Director of Product Management

Director of Product Management – Global Retailer

We are looking for a Director of Product & Experience as we pioneer AI-based Digital solutions.

We are seeking an experienced Product Leader to lead the vision and delivery of our portfolio of digital planning experiences for the Merchandise Planning & Inventory Management (MPIM) function.

You and your team will lead the experiences for capabilities including forecasting, sizing, allocation and inventory management.

Details of the Job

• Help drive the digital transformation for the MPIM function, with a clear product strategy across your portfolio
• Define product vision for each of your products
• Motivate and inspire your team and stakeholders to champion the product vision, goals, strategy, and benefits
• Partner with business teams to deeply understand individualized needs, and be the voice of our users to deliver the best solution against those needs
• Partner with engineering and delivery teams to ensure that concepts/features are delivered that drive our OKRs
• Partner with leaders to increase adoption of new ways of working
• Communicate progress to stakeholders, functional owners, and internal team members on program status and benefits tracking
• Support your team where they need your help (defining OKRs, prioritizing backlog, unblocking challenges, defining multiple solution concepts, data analytics to ensure your product is performing)
• Develop an understanding of supply chain processes and learn about the applications supporting those processes

About You

• Bachelor’s degree: MBA preferred
• 8+ years of experience in a Product Management role
• 5+ years of apparel / retail experience, ideally applying digital and AI within an operations function
• You have an entrepreneurial spirit, love autonomy & working in a fast-paced environment, know how to deliver, and long for the opportunity to design pioneering solutions to challenging problems.
• Experience with agile product management where a culture of experimentation and continuous delivery and discovery is promoted
• You have an understanding and passion for product and design methodologies with a strong focus on human-centered design
• Experience in conducting research to identify end user needs and gaps and demonstrated ability to translate those needs into creative and engaging output
• Able to craft compelling narratives to convey product strategy and progress to stakeholders with a strong focus on business outcomes
• Experience in working with Design systems
• Ability to perform market benchmarking on solutions out in the industry
• Experience leading and working across data, technical and business teams in a matrixed organization
• Understanding of technology concepts and effects, ability to manage trade-offs and evaluate new opportunities with all partners
• Provides clear strategic direction – organizes well, set a clear and simple course of action, stays focused on the most important priorities
• Leadership skills to influence partners driving to timely completion in an agile environment
• Executes with excellence – is action-oriented, drives for results, set clear expectations and milestones, reviews progress, acts decisively, can be counted on to meet goals
• Ability to work some flexible hours due to varying time zones and regions

You can work remote but would need to come into the SF office once per month.

Salary to $230k base + 20% bonus/ stocks / benefits.

Levi Strauss & Co.