[Hiring] Product Manager I @KDS Kohl's, Inc.

Role Description

You are the Product Manager of a cross functional product team in our Enterprise Data & Analytics (EDA) organization, collaborating with Engineering, Design, Analytics, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Together you will evolve data and analytic products and services through the entire product development lifecycle. You bring business context, structured problem solving, and crisp communication to help your team focus on delivering the highest value outcomes for users. Anchored in lean and user-centered principles, you will help the team discover real user needs, prioritize opportunities, and ship incremental value that improves trust, discoverability, and usability of EDA products. This role sits at the core of our journey toward a data native culture, supporting self-service analytics, strong governance, and reliable data operations.

• Manage a balanced team of Business Intelligence and Data Engineers autonomously, delivering features that improve data discoverability, quality, governance, and decision making
• Partner with your Product Leader and stakeholders to discover, define, and deliver features in service of a product strategy for a single product
• Engage users and stakeholders to identify opportunities, clarify pain points, and facilitate ideation sessions to prioritize solutions
• Conduct ongoing discovery to further define valuable problems and deliver features for a well defined domain area
• Create backlog stories and product documentation, prioritize tasks, and coordinate feature releases to promote rapid ideation to delivery cycles
• Measure impacts, solicit feedback, and make data-informed pivot or persevere decisions to improve current data discovery and decision making experiences
• Actively pursue greater fluency in data acumen, business processes, discovery facilitations, and tools to successfully lead a product team in a fast paced environment
• Additional related tasks and activities may be assigned

Qualifications

• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle and experience delivering production quality data products and features
• Ability to analyze data, interpret metrics, and use data to drive decision-making within a single product area
• Natural curiosity about data, systems, and user behavior; eager to learn and become a trusted thought partner to stakeholders and users
• Exposure to data platforms and tools (GCP, Airflow, Qlik, Looker)
• Strong prioritization and time-management, and problem solving skills to keep teams and workstreams on track
• Strong written and verbal communication that simplifies complex information

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in product management (preferred)
• Intermediate training or parallel experience in Product Management, Business, MIS, Computer Science, or related fields (preferred)
• Ability to travel 10% of the time

Essential Functions

• Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the “What You’ll Do” Section
• Ability to comply with dress code requirements
• Basic math and reading skills, legible handwriting, and basic computer operation
• Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance and meet scheduling requirements as set by the company
• Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines
• Ability to give direction and to receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel
• Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others
• Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes
• Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs
• Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.
• Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units
• Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner

Benefits

• Our purpose at Kohl's is to take care of families' realest moments.
• Kohl’s has been caring for families for more than 60 years, both the unique and diverse families that shop us every day and the Kohl’s family we all belong to.
• Caring is something that is core to who we are as a brand, and we believe that truly caring means being there for the good stuff, the bad stuff and the real stuff.
• Kohl’s is committed to creating a healthy and safe workplace for our associates.
• We seek out talent that shares our values and strive to support their journey toward fulfillment at work, at home and within our communities.