Product Manager II, PIM - Product Information Manaagement

About the RoleIn this role, you will partner with business leaders and engineers to build custom software that powers our iconic brands of Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, and Athleta. You will help define the product roadmap by working with other product management counterparts and leaders to understand upcoming capabilities to positively impact the customer experience.
The domain of this role is in PIM, Product Information Management, where our online merchandising teams augment their products with copywriting, attributes, images, videos, and curate their hierarchy and categories which provides the customer a delightful way to navigate our site and products. The role will include day-to-day Product Management responsibilities that add capabilities for our internal online merchandising teams. These capabilities come from our leaders – large programs that are sitewide – and also from our users – insights that make their jobs easier. As a Product Manager II in this space, you will be working with the Senior Product Manager to explore with the users to create a vision of what PIM should do, create a backlog of changes for PIM that improve their experience, prioritize with them, and help them adopt the changes. You will succeed if you’ve mastered your composure within a fast-paced environment, have creativity while listening to user pain points, and know how to thoroughly provide step-by-step UI requirements and wireframes to your engineering partners.What You'll Do

• As a PdM II, you will support the Senior Product Manager and work with other product management and engineering counterparts to understand upcoming capabilities and help to scope out the customer experience. 

• Write robust requirements, prioritize the backlog, and work closely with the engineering teams to deliver and test quality software.

• Develop and manage project plans and key stakeholder engagement strategy on initiatives.

• Influence with candor while building strong and trusting relationships with key business partners in the brands and technology organizations.

• Articulate product needs and risks clearly and succinctly to different audiences.

• Elegantly navigate the balance between prioritization and team capacity, while reacting to changes in business partner needs and process.

• Develop in-depth knowledge of industry trends and standards to introduce the continual process, tool and methodology improvements.

• Identify, measure, and interpret results to validate product strategy; Provide research, analysis, and support for identifying, evaluating, and resolving strategic opportunities.

Who You Are

• Experience in designing, developing and implementing new capabilities.

• Experience with how APIs are designed and power a front-end capability.

• Experience working with large software engineering teams both within and outside of your domain.

• Demonstrate technical acumen; ability to influence and debate solutions with technical team members, to understand technology solutions and potential tradeoffs and to represent technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Ability to assess relatively complex situations and analyze data to make judgments and recommend solutions.

• Understanding of concepts and procedures specific to own subject area.