (who, what and when) including feature prioritization

• Collaboratively builds the User Story map and corresponding user stories

• Writes and refines user stories to articulate work to be done by software engineering that support outcome delivery

• Works closely with software engineering to ensure delivery of products map to customer experience and business requirements within needed timelines

• Performs validation for production releases, bug fixes and feature requests

• Troubleshoots defects, participates in root cause analysis & finds solutions for resolution

• Creates and presents reports on findings, defects, improvements, statuses and risk management

• Collaborates with third party vendors on day-to-day activities to ensure successful product experiences

• Leads sprint planning or iteration planning meetings

• Runs experimental, beta and pilot programs with early-stage products 

• Participates in Agile ceremonies, including planning, grooming, demos and retrospectives

• Acts as a trusted advisor and operations teammate within your product domain

QUALIFICATIONS:

Candidates for this role should have:

• Tangible experience working in Product Management

• Understanding of product lifecycle

• Knowledge of human-centered design principles

• Understanding of software development lifecycle

• Ability to balance business objectives and customer needs

• Demonstrated success defining & launching successful products

• A customer-centric view into developing great product experiences and the ability to advocate on a customer’s behalf

• A foundational understanding of Scrum and Agile

• Ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Strong deductive reasoning skills

• A curious attitude and desire to learn

• Ability to effectively collaborate and build relationship with various peer groups

• Experience working with third party vendors

• Bachelor's Degree

• 3 - 5 years of relevant experience preferred, including 2-5 years with relevant education linked to product management, or 7+ years without relevant education linked to product management.

• Ecommerce or relevant experience, product management or digital strategy with retail preferred, mobile or enterprise commerce platforms. 

This is a fully remote position.

This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.

#LI-KF1