Dollar General is looking for a Director of Technology Product Management to lead the technology product vision for their Digital, Marketing, and Retail Media business units, overseeing the end-to-end vision and guiding teams towards achieving it. The role involves understanding business challenges, facilitating prioritization, and considering technology investments.
Requirements
- Understanding of technology acumen (software development methodologies, common technologies – APIs, etc.) as well as business acumen related to digital, marketing and retail media networks.
- Strong Technical knowledge with experience in Technical Product Management practices and agile software development
- Products are specific to digital, marketing or retail media spaces.
- 3 years of experience managing teams of product managers, and partnership with Director-level engineering and UX stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Oversee the technical product roadmaps, ensuring proper prioritization and technical sequencing, in partnership with the business product management team
- Define and measure outcomes and key results enabling a data driven organization.
- Develop a deep understanding of stakeholders’ business function and processes – and the technologies that they use
- Work with Business Product teams, Technical Product Owners and engineering teams to understand current and future technology capabilities.
- Facilitate the creation of vision & strategy that aligns business needs with technology evolution
- Establish and improve product management team practices, including training and development, standardization across the organization, clear epic and story writing, etc.
Other
- Leads a team of technical Product Managers and Product Owners towards a common goal supporting their professional development and day to day effectiveness
- Curiosity and a passion to learn new things
- Highly skilled in data-driven decision making, with a proven ability to comprehend and utilize data to guide informed strategic decisions.
- Ability to teach, mentor, train and enhance skills of direct or cross-functional teams
- Ability to simplify complex things and communicate them concisely and clearly making them easy to understand
- Ability to work alongside, influence and provide informal leadership to senior level stakeholders and cross-functional partners
- Strong written, oral, facilitation and presentation skills
- Relationship builder, strong ability to build new and maintain relationships cross functionally throughout the organization
- Digital and marketing product expertise – knowledge and successful utilization of digital marketing tools, strategies and best practices.
- Strong Technical knowledge with experience in Technical Product Management practices and agile software development
- Strength as a people leader with a proven track record of successfully leading product teams
- Retail experience preferred
- 8 years of experience in end-to-end product management, including multiple examples of landing consumer-facing product impact.
- Preferred qualifications: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration
