The Home Depot is looking to solve the problem of attracting, retaining, and developing top talent in product management to drive sales, improve efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction through the production of quality products.
Requirements
- Proficiency in working as a Product Manager in a modern software development based enterprise environment and overseeing multiple products
- Proficiency in modern software development product management practices and agile methodologies, specifically the extreme programming (XP) principles of paired programming, test driven development, and continuous deployment
- Proficiency in creating, prioritizing and accepting epics and user stories
- Proficiency in conducting user research and testing to understand needs
- Proficiency in identifying goals, metrics and analytics to measure product value
- Experience conducting competitive research and analysis
- Experience guiding more junior team members through Product Management fundamentals in a professional setting
Responsibilities
- Looks across product teams and feature sets with a focus on alignment and dependencies
- Translates business goals and end user needs into product strategy and clearly communicates direction and product priorities to the product team and business partners
- 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
- 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
Other
- Must be eighteen years of age or older
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
- 5-7 years of relevant work experience
- Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time
- Must have a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job
