Ralph Lauren Sr. Product Manager, Mobile

BoF Careers; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Ralph Lauren Corporation in New York seeks an experienced Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy and roadmap for our Mobile App initiatives. You will drive growth and innovation by defining customer-facing experiences, internal tools, and BI needs, collaborating with global technology and business teams to deliver measurable outcomes.

The ideal candidate has a track record in digital consumer experiences, ecommerce, and global product management, with strong agile project management,

Qualifications

• Deep experience in digital consumer-facing experiences and successful business strategies.
• Ecommerce and global product management experience required; Mobile App experience a plus.
• Strong project management skills with agile product management experience.
• Excellent communication with business partners and executive management at all levels.
• Comfortable in a matrixed, iterative development environment with a bias for collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead product vision and global strategy for mobile app initiatives to elevate brand and drive engagement.
• Translate customer and business needs into clear product requirements for design and engineering teams.
• Guide cross-functional teams from discovery through feasibility and impact analysis.
• Define and manage a robust product roadmap with measurable goals and timelines.
• Establish objectives and track key results to measure success and iterate on results.
• Communicate findings, priorities, and tradeoffs to executive stakeholders worldwide.

Job description

Company Description
Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren's reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company's brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, constitute one of the world's most widely recognized families of consumer brands. At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.

Company Description
Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren's reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company's brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, constitute one of the world's most widely recognized families of consumer brands. At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration. Position Overview
Ralph Lauren is seeking an experienced, customer-centric Senior Product Manager to oversee the strategy and roadmap of critical initiatives for our Mobile App. This role will be responsible for driving growth and innovation via initiating, defining, and managing best-in-class products that encompass customer facing experiences, internal tools, and business intelligence needs. Collaborating with cross-functional global stakeholders across technology and business teams, this role will partner closely to develop optimal customer experience solutions that will propel our business. This position requires great vision, technical depth, communication, and partnership skills. A high degree of comfort in leveraging data to influence decisions is critical as well as a proven track record of driving results via internal and external relationship management. The optimal candidate will be passionate about driving our next generation of customer experiences, and focused on delivering significant, measurable business and customer impacts. Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead the product vision and global strategy of business-critical initiatives in order to elevate our brand, and drive customer engagement, acquisition, retention, as well as conversion
• Combine a strong understanding of user and business needs with a deep comprehension of technical dependencies to ideate and champion solutions that solve for unique and complex challenges
• Guide a global cross-functional team to generate new product ideas, leading the discovery to research and analyze for feasibility as well as detail customer and business impacts
• Manage a robust backlog of ideas and define a product roadmap of both foundational and innovative feature sets, executing against specific goals and timelines
• Translate roadmap into detailed requirements that provide clarity to complex problems and work with user experience/design, engineering and QA teams to execute and deliver high-quality products
• Establish clear objectives and monitor key results against goals in order to define and measure the success of initiatives
• Identify and lead efforts to analyze results, creating a feedback loop to continuously learn, improve performance, and discover opportunities for growth
• Create insights to guide the strategy and corresponding product roadmap through understanding customer's needs and behaviors, competition and emerging technologies
• Develop relationships and partner closely with key business partners to gain strong internal alignment and maintain tight communication around expectations and status
• Communicate with executive level stakeholders globally, including leading facilitated discovery and vision sessions, presenting findings and priorities, and negotiating tradeoffs
• Understand the complex and shifting ecommerce landscape, consumer trends, and available 3rd party products to apply insights to roadmaps that deliver added value.
  

Experience, Skills & Knowledge

• Deep experience working on digital consumer-facing experiences with proven success in defining and executing successful business strategies
• Ecommerce and global product management experience required, Mobile App experience a plus.
• Strong project management skills managing multiple large projects with agile product management experience
• Effective at communicating with and presenting to business partners and executive management while maintaining alignment at all levels
• Comfortable in a highly matrixed, iterative development environment and good at balancing collaboration and advocacy
• High level of intellectual curiosity and comfort with bringing definition and structure to ambiguity.