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Digital Product Manager (Onsite Search)
| REMOTE
**Opportunity to build the search experience from the ground up for an established, innovative, and growing global digital experience team (Fortune 100).
The Digital Product Manager (On-site search) will be an integral part of setting digital product, feature and user experience strategies while focusing on customer research, online features/services, and user experience, including content strategy, interaction and visual design.
*Position is REMOTE (working closely with a global team – ability to work in Eastern Time Zone).
*Should have developed the on-site search experience for large/complex/global B2B or B2C e-commerce company.
In this role, you will partner with diverse cross-functional teams to lead, execute, monitor, and deliver results for on-site search.
You must have the ability to succeed in a matrix environment, where success is dependent on your ability to collaborate with cross-functional partners in a positive, productive, and transparent way.
Job Responsibilities
- Working closely with Digital leadership, define and deliver the vision and strategy for optimizing and improving our on-site search experience to meet the needs of customers and business stakeholders.
- Translate the vision into a roadmap, author product requirements, and lead an agile team to build while driving decisions and escalating appropriately
- Focus the team on delivering outcomes for customers, rather than building features
- Identify and champion capabilities that maximize internal and external value
- Work cross-organizationally with business units, digital marketing, customer experience, customer support, product data and taxonomy, and other technology functional areas to ensure alignment
- Create user stories that effectively communicate customer needs and problems to developers
- Superior organizational skills, plus ability to thrive in a matrix environment where success depends on a high degree of cross-functional collaboration in multiple geographies
- Strong attention to detail including proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
- Build strong working relationships with internal customers and teams
- Lead stakeholder meetings to identify requirements, opportunities, and priorities
- Create and maintain the product backlog for on-site search
- Conduct planning sessions with the teams to prioritize work in upcoming sprints
- Engage directly and daily with delivery teams to execute the project
- Ensure product acceptance and readiness at key phases of the delivery cycle
- Lead communication efforts around the product, priorities, and future roadmaps
- Troubleshoot and triage day-to-day issues and work with the appropriate teams to resolve
- Provide status updates to the business and management
- Monitor threats, risks and opportunities that might affect the success of the product and hold accountability for the overall solution
Skills & Qualifications
What your background should look like:
- Strong experience implementing and managing modern search applications such as Lucidworks Fusion, Coveo, Solr, etc… on a B2B or B2C web ecommerce platform
- Coming from a large, complex environment.
- Experience working on both local and global (a plus) taxonomies
- Experience managing a catalog for a large B2B or B2C website
- Experience with complex, broad, and deep product data catalogs
- Clear communicator with strong writing and editing skills and good documentation skills
- High level of comfort with E-Commerce applications, ERP systems, PIM systems, Content Management Systems, Excel, Adobe Analytics, etc
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills and ability to define business cases
- Experience interacting with both business and technical teams
- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
- Experience with Jira (or equivalent)
- Ability to balance competing and conflicting priorities make critical decisions
- Ability to balance multiple simultaneous projects and manage own time appropriately
- Ability to challenge certain feature sets or ideas in a positive and collaborative manner
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