Sr. Product Manager

Senior Manager, Digital Products

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Dollar General Corporation has been delivering value to shoppers for more than 80 years. Dollar General helps shoppers Save time. Save money. Every day.® by offering products that are frequently used and replenished, such as food, snacks, health and beauty aids, cleaning supplies, basic apparel, housewares and seasonal items at everyday low prices in convenient neighborhood locations.

Job Details

General Summary:

The Senior Manager, Digital Products leads the development of digital experiences across mobile apps, web channels, and third-party platforms for Dollar General. The role blends strategic planning with product and program management to drive major digital initiatives and elevate the customer shopping experience.

This position guides cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, seamless, and impactful digital solutions. It involves organizing resources effectively, influencing change across the digital ecosystem, and ensuring that product direction aligns with business priorities.

The role is responsible for defining product vision and strategy, shaping user experience requirements, outlining business and technical needs for engineering teams, managing scope across stakeholders, and presenting product strategy and performance to leadership.

Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Define product vision and strategy: develop a strong understanding of the product and the stakeholder's priorities. Define the desired outcomes and goals of each new initiative and communicate them to all project stakeholders across business and IT.
2. Define all user experience requirements and work closely with the UX and UI team members to help transform those requirements into a tangible product and experience that our customers love.
3. Define and communicate all business requirements for the engineering teams including our backend services groups, as well as our front-end app and web teams. Define and document success measures to provide engineering teams with the context they need to design and deliver solutions.
4. Negotiate scope and communicate changes to the initiatives you own across all internal and external partners.
5. Present product strategy and performance to key stakeholders and executives when needed.

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate product strategy, project outcomes, requirements, and change across all levels of the organization
• Experience creating and building product roadmaps, negotiating scope without sacrificing outcomes, writing requirements for engineering teams.
• Experience leveraging analytics tools to report on product performance and identify opportunities for improvement
• Proven ability to deliver programs through complex cross-functional teams

Excellent communication, influencing and relationship building skills, and experience working with senior management

Experience managing cross-functionally, and ability to adapt personal style to different environments

Strong strategic, prioritization and critical thinking skills; ability to see the "big picture" (across programs) while also diving into details

Creative decision maker with proven ability to apply rigor to tradeoff decisions

Solid program planning skills with proven ability to structure large initiatives in effective and meaningful ways

Clear, concise and influential communication style that compels to action

Proactive desire to own and drive initiatives forward through measurable process, planning and team engagement

Comfortable working in a very fast-paced, results-oriented environment. Ability to work under tight time constraints. Can multitask with ease and adapt to frequently changing priorities.

Strong project management skills and ability to present work to executive stakeholders

Retail experience a plus

Work Experience and/or Education:

• BA/BS degree required or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in product/program management or related function; digital and Search experience required
• Prior experience working with multiple cross-functional Scrum teams required.
• Strong analytical skills and data driven mindset are required. Experience writing simple SQL queries required
• Demonstrated experience with building, launching and optimizing Search and Discovery products required.
• Demonstrated experience with measuring Search relevancy and ranking
• Experience with Large language model development, including data collection and pre/post-training, inference, evaluations preferred