Manager – Data Product Management

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose:

Are you passionate about Data?  Are you fascinated with Product?

Are you inspired to create insights beyond a Tableau Dashboard, advance the way people democratize data, automate decision-making, drive ML/AI, and challenge the status quo to how we do business day to day?

If your interest is still here, final question.  Are you ready to lead a high-performing, innovative, and SUPER FUN team through the next generation of Insights?

As our lives become increasingly digital, companies are adapting to harness digital activity and turn it into revenue.  The goal is not just data collection from prospects and customers but translating that data into actionable insights that will transform their business.

The Data Product Management (DPM), Manager position is responsible:

·        Leading a diverse team with a diverse set of products and services identifying the strategic information needs for Homedepot.com

·        Designing products and features based on advanced data-driven insights, visualize data with viz tools for statistical analysis

·        Identify unique relationships between variables via hypothesis testing and modeling.  

We are consistently advancing the way data is being utilized, leading the development of descriptive analytics measurement and tools to provide insights to the organization.  The DPM, Manager, is focused on delivering incremental value by driving product changes and working closely with a team of developers and business partners.  They support in-depth business reviews, communicate and present across all levels of the organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• 30% Strategy & Planning:
• Looks across product teams and feature sets with a focus on alignment and dependencies
• Gains a thorough understanding of customer and associate needs, both existing and potential, and uses that knowledge to help deliver enterprise products that provide Home Depot customers and associates with an unparalleled shopping experience
• Translates business goals and end user needs into product strategy and clearly communicates direction and product priorities to the product team and business partners
• Meets with users and stakeholders as needed to understand processes, pain points and system waste in order to identify where to improve the user experience
• Creates epics to drive improvements to product vision, features and back end systems, and adjusts for new business models
• Determines value to the business of anticipated product updates
• Identifies goals, metrics and appropriate analytics to measure the performance of products and continually makes recommendations and refinements to products based on learnings
• 40% Delivery & Execution:
• Reviews recommended solutions and work of product team to ensure products are aligned with company, stakeholder and end user priorities
• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
• Removes roadblocks and obstacles that may impair product teams to help ensure delivery of the product in order to meet strategic, financial and technical goals
• Receives and prioritizes incoming requests from business partners and stakeholders while keeping in mind the business strategy, product vision and user needs
• Provides regular updates to leadership regarding progress of products within portfolio
• 30% People:
• Provides leadership, mentoring and coaching to Product Managers
• Attracts, retains and develops top talent to build a world class Product Management Team
• Conducts annual and mid-year reviews, reviewing individual development plans and providing performance feedback
• Fosters collaboration with team members (Engineering, UX, etc.) to drive value and identify and resolve impediments
• Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
• Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the product, empathizing with and understanding user needs
• Works with the product team to continuously assess progress, disseminate lessons learned and understand next steps
• Manages cross functional team and stakeholder expectations to execute on product strategy and provides education to requestors to determine prioritization based on tangible benefits and/or user experience
• Guides more junior team members in strategy, alignment, analysis and execution tasks
• Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Typically reports to the Product Management Sr. Manager, Technology Director or Sr. Director.

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5-7 years combined experience in product development and building and specifying Web-based business applications & technologies
• A strong background (minimum of 3 years) in analytics, business intelligence, business strategy, or finance is preferred 
• Experience with Agile software development tools such as Jira or other Agile reporting tools
• Manage PM’s effectively by helping them achieve maximum impact with minimum effort
• Developed business proposals and cases for new business opportunities
• Identify competitive products and their strength and weakness and accordingly recommend product improvements to improve sales, product authority, and scale
• Strong GTM (go-to-market) skills to increase product usage, adoption and assist in launches of other future products/services
• Conducted or Participated from start to finish user research and testing to understand current and future needs of the business, team, and clients 
• Partner closely with Cross-Functional teams to understand their business goal and how Data Products empower their understanding and address their business needs
• Experiences in product strategy and plans, driving consensus and buy/sign-off from executive level reviews
• Managed and successfully delivered multiple projects with complexity requiring cross-team collaboration
• You lead by example; have excellent interpersonal skills with a focus on relationship development and mentorship
• Self-starter who can proactively identify and solve problems
• Must have fun doing what you do
• Must have energy, tenacity, and the drive to persevere even when we encounter some of the toughest challenges in this space

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor’s degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 5

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• Attracts Top Talent: Attracting and selecting the best talent to meet current and future business needs
• Balances Stakeholders: Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders
• Builds Effective Teams: Building strong-identity teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals
• Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals
• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences
• Cultivates Innovation: Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful
• Customer Focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions
• Develops Talent: Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals
• Drives Engagement: Creating a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people
• Manages Complexity: Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems
• Organizational Savvy: Maneuvering comfortably through complex policy, process and people-related organizational dynamics
• Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations