Senior Product Manager - Retail Foundation : Partner Management (Hybrid - Seattle)

Senior Product Manager

The Senior Product Manager is a strategic leader within the Nordstrom Product Management team, driving the evolution and optimization of our vendor management capabilities and supplier collaboration platform. This role will shape the future of how we enable seamless workflows for our internal users and external vendor partners through innovative, data-driven product strategies.

Product Management is responsible for making sure we build the right products and features for our customers and business. To accomplish that, product managers plan the product roadmap and prioritize the applicable technology backlog, lead product discovery, and measure and communicate results of the feature portfolio in production, all while ensuring stakeholder alignment. The Partner Management team seeks a visionary leader who can define and execute a multi-year product strategy that transforms our partner ecosystem.

The ideal candidate excels at driving organizational change, making complex trade-off decisions, leading through influence across multiple domains, and applying strategic thinking to balance immediate business needs with long-term platform evolution.

A day in the life...

• Drive the strategic evolution of external partner capabilities as a lead product owner, partnering with technology and business leaders to define and execute a transformative multi-year roadmap.
• Shape organizational strategy by connecting partner management initiatives to broader enterprise goals and identifying cross-domain opportunities for innovation.
• Lead complex decision-making involving multiple stakeholder groups, making difficult trade-offs between competing priorities while maintaining strategic focus.
• Orchestrate cross-functional alignment across multiple domains and business units, ensuring partner platform initiatives support enterprise-wide objectives.
• Define and decompose complex, ambiguous problems into actionable strategies that balance technical feasibility with business impact.
• Establish product excellence standards for the domain, mentoring other product managers and setting best practices for partner integration patterns.
• Drive measurable business outcomes through sophisticated KPI frameworks that connect product metrics to enterprise value creation.
• Navigate organizational complexity to remove systemic barriers and accelerate delivery across multiple teams and dependencies.
• Champion continuous innovation by identifying emerging market trends and translating them into competitive advantages for our partner ecosystem.
• Lead incident response for critical partner platform issues, coordinating across organizations to ensure rapid resolution and root cause analysis.
• Influence without authority to gain buy-in for strategic initiatives from senior leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Build strategic partnerships with key vendors and technology providers to enhance platform capabilities.

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About Us

We're a fast-moving fashion company that started as a shoe store in 1901. This heritage of service is the foundation we're building on as we provide convenience and true connection for our customers. We empower our people to be innovative, creative and focused on providing the best service to our customers. Through it all, we remain committed to leaving the world better than we found it. Whether you're a genius engineer, a phenomenal salesperson or a supply chain pro, we invite you to bring your unique talents and join our team. We reward great work, promote from within and celebrate diversity.

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CURIOUS AND EVER CHANGING We approach problems with curiosity and create solutions. We unlock potential to be bold, think big and inspire innovation.

HERE TO WIN We're committed to delivering results, both today and tomorrow. We win as a team by supporting and challenging one another to be better every day.

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