Product Manager II (Remote)

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Role Specific Information Job Description About the Team You’ll be working with Kohl’s Core Network team as part of the Infrastructure, Reliability, and Observability organization and its networking platform group. Core Network provides site connectivity, circuits, cloud access, wireless, load-balancing services, proxy services. Network Security provides firewall controls, intrusion protection and detection services, secure access server edge services and DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) Services. Together, these teams provide the network and protections to effectively and securely host Kohl’s application traffic for Stores, Corporate and EFC/DC/RDC sites. About the Role You are the product component of a cross-disciplinary product team, and will collaborate with Engineering, Design, Analytics, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to collectively evolve your product through the entire product development lifecycle. You bring business, strategy, and communication expertise to the collaboration between your product team, customers, and stakeholders to steer the prioritization of product investments. Using the principles of lean, agile, and user centered design, you lead and execute the regular activities of a product team to deliver outcomes for users and drive value for the enterprise. What You’ll Do Manage the full software development lifecycle and refine your team’s process to deliver strategic outcomes Collaborate with your group product leader to deliver on product-level strategies that enhance user outcomes and drive business value Discover, develop, and build strategies for your product's problem space while engaging stakeholders to identify opportunities Potential responsibility for multiple products/systems under one problem area Conduct continuous research to identify valuable problems, define and deliver outcomes in a complex product space, facilitate ideation sessions to prioritize solutions, and coordinate delivery with other teams Deliver user value in an area with known problems, applying principled techniques to define users, problems, and solutions 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 your product Identify functionality that no longer provides value, and safely deprecate or modernize it in line with the product vision Engage with your product group to refine and harmonize practices with other product teams, contributing to group-level practice development Additional tasks may be assigned What Skills You Have Required Experience working in the software development lifecycle and delivering a product to market Experience working on enterprise-scale platforms or products that span beyond software applications Ability to analyze data, interpret metrics, and use data to drive decision-making within a suite of products and services Strong problem-solving skills to identify user level issues, analyze potential solutions, and partner across domains to implement the best course of action Ability to communicate clearly with different stakeholders, including engineers, designers, and executives Preferred 5+ years of experience in product management working on cross-disciplinary product teams Advanced training or equivalent practical experience in Product Management, Business, MIS, Computer Science, or related fields Ability to travel 10% of the time Knowledge of or formal education in any combination of the following areas: networking, wireless, routing, switching, telecommunications circuits, Knowledge of complex application troubleshooting and performance tuning Knowledge of integration testing strategies Experience providing Network Security services (For example: firewalls, endpoint security, email security, security testing and authentication services) 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 Our purpose at Kohl's is to take care of families' realest moments. Kohl’s has been caring for families for more than 60 years, both the unique and diverse families that shop us every day and the Kohl’s family we all belong to. Caring is something that is core to who we are as a brand, and we believe that truly caring means being there for the good stuff, the bad stuff and the real stuff. Kohl’s is committed to creating a healthy and safe workplace for our associates. We seek out talent that shares our values and strive to support their journey toward fulfillment at work, at home and within our communities.

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