Lead Product Manager- Data Platforms (P2507)

The Data Platform team at 84.51° and Kroger is seeking a Lead Product Manager for Asynchronous File Movement product space. This role will lead the file movement strategy, aligning capabilities governing enterprise‑wide data movement that collectively moves hundreds of thousands of files each month across our data ecosystems at 84.51˚ and Kroger.

The Lead Product Manager will own outcomes (not outputs) by defining the right problems, validating solutions with users, and delivering measurable value—balancing time‑to‑value, cost, reliability, security, compliance, and long‑term strategic impact to ensure product direction aligns with business priorities and cross‑organizational goals.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Shape long‑term product vision, connecting platform capabilities to broader business objectives while ensuring alignment across user needs and strategy is understood, supported, and executable.
• Maintains a 12-month delivery roadmap that clearly articulates how the work progresses strategic outcomes and integrates business priorities, user research/needs, and cross functional dependencies.
• Translate business goals, user needs, and technical constraints into product requirements and acceptance criteria with clear definitions of done and crisp functional & nonfunctional requirements.
• Partner with the Data Program leadership, as well as engineering and data science leads, to plan quarters/cycles/sprints and ensure efficient, predictable delivery.
• Own, define, and evolve core data platform file movement capabilities, including:
  • Fast, asynchronous data movement with smooth ingestion, built in observability and data quality checks.
  • Asynchronous and self-service file movement in and out of our four walls, between applications, data platforms, and cloud tenants across the 84.51˚ and Kroger enterprise.
• Monitors leading and lagging indicators for product health: adoption/activation/engagement, reliability & operability.
• Tracks user sentiment via industry standard metrics (such as SUS or NPS); using insights to influence product strategy, vision, and priorities.
• Maintain a customer panel and map key stakeholders (architecture, governance, security/privacy, finance, operations, vendors).
• Build and maintain a strong cross functional communication plan ensuring alignment between users, Kroger, 84.51°, vendors, and adjacent product teams.
• Maintain core product artifacts such as vision one‑pager; strategy brief; metrics tree/OKRs, operational readiness checklist (monitoring, alerts, runbooks, support model), etc.
• Analyze product usage and operational data to inform prioritization, measure value, and guide iteration
• Drive adoption across internal teams through documentation, enablement, demos, and feedback loops; remove friction points and champion best practice.

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United Stated and with the Kroger Family of Companies (i.e. H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).

QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE:

• Professional experience leading product strategy for internal, enterprise-level data platform capabilities.
• Professional experience managing highly technical development teams in an agile environment.
• Professional experience aligning and influencing cross-functional teams across organizational boundaries to ensure seamless execution beyond your immediate scrum team.
• Capable of evangelizing product purpose, strategic impact, and customer value with executive-ready narratives; user enablement; visible decision records, etc.
• Skilled in managing technical tradeoffs (scale, reliability, latency, data contracts, data quality, isolation, and FinOps/cost requirements) against long term plan and strategy.
• General technical acumen, able to efficiently converse with software engineers, data engineers, and, data scientists to understand their development processes.
• Skilled in managing end-to-end software product development.
• Skilled in problem solving, analytic thinking, and creativity.
• Skilled in planning, organization, and verbal/written business communication.
• Skilled in maintaining a positive leader persona in ambiguous and changing environments.
• Skilled in quickly flexing between technical and business stakeholder conversations, adapting to a variety of audiences.
• Demonstrated excellence as a teammate and leader.
• 4-6 years relevant experience
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or higher or equivalent professional experience.

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