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Job Summary:

The Home Depot is a leading home improvement retailer, and they are seeking a Product Manager for their Finance team. The role is responsible for delivering business value by driving product changes and collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• 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; communicates direction and product priorities to the development team, other matrixed teams, and third-party partners

• Identifies goals, metrics, and analytics to determine product value; continually making recommendations and refinements to the product backlog based on learnings

• Conduct end user research to help identify user stories and help determine Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

• Partners with Finance to understand financial needs and assists in the creation of business plans for new opportunities

• Monitors research as well as the competitive landscape to recommend the best solutions and ensure that products remain or become best in class

• Evaluates research and market analysis on industry innovations and technology platforms to recommend the best possible solution

• Ensure product is aligned with company, stakeholder and end-user priorities to drive sales, improve efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction

• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met

• Formulates, tests and refines assumptions and hypotheses through user research and testing

• Creates, prioritizes and accepts user stories; incorporate them into release planning

• Makes product decisions that drive value on a daily basis

• Identifies pros, cons, issues, obstacles, dependencies and value associated with features and enhancements

• Participates in standups, iteration planning sessions, product demos and retrospectives

• Condenses complex technical concepts into non-technical language for stakeholders

• Fosters collaboration with team members (Engineering, User Experience Designers, etc.) to drive value and collectively identify and resolve impediments

• Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices

• Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by empathizing with and understanding user needs and becoming the domain expert

• Regularly 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; provides education to requestors to determine prioritization based on tangible benefits and/or user experience

• Exhibit active listening, facilitate sessions, and clearly communicate at all levels (Executive Leadership Team, store associates, etc.) and in all formats the product's long term strategy which is used to prioritize short-term action

Qualifications:

Required:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.

• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a high school diploma and/or GED.

• 1 year of relevant work experience.

• 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.

• Drives Results: Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances.

• Interpersonal Savvy: Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.

• Manages Ambiguity: Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.

• Nimble Learning: Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.

• 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.

• Empathy: Understands the needs of multiple stakeholders and is responsive in meeting their needs with the most optimal resolution.

• Plans and Aligns: Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.

Preferred:

• 1-3 years of relevant work experience

• Experience working as a Product Manager in a modern software development based enterprise environment

• Demonstrated experience with modern software development product management practices and agile methodologies, specifically the extreme programming (XP) principles of paired programming, test driven development, and continuous deployment

• Experience working in a fast paced, fluid environment where priorities shift on a regular basis

• Experience communicating with and influencing functional and technical team members at all levels in the organization

• Experience working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern software design and development team

• Experience creating, prioritizing and accepting user stories

• Experience conducting user research and testing to understand needs

• Experience identifying goals, metrics and analytics to measure product value

• Experience conducting competitive research and analysis

• No additional education

• No additional years of experience

• None

• None

Company:

The Home Depot is a retailer of hardware, consumer goods, and DIY supplies both online and offline while providing home delivery services. Founded in 1978, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, team size 10001+ employees, currently Late Stage.

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