Manager - Digital Product - Search (REMOTE)

WESCO Distribution; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Product Manager to oversee the lifecycle of a digital search product. This role requires a visionary leader who can align product objectives with business goals and enhance customer experience through strategic planning and execution. You will collaborate with various teams, manage product rollouts, and utilize your expertise in digital channels to drive innovation. If you are passionate about product management and have a knack for solving user problems, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management lifecycle management in digital applications.
• Experience in digital channels including web, mobile, and social.

Responsibilities

• Drive product strategies to enhance internal search experience.
• Lead agile ceremonies and communicate product roadmap across teams.

Skills

Product Management

Agile Methodologies

Digital Channels Experience

User Experience Design

Communication Skills

Market Research

Cross-Functional Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

As a Product Manager of internal search, you will oversee the entire lifecycle of the search digital product, from inception to maturity. You will be responsible for aligning the overall product vision with business objectives and managing the rollout of this vision into a successful launch. Acting as a mediator between consumers, business partners, and technical teams, you will communicate consumer needs and translate them into new product features for the team to design and build. With a deep understanding of internal search methodologies, you will execute improvements and promote value. Additionally, you will play a key role in facilitating a digital roadmap to achieve strategic goals and drive connections among internal teams to enhance customer experience.

Responsibilities:

• Drives product strategies and vision to build best in class internal search experience
• Accountable for the success of the product and ensures that the products deliver measurable value across the Product Management Lifecycle
• Takes the lead of search agile ceremonies, develops and communicates the product roadmap across the enterprise and with external partners/stakeholders.
• Develops a detailed understanding of user and business needs through persona identification, journey mapping, and a Design Thinking approach to product management
• Plans and prioritizes the delivery of features based on business guidance, time, governance constraints, and value.
• Communicates with Portfolio, Digital, and Various leaders on business needs, progress to goals, KPIs, and outcome-based roadmaps.
• Leads the team by working collaboratively to clearly understand and communicate the vision, problem opportunities, and ensures the team always has the appropriate backlog of work.
• Oversees the acceptance of work generated by the team under the agreed Definition of Done and continues to drive the agile mindset and best practices.
• Partners with product, commercial, change, and marketing teams to ensure that customer needs for each targeted segment are incorporated into product design, branding, and marketing approaches.
• Keeps abreast of external digital landscape, including annual competitive studies, targeted competitive analysis, industry trends and digital developments in other market segments to proactively recommend capabilities that enable growth.
• Responsible for delivering on our Ecommerce focused customer journey to drive conversion and aid in replatforming efforts for our Omnichannel organization.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Product management lifecycle management in a digital application – 5 years
• Experience operating in digital channels, including web, mobile, apps and social; experience with scanning and mobility solutions – 5 years
• Leading and growing a product and team with an outcome focused roadmap. – 3 years
• Presenting recommendations to peers, management and leadership. – 2 years
• Leading in depth research and analysis on markets, best practices, evolving customer and industry expectations – 1 year
• Product Owner/Scaled Product Owner on a scrum team in an agile environment – 3 years
• Product Management Life Cycle experience in the digital space
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong knowledge of cross-browser, cross-platform and cross-device compatibility standards and behaviors.
• Knowledge of visual design principles and graphical user interface development.
• Ability to lead cross-functional groups (internal and external) in strategic and tactical discussions with clear goals, objectives and outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to filter through various requests and provide return-on-effort recommendations to management.
• Ability to multi-task and reprioritize in a dynamic environment.
• Curious mind that constantly looks to solve user/customer problems.
• Ability to travel up to 25%

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