Tech Product Manager

Job Description -

NOTE : There will be tech screening + 2 rounds of interviews 

Tech Product Manager
Duration: 6 Months, Contract to Hire
Location: Remote
End client : Kroger 
JOB DESCRIPTION
A monetary force, this company, with over one hundred and fifty billion dollars in annual revenue is the pulse of the retail industry. By having over 2,750 different locations in thirty-five states, there is no doubt that this company directly impacts the lives of many people in the American populous, and, by extension, in the world populous. Being a part of such a massive retail organization can be intimidating, but this company, through their subsidiaries, is able to maintain personal relationships with their employees. Through intentionality, integrity, and innovation, this company is able to be an ideal workplace that excites and has a profound impact on several communities. This company fully understands that by working together there is no limit to what can be created.

This candidate must be able to own and drive a product from vision, through design, to requirements, and finally delivery, facilitate within a larger cross-functional team to solve business problems, work with significant autonomy and freedom, requiring little oversight. This autonomy, however, will be within a broader strategy set by a Senior Product Manager and/or Group Product Manager. This candidate must demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Identify product requirements and future enhancements through collaborative engagements to support product strategies.
• Create, maintain, and communicate product catalog roadmaps, including near-term delivery and 1–2-year product evolution, to engage stakeholders across the organization in aligning and supporting company and business unit strategies.
• Create highly collaborative cross-functional partnerships across the company matrix organization.
• Identify, measure, and improve key product catalog metrics to enhance the customer/user experience, and create a compelling, relevant product vision using web metrics, customer/user loyalty/insights, customer/user feedback/research and internal operational metrics.
• Identify opportunities to create best-in-class capabilities by leveraging customer & user feedback and team knowledge/expertise in order to connect company strengths with available resources.
• Develop a product plan and deliver breakthrough experiences to market by working with technical and non-technical partners; measure output, improve execution and continuously deliver production expectations.
• Model Agile principles by maintaining a groomed backlog and providing 1-N prioritization for backlog.
• Set criteria for Minimum Viable Product to increase the speed/frequency with which enhancements and new capabilities are delivered.
• Travel to work locations to attend company meetings.
• Travel to interview/observe the users and/or customers.
• Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation.

REQUIREMENTS

• 3-5 years of Technical Data Product management or data engineering experience in Azure, Databricks, Synapse environment
• 3-5 years of SQL or python experience at an intermediate to advanced level is required for performing data analysis and validation. Examples include querying data (e.g. prescriber information) tables using SELECT statements, performing joins, applying filters, and aggregating data to troubleshoot data issues. The ability to execute such queries and commands using tools such as, but not limited to, programming languages like Python, and query tools like SSMS, SQL Developer, Toad, and SQL Assistant, is essential.
• A minimum of 3-5 years of experience understanding, communicating, and documenting end-to-end process and data flows for various use cases as a part of product requirements gathering process. This would be done using tools such as, but not limited to, Mural, Lucidchart, Miro, Gliffy, and draw.io. Experience using the outputs to assess current and desired states, define acceptance criteria, and engage in roadmap discussions, as well as support the creation of technical design documentation.
• 3+ years of experience reviewing and supporting the maintenance of technical documents built for data organization as per of SDLC for data products. This includes reviewing ongoing changes to specification documents that are made with each release.
• 3-5 years of experience articulating business use cases for the data being ingested, curated, or extracted. The individual should be able to effectively map these use cases to the corresponding locations where the necessary data resides within the datasets. Furthermore, a solid understanding of data structures such as JSON, tables, and columns is essential that will support the realization of the use cases.
• 3-5 years of experience in defining ongoing ETL Data Quality Checks that needs to be automated in ETL Data Pipelines by the engineering team.  The ETL Data quality checks are Required Columns checks, Variance/Threshold Checks, Business Rules Checks, Count Checks.  The PM augmented those checks to further improve the data quality for data products.
• 3-4 experience in Building, Maintaining, and communicating 1–2-year roadmaps supporting enterprise goals and business value in planning tools such as ProductBoard, Airtable, etc.
• 2-3 years of experience in learning and adapting to evolving product strategy planning and execution tools, such as ProductBoard, Miro, Mural, Jira, Confluence, Notion, and Coda.