Sr. Digital Product Manager - Plan to Goal

What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

SGWS Digital Product Leaders work closely with counterparts in design, data, engineering, and agile orchestration to maximize the value we create for users and the enterprise. Plan to Goal (PTG) Digital Product Leaders focus on the development of products built to serve the unique needs of Southern Glazers commercial leaders and trade development professionals. This is an individual contributor and leadership role, which involves collaboration with teams across the enterprise. Digital Product Leaders play a crucial role in driving the organization's digital product excellence, requiring a profound grasp of digital technologies, agile methodologies, strong team management, and a forward-thinking strategic vision. This role reports to a VP, Senior Product Group Manager, who is responsible for alignment across product teams within the product group. 

Primary Responsibilities

• Define and own the overall strategy and roadmap for select digital products and features, enabling Southern Glazer’s commercial planning and execution.
• Work extremely closely with the product team as their peer and co-leader, along with fellow leaders from design, data, engineering, and agile orchestration.
• Drive a culture of self-reliance, achievement, and pride in work product throughout the product team. 
• Drive the highest possible adoption of digital capabilities through prioritizing and managing the development of product features and functionalities based on business value, user feedback, and internal needs. 
• Oversee user problem identification and opportunity discovery, solution concepting and user validation, user story writing, feature development, and user acceptance testing. 
• Run pilots, proving business value and viability, creating buy-in to invest in the products. 
• Conduct and oversee regular user testing sessions to gather feedback and insights.

Additional Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with fellow Product Leaders and Digital Leaders to align on product vision, user needs, and design implementations. 
• Work in tandem with internal teams to ensure overarching digital strategies are complemented by effective user experiences. 
• Focus on outcome and seamless user experiences over any specific technology; Driving tech-agnostic solutions  
• Manage and optimize product success and achievements via Agile ways of working and rigorous prioritization 
• Navigate the organization to remove obstacles for the product teams 
• Partner with development teams to ensure design fidelity and function from concept to completion. 
• Continually practice a shift in mindset from “requirements” to continuous improvement of the problem’s solution. 
• Accountable for measurable outcomes that ladder up to company objectives and business results.

Minimum Qualifications

• 6+ years in digital product management, focused on end-user applications, with a demonstrated ability to manage high visibility products, to interface with senior leadership, and to ensure alignment with the organization's goals.  
• Experience with user experience (UX) and user interface design principles. 
• Ability to transform user feedback into strategic design direction. 
• Skilled in assessing and iterating digital products based on user feedback and testing. 
• Strong analytical thinking with an emphasis on user experience. 
• Experience working in a federated model with product teams use of digital and data platforms across proprietary data, software, and commercially off the shelf software as part of the enterprise architecture standards. 
• Effective communicator, especially in translating complex design ideas to non-design stakeholders. 
• Collaborative mindset with a focus on cross-functional partnerships. 

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
• Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.