Product Head - eCommerce

We are scouting for Product Head - eCommerce for one of the ecommerce giants who has retained us to fulfil its key leadership roles.

It's a great opportunity to be part of an entrepreneurial team delivering industry transforming products which will be taken globally and get dedicated time with Business Head.

Key responsibilities will include:

- Responsible for the initiation, planning, execution, and closure of a project.

- Communicate with stakeholders, gather requirements, and making sense of these requirements

- Understand business need, business capabilities, and range of available options and provide a robust justification for the proposed solutions

- Manage project schedule, cost, and resource management, while ensuring accurate requirements management

- Define the project into a set of manageable tasks, obtain appropriate resources, and build a team to perform the work

- Ensure project meets the requirements and demands of the project's key stakeholders.

- Meet with stakeholders to capture and document business requirements.

- Work closely with tech product team to help build best in class system for all relevant stakeholders

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Lead Online Product Vision for one or more functional areas (Search, Browse/Nav, Checkout, Content/Services, etc- )

- Establish and drive the product strategy and vision for specific eCommerce site focus areas across websites/brands.

- Define and manage the product roadmap and release plan for those focus areas and manage expectations with all relevant stakeholders, including the senior leadership team.

- Proactively identify gaps in the current eCommerce product offering and lead the effort to develop solutions that drive business value.

- Generate new product ideas, research/ analyze their feasibility and business impact, and then lead the implementation of those ideas

- Conduct user research and usability studies to understand how customers are interacting with the product and develop enhancements based on the results/ analysis

- Work closely with ecommerce operational teams to develop and enhance workflow processes and maximize the potential of existing product capabilities.

TRANSLATE PRODUCT VISION INTO BUSINESS RESULTS:

- Manage new product development and feature roadmap from planning to implementation by collaborating with cross-functional teams, including Technology, Engineering, Quality, Marketing, eCommerce, Customer Service, Design, Merchandising and Legal.

- Collaborate with User Experience team on wireframes and UI designs that support the product requirements.

- Communicate the product vision to the scrum team and maximize the value of each sprint and release

- Ensure a healthy level of consistency for the team in terms of direction and prioritization by ensuring the backlog is groomed and prioritized according to the overall strategy and product roadmap

- Synthesize product requirements from a variety of internal and external resources, including eCommerce team, design, engineering, qa, legal and other cross-functional teams.

- Convey product requirements by creating effective user stories, functional requirements, wireframes and/or mockups.

- Coordinate with Technology Team - Engineering and QA leads to ensure features are being built according to spec.

APPLY IF YOU HAVE-

- 10-12 years of total software/IT engineering experience. Out of this at least 7+ technical program management experience preferably with external customer facing web based software products.

- 3-5 years of Product Management Experience.

- 4+ years of progressive experience in building products or in the ecommerce product space.

- Adept in Agile development methodologies.

- Financial services/payments, ecommerce, and mobile commerce industry experience a strong plus.

- Knowledge of business analysis and requirements gathering processes

- Strong project management skills and demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple parties to deliver a product.

- Strong product management experience in reporting, big data, mobile, or payments responsible for value proposition definition and communications, product differentiation, cost/benefit analysis, and executive presentations.

- Creative spark - in product innovation, product management, and finding ways to get things done.

- Demonstrated strength at building relationships, highly motivated, strong sense of urgency, ability to motivate others.

- Excellent written and oral communication skills with a flair for getting people excited

- Strong desire and aptitude to be very hands-on with data and reporting.

- Team player, with proven track record of taking initiative and ownership of responsibilities and deliverables.

- Direct work experience in project management capacity, specifically agile

- Direct work experience in web, ecommerce and/or software development projects

- Proven experience in people management

- Proven experience in strategic planning, risk management and project management software