Overview:
The Digital Innovation Product Manager works across R&D and digital product teams, connecting with product leaders, digital innovators, senior leaders and key internal and external partners to research, develop and deliver advanced digital concepts and solutions. Our client, 7-Eleven in Irving, Texas is looking for an ideal candidate who has demonstrated innovation experience and a solid understanding of modern product creation best practices and emerging trends, as well as an established track record in defining and delivering digital software.
Fundamental Elements Of R&D's Work Include
• Rapid Prototyping & Concept Development
• User Centered Design and Research
• Software Product Management
• Functional and business requirement definition
• Transition Management
• Advanced communication & storytelling
7-Eleven’s R&D team takes off on a hunch about an emerging technology, unsolved customer problem, or top priority business challenge. Then, our teams of product managers, developers, designers, and testers build, test, learn and iterate until they find solutions that solve those challenges well. They obsess over making things simple, while collaborating, ideating and refining the customer’s experience until it truly redefines convenience. They use groundbreaking advancements in technology and sustainable design to accelerate innovation. Once their idea is dialed in, they work lockstep with our Digital Product Teams, Merchandising, Design, Engineering and others across 7-Eleven to integrate and launch their innovations live to millions of customers. Helping our customers get more of the benefits they care about most, making their day better.
We are preferred supplier to 7-Eleven. This position is available for conversion to full time employment upon successful evaluation of performance. You’ll be working in a fast-paced, eclectic environment of talented professionals who are leading the industry in digital capabilities.
Responsibilities:
· Leads strategy definition for key products, technologies and pods within R&D.
· Actively looks for emerging technologies and customer/business use cases that can be better served through the application of specific emerging technologies
· Defines, drives alignment, maintains and communicates the product / concept roadmap.
· Leads the implementation proof of concepts & pilots to prove plausibility of technology innovation, including defining project scope, requirements and success metrics.
· Leads the development & implementation of key projects with technology and vendor partners; establishes strong partnerships.
· Designs and executes experiments and learning activities with real customers to observe and learn customer behaviors.
· Leads their cross-functional teams’ level of customer obsession by immersing, understanding and learning from their customers.
· Manages day-to-day relationships with stakeholders, technical teams and external development partners.
· Builds expertise with all current and future platform tools.
· Understands how stakeholders work and educates and trains on new tools and processes.
· Collaborates with partners and sponsors to drive towards process and technology change, utilizing a user-centric research process.
· Excellent oral and written communication & storytelling skills including meeting facilitation and development and delivery of persuasive presentations.
Basic Qualifications:
• Education: Bachelors/4 Yr Degree required.
• 3+ years product management experience in a digital / software ecosystem.
• 3+ years innovation & product creation experience.
• Proven experience defining and managing complex digital products / projects.
• Proven ability to document requirements and manage multiple products and projects simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to dive deep to understand business users and product technology and related landscape.
• Ability to think and act creatively, methodically and strategically.
• Superior verbal and written communication skills, with ability to communicate effectively with core team, extended stakeholders and leadership.
• Must be organized, flexible & able to act independently, with ability to switch rapidly between different projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Is forward thinking and passionate about delivering a premium and innovative solution.
• Thrives in a world of ambiguity, and is driven to make decisions as a team, without leadership input.
GOIN Technology is a technology consulting and managed services business headquartered in Dallas/Ft. Worth. The company is focused on CIO/CTO Advisory Consulting, Information Security, Digital Transformation, Software/Data Engineering, Innovation as a Service and Managed Services.