This role leads the horizontal services teams supporting the Next Gen Point of Sale program, setting team strategy in alignment with the overall program direction. The role partners closely with business owners and cross‑functional teams to deliver desired business outcomes while providing ongoing coaching, guidance, and support to direct reports.

Lead a small group of Product Managers and/or Associate Product Managers within a given domain. Drive the strategy for that domain, teaching, guiding, setting objectives and key results (OKRs), and ensuring that the OKRs are achieved. Demonstrate the company's core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

Minimum

• Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Business, Management or equivalent practical experience
• Any experience leading and managing a team with direct and indirect reports
• 5+ years of software development or product management experience with demonstrated success delivering new products and experiences to market
• Exceptional communication, organization, and analytical skills
• Ability to identify metrics and key performance measures and use data to drive decisions which enhance the customer experience
• Demonstrated experience creating and using strategy to solve complex problems

Desired

• 3+ years of e Commerce experience at a retailer with brick and mortar stores

• Any experience using Atlassian products

• Any experience with iterative product development (Agile)

• Strong collaboration and communication skills

• Self motivated

• Strong problem solving skills

• Experience leading people in a corporate development environment

• Experience in supporting retail sales solutions a plus

• Partner with stakeholders and consumer insights to develop product vision, identify capabilities aligned to company strategy and go-to market plans, communicate and create alignment with stakeholders including company officers and senior management

• Create requirements and future enhancements roadmap to support plans to meet OKRs, deliver differentiated personalized experiences, and increase engagement

• Create highly collaborative working environments partnering with Merchandising, Retail Operations, Key Retailing, Divisions, Marketing, Creative Services, Media Services, 84.51, and Kroger Technology & Digital

• Model Agile principles to increase speed and frequency of delivery by maintaining and communicating groomed backlog, providing 1-N prioritization for backlog and set criteria for Minimum Viable Product

• Provide leadership direction to direct and matrixed core team members, incorporating feedback from across all functions within product strategy and roadmap

• Create, maintain and communicate product roadmaps including near-term delivery/releases and 1-2 year product evolution

• Define product strategy, features and criteria for evaluating vendors/partners to make ongoing buy-build or partner decisions

• Identify opportunities to create best-in-class capabilities leveraging customer & user feedback, team knowledge and expertise, and connecting to company strengths and resources

• Develop the plan and deliver breakthrough experiences to market working with technical and non-technical partners

• Measure, improve and continuously deliver to production

• Travel to work locations to attend company meetings

• Travel to interview/observe the users and/or customers

• Supervise and coach direct reports in the performance of their duties; complete performance reviews and provides feedback to direct reports

• Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation