Job Description

Employment Type: Full time

Company Overview

At DICK’S Sporting Goods, we believe in how positively sports can change lives. On our team, everyone plays a critical role in creating confidence and excitement by personally equipping all athletes to achieve their dreams. We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workforce, reflecting the communities we serve. If you are ready to make a difference as part of the world’s greatest sports team, apply to join our team today!

Position Overview

Welcome to Product Management at DICK’S Sporting Goods, where we specialize in delivering retail excellence along every aspect of the customer journey. Our mission focuses on crafting intuitive, easy-to-use products that span across our business. We are looking for a new team member who can bring product-market viability ideas that inspire, innovate and deliver elevated experiences for our customers and products.

The Team

This role will live on the ecommerce team responsible for all product discovery. You’ll be focused on how customers navigate to and search for products, iterating on enhancements and new features to drive customers down the ecommerce funnel.

The Role: Product Manager II

As a Product Manager II, you will work closely with other product managers, business analysts, scrum masters, portfolio managers, product designers and software engineers to deliver products and services that align to strategic priorities as well as achieve product-market fit. You will be an active participant in the organization and deliver high-quality products through the following:

Product Strategy

• Define a roadmap for your product in collaboration with your technology peers and stakeholders within a modern development environment.
• Base your roadmap on outcomes, establishing a “voice of the product” that empathizes with your customers’ and stakeholders’ needs.
• Inform your roadmap with a prioritized product backlog.
• Proactively plan UX and discovery work well ahead of planned quarterly roadmaps.

Data-Driven Decisions

• Establish metrics and measurements for your product domain to report on value delivered.
• Use lagging and leading indicators’ performance to inform product iterations and prioritization within the roadmap.
• Make recommendations to business partners and product leadership founded in data.
• Ensure your work has a hypothesis, and every deliverable ties back to business goals.
• Familiarity with OKRs is a bonus.

Testing and Research

• Aid in the formulation of hypotheses to coordinate A/B tests, prototypes or research.
• Continually refine the product until the desired outcome is achieved.
• Work very closely with the testing team and must have crisp hypotheses and desired learnings for every feature launch and test concept.

Delivery

• Manage the backlog by creating effective user stories.
• Lead backlog prioritization and management.
• Perform testing of product features with engineers to ensure acceptance criteria is met.
• Capture bugs and work towards defect resolution.
• Communicate features going live to business partners to close the loop on a feature release.

Team Collaboration

• Actively participate in stand-ups, planning sessions, demos, and retrospectives with your team on a weekly basis.
• Work across many workstreams and be a partner with business and other product teams, as this role has many stakeholders and dependent teams.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

Strategy – How you understand and plan within a product team that solves customer problems and drives market impact

• Form Strategy & Prioritize Work:
  • Builds the roadmap, collaboratively, based on outcomes.
  • Prioritizes product features and capabilities into a product roadmap aligned to outcomes.
  • Uses decision support tools to weigh competing factors and objectives for a product.