Associate Product Manager – Remote
On-site
Job Description
The Associate Product Manager is responsible for assessing market needs and working with cross-functional product teams to find the fastest way to achieve value around those needs. The role focuses on delivering business value to drive sales, improve efficiency, and improve customer satisfaction through the production of quality products. Within their designated enterprise product line, Associate Product Managers work closely with teams of developers, designers, and business partners. They also manage progress tracking and financial monitoring for the product team.
The Associate Product Manager works in close partnership with more senior Product Management resources on the team.
Responsibilities
20% Strategy & Planning:
- Listens to and knows the customers of the product; gains understanding of customer needs to help determine minimum viable product (MVP) as well as future needs
- 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
- Monitors research as well as the competitive landscape to recommend the best solutions and ensure that products remain or become best in class
60% Delivery & Execution:
- 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; incorporates them into release planning
- Makes product decisions that drive value on a daily basis
- Identifies and considers pros, cons, issues, obstacles, dependencies, and value associated with features and enhancements
- Participates in stand-ups, iteration planning sessions, product demos, and retrospectives
- Condenses complex technical concepts into non-technical language for stakeholders
- Updates Home Depot systems on a standard cadence (e.g., financials)
- Creates, documents, and posts product artifacts to centralized repositories
- Manages the purchase order and invoicing process with 3rd party vendors
20% People:
- Fosters collaboration with team members (Engineering, UX, etc.) to drive value and identify and resolve impediments
- 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
Job Requirements
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
Preferred Qualifications:
- 0-1 years of relevant work experience
- Exposure to 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
- Familiarity in working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern software design and development team
- Exposure to creating, prioritizing, and accepting user stories
- Experience conducting user research and testing to understand needs
- Exposure to identifying goals, metrics, and analytics to measure product value
