Sr. Product Manager For Orange Apron Media
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Position Purpose : The Sr. Product Manager for Orange Apron Media (OAM) is responsible for driving 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. They will collaborate with engineering, analytics, operations, and business stakeholders to define product requirements, manage backlogs, and deliver high-value features that enable internal teams and partners to build, measure, and optimize retail media campaigns effectively.
This position requires a strong blend of customer-back, user-centric design, product thinking, and technical acumen to deliver data products that are foundational to OAM's media ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities
50% Strategy & Planning :
- Seeks to empathize with and understand the end user deeply and use that knowledge to determine the fastest path to deliver value
- 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
- 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
20% Delivery & Execution :
Formulates, tests and refines assumptions and hypotheses through user research and testingDocuments, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are metCreates, prioritizes and accepts user stories; incorporate them into release planningMakes product decisions that drive value on a daily basisIdentifies and considers pros, cons, issues, obstacles, dependencies and value associated with features and enhancementsParticipates in standups, iteration planning sessions, product demo, and retrospectivesCondenses complex technical concepts into non-technical language for stakeholders30% People :
Fosters collaboration with team members (Engineering, UX, etc.) to drive value and identify and resolve impedimentsActs as a proponent of modern software development practicesAdvocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the product, empathizing with and understanding user needsWorks with the product team to continuously assess progress, disseminate lessons learned, and understand next stepsManages cross functional team and stakeholder expectations to execute on product strategy and provides education to requestors to determine prioritization based on tangible benefits and / or user experienceGuides more junior team members in strategy, alignment, analysis and execution tasksParticipates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)Participates in talent acquisition, development and retention activities in support of team