Product Manager

Product Manager

Location: Duluth, GA

Duration: Fulltime

Salary Range: $110,000 - $140,000

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

Strong product management or product ownership experience leading complex digital, business, or enterprise platform modernization initiatives. Demonstrated ability to establish a clear product vision, product strategy, roadmap, and measurable product outcomes. Experience working directly with business leadership and operational teams to understand business challenges, identify opportunities, and define new product capabilities. Strong ability to conduct product discovery through stakeholder interviews, workshops, journey mapping, process analysis, user research, and data-driven insights. Experience translating business objectives and user needs into product capabilities, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release plans. Strong backlog ownership and prioritization skills, with the ability to balance business value, user impact, urgency, risk reduction, technical dependencies, delivery feasibility, and operational readiness. Experience defining Minimum Viable Product scope and creating phased roadmaps that deliver incremental value while supporting the long-term product vision. Strong understanding of Agile product delivery, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, release planning, product demonstrations, retrospectives, and continuous improvement. Ability to facilitate prioritization discussions and resolve conflicting expectations across business, product, and technology stakeholders. Experience defining product success measures, adEligible to workion metrics, operational KPIs, business outcomes, and post-release feedback mechanisms. Strong communication and presentation skills, including the ability to present product decisions, roadmap priorities, trade-offs, risks, and recommendations to senior leadership. Experience collaborating with UX, architecture, engineering, data, integration, quality engineering, security, operations, and change-management teams. Ability to provide timely product decisions and requirement clarifications so that delivery teams can progress without unnecessary delays. Strong understanding of user acceptance testing, business readiness, rollout planning, adEligible to workion, and post-production product support. Ability to manage product scope, risks, assumptions, dependencies, decisions, and changes in a structured manner.

Preferred PIM, PXM, and Retail Experience

PIM/PXM experience is strongly preferred and should be considered an important differentiator when evaluating candidates. Preferred experience includes: Product Information Management and Product Experience Management platforms. Retail product onboarding and item setup processes. Product and variant management, including SKU, UPC, style, color, and size relationships. Product enrichment, attribution, categorization, and taxonomy management. Product hierarchy, category, attribute, and reference-data management. Product-detail-page content and digital merchandising. Digital Asset Management, including product images, videos, documents, and related digital content. Product-data quality, governance, stewardship, validation, approvals, and exception management. Product workflow management, including business approvals and operational controls. Omnichannel product readiness and publishing to ecommerce, stores, marketplaces, mobile, search, and other downstream channels. Supplier, vendor, merchant, site-merchandising, and product-content workflows. Product catalog modernization and migration from legacy product platforms. Familiarity with platforms such as STIBO STEP, Salsify, Syndigo, Akeneo, Informatica PIM, or custom-built PIM and product-catalog solutions. Understanding of retail merchandising, ecommerce, marketplace, product discovery, navigation, search, pricing, promotions, and product content.

Roles & Responsibilities

Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Stella Modernization program in alignment with business objectives. Partner closely with business stakeholders to identify opportunities, gather requirements, and translate business needs into prioritized product capabilities. Lead product discovery workshops and facilitate alignment across business, operations, technology, and leadership teams on feature priorities and release plans. Own and maintain the product backlog, including prioritization of epics, features, and user stories based on business value, customer impact, and strategic objectives. Serve as the primary product decision-maker, balancing business needs, technical feasibility, dependencies, risks, and delivery timelines. Collaborate with UX, architecture, engineering, data, integration, and quality engineering teams to ensure solutions align with intended business outcomes. Define MVPs and phased release strategies that deliver incremental business value while supporting the long-term product vision. Establish product success metrics, adEligible to workion KPIs, and outcome-based measures; continuously evaluate product performance and user feedback. Drive business readiness, user adEligible to workion, change management, and stakeholder communication throughout the product lifecycle. Provide regular executive-level updates on roadmap progress, priorities, risks, dependencies, decisions, and value realization.