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Associate Product Development Manager
Select Comfort Corporation
Minneapolis, MN, United States
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Overview
The Associate product development manager of brand activationwill lead the collection of brand activation requirements that enable the SleepIQ product experience to come to life for our consumers in special events, in store activation and strategic partnerships. This role will support the cross-functional organization on developing the detailed requirements, locking integration points and developing and managing timelines needed to support larger organizational initiatives. Working in an agile manner to build detailed requirements and user experience definition as a business partner and SleepIQ subject matter expert to the organization. Coordinating day to day activities to drive the brand voice, activation requirements, project management and overall coordination within the SleepIQ product team as well as across the Sleep Number organization. Building upfront business cases in which each brand activation project will use to ensure that prioritization and resourcing is executed strategically up front and the final deliverable delivers the business value post launch. Brand activation activities include, but are not limited to, in store applications, strategic marketing partnerships, event activations, and in store experiences.
Responsibilities
• Work with product and brand management to develop brand activation business cases that support organizational gains that each SleepIQ product activation will require, enabling strategic decisions for what we execute and what we do not
• Support the development of cross-functional brand activation requirements that bring the SleepIQ experience to life
• Ability to understand customer and organizational needs while using data driven insights to deliver solutions
• Develop, manage and prioritize the product backlog of features and initiatives – running the daily activities and reporting back to product and brand management
• Able to define and translate customized and specialized requirements to enable the technical teams to define scalable and supportable options
• Understand the interdependencies to the SleepIQ® Technology platform – device and cloud-based software platforms
• Develop the detailed timelines; including scoping, development, validation, user acceptance testing and deployment.
• Partner with the other product owner/development leads within SleepIQ to ensure uniformity of the customer experience within the product brand activation assets
• During research and development, perform analysis and evaluation of options, alternatives of product development paths in an agile manner
• Actively resolve any open issues with new products coming to market, working cross functionally with business and supply partners
• Host and manage development stand ups to ensure work is being executed against the right priorities
• Support lab based and in field validation testing in partnership with organizational partners
• Emotional Intelligence, passion for customer advocacy, desire to become a subject matter expert on the products released
Qualifications
Experience, Education & Certifications:
• The ideal candidate will have exceptional background in product coordination & management, project management and communications
• 2-5 years’ experience; technical project/program coordination or associate management, product channel or brand associate management, product development experience are ideal
• Experience with software development across highly complex systems required
• Proven track record of bringing forth and executing projects on time and on budget
• Experience managing a connected software product platform
• Strong cross functional leadership: demonstrated ability to engage teams and external partners to generate expected results
• Ability to think both strategically and tactically in a high energy, fast paced environment
• Exceptional interpersonal, influencing, and communication (written and verbal) skills
• Excellent organizational skills – ability to prioritize – multi-task oriented
• Attention to detail – with strong critical thinking skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects - work prioritization, planning and task delegation
• Experience in working with globally dispersed teams
• Bachelor's degree in relevant field required
Knowledge, skills & abilities:
• Skilled in the Microsoft office suite and Microsoft project
• Understanding of connected cloud based product platforms
• Experience with Jira, TestRail
• Understanding of modular design concepts – both Mechanically and via Software
• User story development skills
• Product sales growth, attach rate and overall portfolio mix
• SleepIQ technology brand activation engagement and retention
• Success rates of releases – high quality
• Keeping timelines on budget, on time and meeting key deliverables
• Ability to travel 5-10% of the time
Equal Opportunity Employer
Sleep Number is an equal opportunity employer, committed to recruiting, hiring and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds, regardless of sex; race; color; creed; national origin; religion; age; marital status; pregnancy; physical, mental, communicative or sensory disability; sexual orientation; gender identity or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law.