Orange Apron Media (OAM) needs to drive the design, delivery, and adoption of data products that power media sales, planning, activation, measurement, and optimization. This role bridges business needs with technical execution, ensuring our data products are scalable, reliable, and aligned with OAM’s strategic growth objectives.
Requirements
- 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
- Proven ability to deliver customer-back, user-centric data products that solve real business problems and drive adoption.
- Experience translating business objectives into clear product roadmaps, backlogs, and requirements.
- Strong understanding of data modeling, pipelines, and quality concepts to ensure data products are trusted and reliable.
- Ability to partner with data engineering and analytics teams to deliver end-to-end data solutions, from ingestion to reporting or activation.
- Comfort working with SQL, APIs, or other tools to validate data and guide requirements.
- Understanding of retail media or digital media ecosystems, including ad servers, DSPs, audience segmentation, campaign metadata, and performance measurement.
Responsibilities
- 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 makes recommendations and refinements to the product backlog based on learnings
- Manages and grooms the product backlog; makes future decisions based on the value that will be delivered
- Formulates, tests and refines assumptions and hypotheses through user research and testing
- Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
- Creates, prioritizes and accepts user stories; incorporate them into release planning
- Condenses complex technical concepts into non-technical language for stakeholders
Other
- Seeks to empathize with and understand the end user deeply and use that knowledge to determine the fastest path to deliver value
- Partners with Finance to understand financial needs and assist 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
- Ensures that product directions balance both the user needs and business goals of driving sales, improving efficiency and enhancing customer satisfaction
- Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.
