Product Manager

About the role

The Home Depot is hiring a Product Manager in Pennant Park. The Product Manager delivers business value to drive sales, improve efficiency and improve customer satisfaction by producing quality products within a designated enterprise product line. The role works closely with developers, designers and business partners, supports in-depth business reviews, communicates and presents across all levels of the organization and supports cross-functional product teams.

Key responsibilities

• Strategy and planning (about 40%): understand customer and associate needs, turn business goals and end-user needs into product strategy, set goals, metrics and analytics, run end-user research to define user stories and MVP, partner with Finance on business plans, monitor the competitive landscape and recommend the best solutions
• Delivery and execution (about 30%): align the product with priorities, document and review quality and change control standards, formulate and test hypotheses, create, prioritize and accept user stories, make daily product decisions, take part in standups, iteration planning, demos and retrospectives, and explain technical concepts simply to stakeholders
• People (about 30%): foster collaboration with Engineering and UX Designers, advocate for modern software development practices, act as the domain expert for users and stakeholders, manage expectations of the cross-functional team and communicate the long-term product strategy clearly

Required profile

• Age 18 or older and legally permitted to work in the United States
• High school diploma or GED
• Preferred: 1-3 years of relevant experience, including as a Product Manager in a modern software development environment
• Preferred: experience in a fast-paced environment where priorities shift regularly, and with cross-functional teams
• Preferred: experience creating and prioritizing user stories, conducting user research and testing, and doing competitive research
• Travel of less than 10% overnight; mostly sitting indoors with occasional movement

Required skills

• Modern software product management practices and agile methodologies, including XP principles such as paired programming, test-driven development and continuous deployment
• User research and testing
• Creating, prioritizing and accepting user stories
• Competitive research and analysis