sr Manager, Product Management (Technical)

Gap

Full-time - Mid Level

Clothing, Clothing Accessories, Shoe, and Jewelry Retailers

About the position

The Senior Manager of Product Management (Technical) at Gap Inc. is responsible for overseeing the delivery of capabilities that impact and enable various functions within the company. This role emphasizes collaboration with product management and engineering teams to ensure the uptime and performance of products meet operational needs. The Technical Product Manager will curate and prioritize a product roadmap, manage product requirements, engage with stakeholders and customers, and lead product launch strategies to drive efficiency and effective outcomes across the business.

Responsibilities

• Identify customer needs and business objectives for key platform, tech ops, and info sec initiatives.
• Develop a product vision that stakeholders can understand and rally behind.
• Translate product vision into technical features and user stories for development teams.
• Manage technical builds against customer needs and business objectives.
• Navigate development teams through organizational obstacles facing product builds.
• Contribute to and influence technical decisions with engineering and other development teams.
• Develop overarching product strategy through definition and management of a multi-year product roadmap.
• Determine and prioritize feature enhancements by soliciting feedback from internal and brand stakeholders.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, development, IT, operations, and vendors regarding the feature backlog.
• Steer a high-performing product line and drive cross-functional operational excellence and successful execution.
• Serve as the key collaboration point between business, technology, and other partners.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives and manage tasks, tools, and relationships in every phase of development, from product planning through launch and beyond.
• Champion product management strategy to teams across the enterprise.
• Deep dive into problems or opportunity areas and propose solutions to address.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in technical product management or a related role responsible for end-to-end product requirements.
• 3+ years of experience in Agile Scrum methodologies and practices.
• Experience in implementing visionary product leadership.
• Experience in building strategic product roadmaps.
• Expertise in communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Exceptional stakeholder management through excellent written and oral communication.
• Experience in product architecture and design principles.
• Ability to problem solve, identify issues, and manage through self-reliance to solution.
• Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• Advanced degree is preferred.

Benefits

• Merchandise discount for our brands: 50% off regular-priced merchandise at Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta, and 30% off at Outlet for all employees.
• One of the most competitive Paid Time Off plans in the industry.
• Employees can take up to five "on the clock" hours each month to volunteer at a charity of their choice.
• Extensive 401(k) plan with company matching for contributions up to four percent of an employee's base pay.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.