Lead Product Manager - Innovation

Job Description
Your Impact:
The Lead Product Manager owns the vision and strategy, roadmap, and feature definition for large, cross-functional, and/or highly complex products that often span multiple product groups. Responsibilities include defining the roadmap as well as planning and managing products and product features through the product development process. This role manages the product backlogs for one or more product groups while prioritizing work and making product-related decisions based on the needs and expectations of customers and stakeholders. This role identifies and manages projects with a high level of autonomy. The Lead Product Manager manages multiple product designs at any given time while partnering closely with the business to understand challenges and develop the go-to-market strategy.
In this position, you will focus on the development and delivery of Retail Digital Twin applications tailored for enterprise users, ensuring innovative solutions that drive efficiency, productivity, and insight-driven decision-making within retail operations.
What you will do:
Drives and is responsible for the success of Retail Digital Twin applications through the product lifecycle. Sets the standard across the enterprise for building usable, viable, and feasible products. Drives a continuous improvement culture. Identifies and implements opportunities to improve the team and culture.
Frames the product vision and direction qualitatively for Retail Digital Twin applications under their domain along with the product team. Defines the long-term plan of the product and objectives and key results (OKRs). Works with business partners to obtain buy-in.
Creates and delivers a quarterly product roadmap with high-level milestones in partnership with the product team. Contributes rounded internal/external inputs to guide measures of product success. Owns and drives the product plans. Leverages data from multiple sources to negotiate alignment and timing for cross-domain dependencies to achieve expected value.
Owns and leads journey-mapping conversations across domains to drive clarity in product separation while maintaining holistic workflows for the end users. May impact cross-domain journey mapping/user experience.
Monitors macro and micro technology trends related to digital twins, 3D modeling, and enterprise retail applications to ensure the company's leadership position in innovation and market presence.
Drives innovation to accelerate product roadmaps and reusability across products within the domain.
Experiments to ensure user adoption before making large investments in product build.
Leads a product group in cross-functional execution and delivery of a product or group of products. Works autonomously on a large or complicated product. Serves as an expert in a product domain across the company and sets the benchmark for delivering quality products. Builds cross-functional roadmaps focused on delivering user value across the enterprise.
Drives prioritization cross-functionally and communicates how user value is being delivered according to the roadmap. Aligns with partners to achieve the value of the product or business case.
Influences the strategic direction of a significant product or suite of products. Influences engineering priorities of the product space. Acts as a key influencer across the portfolio.
Uses product marketing to drive deep understanding of the product owned with peers and leaders. Works with stakeholders to develop product market fit strategies.
Defines objectives and data required for analytics needed either independently or in conjunction with business partners for their product and how it relates to the product portfolio. Partners with engineering to build tracking/monitoring needed to get the data.
Develops functional and technical OKRs/metrics and creates corresponding data/analytics to track the health and business impact. Defines key metrics of the product and practices routines to consistently monitor the health of the product.
Leverages data to determine trends and opportunities within the assigned product. Interacts with competitive products and evaluates industry trends to set product plans and priorities to ensure the product is at or above industry norms.
Required Qualifications:
7 years of experience in two or more of the following: project management, product management, business analysis, program management, experimentation, or product marketing
5 years of experience in product and/or experience management
Experience in an agile software environment with proficiency in product marketing and strong writing ability
Experience working cross-functionally in a large organization with senior leadership
Experience translating data into quantifiable actions/deliverables
Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, engineering, communications, or a related field (or equivalent work experience in lieu of a degree)
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience providing guidance and direction to cross-functional resources
CSPO Certification
Master's degree in business administration or a similar advanced degree
About Lowe's:
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2023 sales of more than $86 billion, Lowe's operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
Associate Benefits ( https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/joining-our-team )

• Working at one of the largest retail companies has its perks. We offer exceptional benefits and wellness programs for eligible full-time and part-time associates, tailored for many different lifestyles. Our benefits range from health, vision and dental insurance to paid vacation, tuition assistance and parental and family-building benefits. Plus, we offer learning and development opportunities to help our associates grow their skills and achieve their goals.
• Health, Dental and Vision insurance
• Life and Disability insurance
• Paid time off based on role, tenure, and locality, including vacation, holidays, sick and volunteer time
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts
• 401(k) Retirement account with company match
• Employee Assistance Program with concierge, work/life services and no-cost counseling for all kinds of needs
• Education support programs, including tuition assistance and trade skills scholarships
• Business Travel Accident insurance
• Maternity and Parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Lowe's Associate Discount and broad discount platform
• Other discretionary benefits (based on eligibility) include annual bonuses, enrollment in Lowe's Employee Stock Purchase Plan and/or deferred compensation plan, and grant awards

Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.