Role Specific Information
Job Description
About the Role
You are the Product Manager of a cross functional product team in our Enterprise Data & Analytics (EDA) organization, collaborating with Engineering, Design, Analytics, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Together you will evolve data and analytic products and services through the entire product development lifecycle. You bring business context, structured problem solving, and crisp communication to help your team focus on delivering the highest value outcomes for users.
Anchored in lean and user-centered principles, you will help the team discover real user needs, prioritize opportunities, and ship incremental value that improves trust, discoverability, and usability of EDA products. This role sits at the core of our journey toward a data native culture, supporting self-service analytics, strong governance, and reliable data operations.
What You’ll Do
Manage a balanced team of Business Intelligence and Data Engineers autonomously, delivering features that improve data discoverability, quality, governance, and decision making
Partner with your Product Leader and stakeholders to discover, define, and deliver features in service of a product strategy for a single product
Engage users and stakeholders to identify opportunities, clarify pain points, and facilitate ideation sessions to prioritize solutions
Conduct ongoing discovery to further define valuable problems and deliver features for a well defined domain area
Create backlog stories and product documentation, prioritize tasks, and coordinate feature releases to promote rapid ideation to delivery cycles
Measure impacts, solicit feedback, and make data-informed pivot or persevere decisions to improve current data discovery and decision making experiences
Actively pursue greater fluency in data acumen, business processes, discovery facilitations, and tools to successfully lead a product team in a fast paced environment
Additional related tasks and activities may be assigned
What Skills You Have
Required
Familiarity with the software development lifecycle and experience delivering production quality data products and features
Ability to analyze data, interpret metrics, and use data to drive decision-making within a single product area
Natural curiosity about data, systems, and user behavior; eager to learn and become a trusted thought partner to stakeholders and users
Exposure to data platforms and tools (GCP, Airflow, Qlik, Looker)
Strong prioritization and time-management, and problem solving skills to keep teams and workstreams on track
Strong written and verbal communication that simplifies complex information
Preferred
2+ years of experience in product management
Intermediate training or parallel experience in Product Management, Business, MIS, Computer Science, or related fields
Ability to travel 10% of the time
Essential Functions
The requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl’s may revise this job description from time to time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship.
Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the “What You’ll Do” Section
Ability to comply with dress code requirements
Basic math and reading skills, legible handwriting, and basic computer operation
Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance and meet scheduling requirements as set by the company
Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines
Ability to give direction and to receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel
Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others
Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes
Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs
Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.
Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units
Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner