Product Manager 2 - Point of Sale Systems (Hybrid - Seattle)

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About Our Team

The POS+ team is transforming how Nordstrom processes customer transactions, with a focus on flexibility, reliability, and customer data utilization. We value collaboration, clear communication, and thoughtful decision-making. We're retiring legacy systems while building modern platform capabilities—work that requires both operational discipline and innovative thinking.

About the Role

Join Nordstrom's POS+ transformation team as a Product Manager 2, where you'll play a critical role in both sustaining our current customer transaction experience and building the future of retail technology. This role offers a unique opportunity to balance operational excellence with strategic innovation—maintaining system compliance while driving next-generation platform capabilities that will power Nordstrom's in-store experience through 2026 and beyond.

What You'll Do

Platform Innovation & Strategic Development (75%)

Offline Capabilities & Android Migration

• Lead product development for offline transaction capabilities on Android platforms, enabling seamless customer experiences regardless of connectivity
• Define software requirements for new hardware rollout in 2026
• Partner with engineering to ensure robust data synchronization and conflict resolution strategies

Payment Terminal Integration

• Drive integration strategy for new payment terminal technologies
• Ensure compliance with payment industry standards (PCI-DSS) while improving customer and associate experiences

Customer-Facing Display Framework

• Build the foundational framework to connect transaction data to customer-facing displays at the POS
• Define data models and API specifications that enable rich customer engagement during checkout
• Collaborate with UX and engineering to create flexible, scalable solutions for future display innovations

Legacy System Stewardship (25%)

Compliance & Risk Management

• Maintain system compliance with evolving regulatory requirements and industry standards
• Proactively identify and address technical debt that could impact business operations
• Partner with Legal, Security, and Compliance teams to ensure seamless updates

Request Evaluation & Prioritization

• Critically evaluate all incoming requests for new functionality on legacy systems
• Assess business value against cost and risk, making clear trade-off recommendations
• Communicate decisions effectively to stakeholders, guiding them toward POS+ solutions when appropriate

What You'll Bring

Collaboration and Influence

• Encourages innovation within the squad, contributing ideas and facilitating planning sessions
• Evangelizes the product and influences strategic roadmap decisions within the POS domain and with key stakeholders
• Takes an active role in coordinating collaborative efforts for product delivery across engineering, UX, and business partners
• Builds strong cross-functional relationships rooted in deep understanding of customer needs

Continuous Discovery and Insights

• Uses data-backed insights to influence stakeholders and align organizational efforts with customer needs
• Translates insights into opportunities, strategically aligning customer needs with business objectives

Definition and Decomposition

• Understands boundaries and role of products within the broader POS+ ecosystem, redefining as needed
• Breaks down roadmaps into releasable features, owning prioritization and sequencing to support strategic goals
• Writes complete user stories and acceptance criteria within the product area
• Works with engineering and business to optimize between customer value and technical effort/complexity/risk
• Designs measurement plans and exercises a "test and learn" mentality, adjusting products based on learnings

Drives Impact

• Drives progress against deliverables, engaging leadership to manage risks and dependencies to achieve outcomes
• Determines testing strategy and acceptance criteria requirements
• Engages cross-functionally to ensure incidents are appropriately triaged and addressed, communicating impacts across the business
• Integrates repeatable measurement into data-driven decision making to drive roadmap adjustments based on learnings

Prioritization and Planning

• Prioritizes product roadmap to optimize impact and balance deliverables with multiple stakeholders
• Prioritizes feature backlog, accounting for complexity, impact, and cohesion with organizational strategy
• Develops feature timeline and sequencing plans considering technical and operational constraints
• Frames tradeoff decisions about which features or backlog items to deliver
• Leads or escalates discussions to resolve disagreements and provides critical facts to gain alignment

Strategy and Vision

• Contributes to product vision, articulating product purpose and ensuring alignment to POS+ strategic vision
• Articulates the product's value proposition and evangelizes vision with squad and key stakeholders
• Shapes the approach to deliver to the product vision, developing short-term plans to impact success metrics
• Drives alignment on strategy with the squad and key stakeholders

Domain Experience (Preferred)

• 3-5 years of product management experience, preferably in retail technology, payments, or platform services
• Understanding of payment systems, compliance requirements (PCI-DSS), and industry standards
• Familiarity with mobile platforms (Android preferred) and offline-first application patterns
• Comfort working with APIs, data integration patterns, and platform architectures

Why This Role Matters

You'll be instrumental in Nordstrom's technology transformation, directly impacting millions of customer transactions. This role offers:

• Strategic Impact: Shape the platform that powers Nordstrom's in-store experience
• Technical Growth: Work at the intersection of payments, mobile platforms, and retail operations
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with engineering, UX, operations, and business leaders
• Transformation Experience: Participate in meaningful legacy system retirement and platform modernization
• Innovation Opportunity: Build frameworks that will enable customer experiences we haven't even imagined yet

We’ve got you covered…

Our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:

• Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away

• Life Insurance and Disability

• Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

A few more important points...

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