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Job Summary

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.

The individual in this role identifies and manages projects with a high level of autonomy. He/she manages multiple product designs at any given time while partnering closely with the business to understand pain points and develop the go-to-market strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the success of a product or suite of products (incubate, invest, maintain, sunset).

• Frame the North Star qualitatively for each product under their domain. Defines the long-term plan of the product, and the 'O' of the OKRs. Obtains buy-in from business partners.

• Finalize the KRs to the North Star along with the product team, and work with business partners to obtain buy-in

• Work with the product team to come up with value delivered periodically with high-level milestones via a quarterly product roadmap

• Own and lead 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

• Understand and action both macro and micro technology trends within a given space to ensure Lowe’s maintains its leader position at the brand level

• Have brand impact external to Lowe’s

• Pioneer innovation to accelerate roadmaps and reusable components

• Work autonomously on a large or complicated product

• Be recognized across the company as an expert in a product domain

• Experiment to ensure user adoption before making large investments in product build

• Lead a product group in the cross-functional execution and delivery of a product or group of products

• Build cross-functional roadmaps focused on delivering user value across the enterprise

• Set the benchmark for delivering quality products

• Expert in driving prioritization cross-functionally and communicating how user value is being delivered according to the roadmap

• Drive a continuous improvement culture

• Sets the standard across the enterprise for building usable, viable, and feasible products

• Influence the strategic direction of a significant product or suite of product(s).

• Influence engineering priorities of the product space

• Be accountable for aligning with partners to achieve the value of the product or business case

• Bring rounded internal/external inputs to guide measures of product success

• Be a model for building great stakeholder relationships and take the lead in managing expectations for the product

• Demonstrate proficiency in product marketing and uses it to drive a deep understanding of the product they own with peers and leaders

• Own and drive the product plans. Leverage data from multiple sources to negotiate alignment and timing for cross-domain dependencies to achieve expected value which includes functional and technical considerations; the primary focus being the product.

• Tell the story so peers and the scrum team can continually learn and improve

• Identify and implement opportunities to improve team and culture

• Act as a key influencer across the portfolio

• Define 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

• Develop OKRs/metrics and create corresponding data/analytics to track the health and business impact, this includes functional and technical OKRs/Metrics.

• Define key metrics of the product and practices routines to consistently monitor the health of the product

• Leverage the data to determine trends and opportunities within their product

• Partner with engineering to build tracking/monitoring needed to get to the data

• Interacts with competitive products and evaluates industry trends to set product plans and priorities to ensure the product is at or above the industry norm

• Works with stakeholders to develop product market fit strategies

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Engineering, Communications, or a related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)

• 7 years of experience in two or more of the following: project management, product management, business analysis, program management, or product marketing

• 5 years of experience in product and/or experience management

• Strong writing ability

• Experience in an agile software environment

• Experience working cross-functionally in a large organization

• Experience working closely with senior leadership

• Experience translating data into quantifiable actions/deliverables

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Business Administration or similar advanced degree

• CSPO Certification

• Experience collaborating closely with senior leadership

• Experience providing guidance and direction to cross-functional resources

About Lowe’s

Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 17 million customer transactions a week in the U.S. With total fiscal year 2022 sales of over $97 billion, approximately $92 billion of sales were generated in the U.S., where 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.

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.

Pay Range for CA, CO, HI, NJ, NY, WA: $111,600.00 - $212,000.00 annually Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits.