Product Owner Retail

Retail Product Owner

Stand Out For Good, Inc. is a rapidly growing women's fashion company with 5 unique brands, in 130+ locations, across 38 states. Our stores feel like a sanctuary - a place of beauty from the inside out. From welcoming experiences and warm associates to thoughtfully curated products, our brands are built upon the founding principles of giving back and making a difference in the world.

Our Mission

"Stand Out. For Good". Those four words are more than just our motto, they are why we exist. From Mission Mondays, where 10% of our net proceeds go directly to local charitable organizations, to our long-standing partnership with Coprodeli USA, in which we are in the process of building 22 schools for impoverished communities in Peru, we are committed to giving back in meaningful ways to those in need.

The Role

The Retail Product Owner is a member of the IT Development Team and has accountability for the technology landscape within all Stand Out For Good store concepts. Primary responsibilities will be focused on executing on the roadmap, ensuring SOFG is leveraging the capabilities of the technology, driving innovation, and ensuring the overall user experience is aligned and integrated with the IT and business strategy and requirements. The scope for this role includes all technology within the four walls of the store including POS, RFID, SFS, BOPIS, traffic counters and camera systems.

Primary Responsibilities

• Responsible for defining and owning Retail capabilities in alignment with business partners and IT strategies
• Responsible for mapping end-to-end business processes to solution capabilities across COEs and coordinating with peer Product Owners
• Owns and maintains a capability catalog for the Retail Technology Capability Group
• Executes against the IT and Retail Roadmap aligned to business objectives and IT strategies
• Proactively communicates the capability roadmap and IT strategies to all key stakeholders, and other IT CoE's
• Accountable to facilitate solution design & drive delivery (cost, schedule, scope), including mitigation of risks and issues, to be aligned with business objectives
• Manages solutions, continuous improvement, and capability development alignment with overall IT strategies for the Retail Technology Capability Group
• Validates that the solution design meets the business objectives
• Delivers with a focus on enhancing the customer experience
• Maximizes the value of tools and applications available to deliver business value continually looking for opportunities for improvements
• Owns day to day Retail Technology vendor relationships and builds strong partnerships. Is able to manage multiple vendor relationships to ensure the best performance and financial return.
• Stays current with vendor product roadmaps, industry best practices, and impact to Altar'd State's technology landscape
• Manage supportability of solutions including integrity of upgrade path
• Collaborates across CoE's to support alignment, prioritization, planning, dependencies, resource allocation and prioritization
• Operates with an All For One approach to achieving priorities
• Maintains current knowledge of industry best practices, emerging and new innovation within the Retail Technology Space. Has the ability to apply these in the service of the company's key business goals.
• Develop and leverage strong vendor partnerships, with approved vendors, in alignment with IT objectives

Qualifications

• 3 or more years of Product Ownership experience in Retail Technology solution delivery, leading technical teams/vendors and achieving timely and effective results through others, both internal and external to the organization.
• Able to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders, communicate the IT vision and strategy, and build consensus around key initiatives and projects.
• Able to communicate and work collaboratively with diverse leaders, across all levels of the organization, and build consensus around key initiatives and projects.
• Possesses interpersonal and communication skills, both oral and written; able to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable with ambiguity; can handle the unexpected with flexibility.
• A team player who favors collaborative approaches when working with internal and external partners.
• Proven ability to build trust with others through a commitment to the highest ethical and professional standards.
• Knowledge of Retail Technology solutions; able to select and integrate the most appropriate technologies to support the business.
• Demonstrated ability to design and implement comprehensive solutions
• Outstanding organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Display professionalism and good judgment.
• The delivery role includes the required skills - budgeting, scheduling, and vendor management.
• Bachelor's degree required; technology disciplines preferred.

Stand Out For Good, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. All employment decisions are decided on the basis of qualification, merit and business need. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

We are proud to share that our associates have made us one of Fortune's Best Companies to Work For! Recently, our team has received the following recognition:

• #73 in Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® 2023
• #4 in Fortune Best Workplaces in Retail™ 2022
• #93 in Best Workplaces for Millennials™ 2023
• #34 in Fortune Best Workplaces for Women™ 2022