Location: Duluth, Georgia – Hybrid – 3 days a week from office
Duration: 6 months
Competencies: 10+ years experience
Program Management
Top requirements from JD:
The mandatory skillset required is experience in leading programs in Product Experience Management in retail Store & Ecommerce, respective product development or modernization programs
Strong understanding of product data lifecycle: product onboarding, enrichment, attribution, taxonomy, PDP maintenance, UPC/SKU/WebID relationships, imagery/workflow, pricing, promotions, publishing, and downstream channel enablement.
Working knowledge of PIM/PXM platforms or product-catalog ecosystems such as STIBO STEP, Syndigo, Salsify, Akeneo, in-house PIM/PXM, DAM/CMS, marketplace, pricing, promotions, and downstream commerce systems. Proven ability to convert business requirements into roadmap, MVP scope, release plan, backlog, milestones, dependencies, RAID, and executive status reporting.
Role Description:
• Lead enterprise level large Programs in retail, ecommerce, merchandising, digital, or catalog domains.
• Experience in leading programs in Product Experience Management in retail Store Ecommerce, respective product development or modernization programs.
• Strong understanding of product data lifecycle product onboarding, enrichment, attribution, taxonomy, PDP maintenance, UPCS KUWebID relationships, imagery workflow, pricing, promotions, publishing, and downstream channel enablement.
• Proven ability to convert business requirements into roadmap, MVP scope, release plan, backlog, milestones, dependencies, RAID, and executive status reporting.
• Hands-on delivery governance across product owners, business SMEs, architects, UX, engineering, QE, data, integration, SRE, security, vendor product teams, and offshore onshore delivery teams.
• Experience managing modernization programs involving cloud-native applications, APIs, event-driven architecture, batch-to-real-time transformation, data migration, and operational dashboards. • Working knowledge of PIMPXM platforms or product-catalog ecosystems such as STIBO STEP, Syndigo, Salsify, Akeneo, in-house PIMPXM, DAMCMS, marketplace, pricing, promotions, and downstream commerce systems. • Strong Agile delivery background using ScrumSAFe, Jira, Confluence, release planning, sprint ceremonies, dependency management, and stakeholder demos. • Ability to manage high ambiguity, run workshops, drive decisions, document assumptions, and align leadership across build-vs-buy, roadmap, cost, scope, risk, and product adoption decisions.
• Considerable fluency in Java Spring Boot, microservices, GCPcloud, ReactUI modernization, Kafka PubSub, APIs, data platforms, logging monitoring, and DevSecOps concepts is required to manage technical stakeholders effectively.
• Excellent executive communication, customer-facing presentation skills, and ability to produce concise leadership updates, action plans, and proposal inputs.
• Strong stakeholder management with business leadership, product owners, architects, delivery teams, and vendor product teams.
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguity and drive outcome-based execution across multiple workstreams and dependencies.
• Excellent communication skills for executive updates, steering committee materials, status reporting, and customer-facing discussions.
• Strong risk, issue, dependency, scope, and change-control management discipline.
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams across onsiteoffshore models.
• Ability to balance delivery execution with strategic roadmap thinking and proposalbusiness case inputs.
• Strong facilitation skills for workshops, backlog grooming, release planning, milestone reviews, and decision forums.
—
