Sr Manager, Product Management (Technical)

Gap - San Francisco, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Francisco, CA

Clothing, Clothing Accessories, Shoe, and Jewelry Retailers

About the position

In this role, you are accountable for ensuring the delivery of all capabilities impacting and enabling our functions. This includes real-time relevant business communications and engagement to ensure our capabilities' uptime and performance meets the operating need. Collaboration with product management and engineering is key to success in this role. The Technical Product Manager will work closely with leadership and cross-functional teams to curate and prioritize a product roadmap while defining our product practice to deliver transformational value across these lines of business, including the delivery of key initiatives that drive more efficiency and effective product outcomes. You will be responsible for roadmap development, product requirements management, stakeholder and customer engagement, leadership reviews, user testing, and product launch strategy and execution.

Responsibilities

• Identify the customer needs and business objectives that key platform, tech ops and info sec initiatives will fulfill
• Develop a product vision that all stakeholders can understand and rally behind
• Translate product vision into technical features and user stories for development teams
• Manage technical build 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 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, relationships in every phase of development, from product planning through launch and beyond
• Champion product management strategy to teams across the enterprise
• Deep dive problems or opportunity areas and propose solutions to address

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in technical product management or a related role in which you were responsible for owning and driving 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 with people who have different levels of expertise, experience, and involvement in the product
• 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
• Advance degree is preferred.

Benefits

• Merchandise discount for our brands: 50% off regular-priced merchandise at Old Navy, Gap, 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.