Product Manager, Data Products & Insights

84.51˚; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 77,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness benefits

401(k) with matching

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

84.51° is seeking an early-career product professional to help build data products that underpin scalable analytics, self-service data use, and future AI capabilities. You will connect business needs with client and stakeholder goals and translate them into reusable product capabilities.

You will contribute to the product vision, work with cross-functional teams, and help evolve a portfolio that drives revenue, adoption, and measurable value for Kroger and 84.51°.

Qualifications

• 0 - 2 years of relevant experience, including internships, academic projects, or equivalent experience.
• Developing strategic and critical thinking skills.
• Visual communication and storytelling.
• Ability to work through ambiguity and changing priorities.
• Creative problem-solving and curiosity.
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.
• Emerging leadership skills and the ability to motivate others through shared purpose.
• Developing business acumen and an interest in connecting product work to measurable outcomes.
• Understanding of customer value propositions and basic product positioning.
• Familiarity with customer research methods and a willingness to learn through direct user engagement.
• Familiarity with data and analysis, including basic concepts such as data quality, metadata, documentation, lineage, ownership, and discoverability.
• Exposure to developing or supporting software, platform, analytics, or data products in an agile environment with cross-functional teams.
• Exposure to product discovery, hypothesis-driven experimentation, iterative customer research, or academic and project-based equivalents, with an ability to connect work to business outcomes and learning goals.
• Ability to support stakeholder alignment on business vision and priorities and communicate context to delivery teams.
• Ability to build knowledge of and empathy for customer and user problem spaces, and to support research goals that align with business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to product portfolio strategy that balances business need, customer value, opportunity, feasibility, and achievability.
• Uses analytics, research, customer feedback, and product data to support product team decisions.
• Reframes business needs into product solutions and reusable data capabilities.
• Contributes to a shared understanding of product vision and strategy across business, clients, stakeholders, and product teams.
• Drives business value for the team by helping prioritize and order product backlog items based on the product roadmap.
• Supports effective management of the team's product backlog and helps ensure it is transparent, visible, and clearly communicated.
• Translates business needs and requirements into effective features and stories that are ready for development.
• Outlines clear acceptance criteria to communicate the definition of done, including relevant data quality and usability expectations.
• Builds and manages stakeholder relationships to support alignment and drive change.
• Develops working knowledge of quantitative and qualitative product data to inform product decisions and the roadmap.
• Develops a good understanding of the business domain, stakeholders, data, business processes, and constraints in which the product(s) operate.
• Develops an understanding of customer and user problems, how they work, and the platforms, technology, and data they use.
• Understands and communicates organizational objectives, strategies, and solution needs to help the team deliver results.
• Identifies, manages, and communicates dependencies and risks, including risks related to data quality, ownership, access, and usage.

Skills

Product thinking

Strategic thinking

Visual communication

Ambiguity management

Creative problem solving

Interpersonal skills

Emerging leadership

Business acumen

Customer value propositions

Customer research

Data concepts familiarity

Agile environment experience

Product discovery

Job description

84.51° is seeking an early-career product professional to help build data products that underpin scalable analytics, self-service data use, and future AI capabilities. You will connect business needs with client and stakeholder goals and translate them into reusable product capabilities.

You will contribute to the product vision, work with cross-functional teams, and help evolve a portfolio that drives revenue, adoption, and measurable value for Kroger and 84.51°.