Digital Associate Product Manager

Company Name: Kroger General Office
Position Type: Employee
FLSA Status: Exempt
 

 

Position Summary:

Support Product Management and Technology Development teams to drive execution of the customer journey in Connect and Save, Shop and Buy and Fulfill digital experiences. Partner with groups across the organization, including technology, user experience, analytics and content, to create Epics and user stories. Coordinate with product managers to prioritize and rank the backlog for development teams’ planned increments. Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion and safety.  

Essential Job Functions:

• Work with Software Component teams to define and prioritize customer user stories for developers, quality assurance (QA) and user experience (UX) teams to complete
• Collaborate with software developers to complete user interface (UI) development, testing and release planning
• Identify website and native app’s existing capabilities to determine future enhancements
• Liaison between product managers and product owners to ensure implementation of planned epics align to the acceptance criteria
• Support the digital strategy defined by product management and go-to-market goals through collaborative engagement
• Assist product managers in strategic conversations; follow up with internal and external technology partners to create detailed epics with clearly defined deliverables
• Review new features with product managers to establish priorities and rank across initiatives
• Collaborate with technical team members to size features, develop release plans and evaluate new approaches or tradeoffs
• Maintain product documentation, including near-term delivery/releases, and report to product management on progress; coordinate with product managers on where adjustments need to be made
• Assist in defining key product performance indicators and implementation processes that will enable us to gauge and measure product performance to support future product enhancements
• Utilize web metrics, customer metrics and internal operational metrics to summarize and make enhancement recommendations to the product vision to continually improve the customer experience
• Travel to attend company meetings
• Must be able to perform the essential functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation

Minimum Position Qualifications/Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, business, management or a related field
• 1 year of experience bringing customer-facing ecommerce or digital products to market
• 1 year of software development, product management or business analyst experience in a multi-channel retail or e-Commerce business with demonstrated success delivering new products and evolving products to market
• Excellent oral/written communication skills and extreme attention to detail
• Excellent time management and multi-tasking skills
• Ability to identify metrics and key performance measures and use that data to drive decisions that enhance the customer experience
• Proficient Microsoft Office skills

Desired Previous Job Experience:

• Experience using Atlassian products
• Experience with both Agile methodologies and product management principles

 

Education Level: Bachelor's Required
Required Travel: None
Required Certifications/Licenses: None
Position Type: Full-Time
 Regions: Midwest

States: Alabama; Alaska; American Samoa; Arizona; Arkansas; California; Colorado; Connecticut; Delaware; District of Columbia; Federated States of Micronesia; Florida; Georgia; Guam; Hawaii; Idaho; Illinois; Indiana; Iowa; Kansas; Kentucky; Louisiana; Maine; Marshall Islands; Maryland; Massachusetts; Michigan; Minnesota; Mississippi; Missouri; Montana; Nebraska; Nevada; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New Mexico; New York; North Carolina; North Dakota; Northern Mariana Islands; Ohio; Oklahoma; Oregon; Palau; Pennsylvania; Puerto Rico; Rhode Island; South Carolina; South Dakota; Tennessee; Texas; Utah; Vermont; Virgin Islands; Virginia; Washington; West Virginia; Wisconsin; Wyoming
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Jobs at Kroger: At Kroger, we hire people who have a passion for helping others and who want to build a relationship with our Customers. No matter what stage of your career, you can build your future at Kroger. We look for people who want more, aspire to be more and work hard to achieve their goals. Our focus on keeping the Customer first is what makes us successful. As the largest traditional grocery chain in the U.S. and one of the world's largest retailers, we employee more than 443,000 Associates across 35 states and the District of Columbia. We offer many opportunities not only in our stores, but in Manufacturing, Logistics, Marketing, Finance, Human Resources, and many other fields.

 

Company Overview
Kroger Family of Companies employs nearly 443,000 associates who serve customers in 2,796 retail food stores under a variety of in 35 states and the District of Columbia.  Kroger and its subsidiaries operate an expanding ClickList offering – a personalized, order online, pick up at the store service – in addition to 2,253 pharmacies, 787 convenience stores, 324 fine jewelry stores, 1,439 supermarket fuel centers and 38 food production plants in the United States.  Kroger is recognized as one of America’s most generous companies for its support of more than 100 Feeding America food bank partners, breast cancer research and awareness, the military and their families, and more than 145,000 community organizations including schools. Careers with The Kroger Co. and our family of companies offer competitive wages, flexible schedules, benefits and room for advancement.

 Posting Notes:  OH || Cincinnati || 1014 Vine Street || 45202 || Kroger General Office || [[mfield2]] || Digital/e-Commerce || Employee || Exempt || Full-Time || None