Senior Product Manager

**Title: Interim Senior Product Manager** **Location: Onsite Seattle \- (4 days per week \- any 4 days. 1 day remote)** **Duration: 3\+ months (Potential of extension or conversion depending on business needs)** * **Job Description:** Client’s Selling Insights team builds the reporting and intelligence layer that equips store leaders and teams to act with confidence, coach sellers, and make the day — spanning Flash reporting, Department and Employee Sales Dashboards, Space Productivity, Rack Reporting, and a Looker\-based foundation on GCP. * We are seeking an Interim Senior PM (Level 17 / PM Sr) to own product strategy and delivery for this space. This is an independent, execution\-focused role: drive the roadmap, close data governance gaps, and accelerate progress toward proactive, mobile\-first intelligence for store leaders. * **What will you own:?** Multi\-year product vision for Store Selling Insights across three horizons: reactive\-to\-reliable reporting, intelligence and Conversational Analytics, and proactive next\-best\-action. * Active delivery: Department Sales, Employee Sales, and Beauty Sales Dashboard enhancements; Tableau\-to\-Looker migration; Flash reporting improvements. * Backlog ownership: user stories and acceptance criteria across domain dependencies, sequenced by user impact, business value, and engineering effort. * Data governance: advance metric definition and BRD certification with CIA, SNS, and Insights Delivery stakeholders. * Stakeholder alignment across Insights Delivery Engineering, CIA/data team, business partners, and director/VP leadership — owning communications up and down the pyramid. * Continuity documentation to support a clean handoff to the returning PM. * **Need Someone who:** Will need to be visionary and think through longer term strategy \- Planning 1\-3 year vision. ? * Should have a good understanding of the user (store Leaders). * Should be technical – understand how dashboards are configured. * Should be able to work cross domains and with those stakeholders. * Need to have very strong communication skills \- handle tachnical discussions and uplevel it, leadership communication skills. Comfortable speaking with VPs. * **PM Sr Expectationa (Level 17 PTF):** Crafts multi\-year vision; aligns to company strategy without support; evangelizes across the org. * Drives progress and manages risks/dependencies proactively — does not wait for issues to surface or direction to be given. * Frames trade\-offs with conviction; produces documented recommendations to leadership. * Defines success criteria including go\-to\-market; coordinates across functional and domain boundaries independently. * Leads customer research; synthesizes findings into clear opportunity statements. * Sufficient technical depth to engage credibly with engineering on architecture and platform trade\-offs. * **Required:** 5\+ years of product management experience, with a demonstrated track record of owning a product domain end\-to\-end at the Senior PM level. * Experience with enterprise BI and reporting platforms, particularly Looker, and how they integrate with modern cloud data ecosystems (GCP/BigQuery strongly preferred). * Hands\-on experience driving platform migration or consolidation efforts, including legacy deprecation, user change management, and stakeholder alignment. * Strong foundational knowledge of data governance concepts: metric certification, semantic layers, data ownership models, and the distinction between data producers and consumers. * Fluency in data engineering and analytics fundamentals, SQL, data warehousing, pipeline concepts, sufficient to engage credibly with engineering on tradeoffs. * Demonstrated ability to operate independently in ambiguous, matrixed environments; proactively identify and closes gaps without waiting for direction. * Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to produce crisp, audienceappropriate artifacts for both leadership and engineering audiences. * **Product Strategy and Roadmap** Own the multi\-year vision: from today's reliable Looker reporting through intelligence and * proactive next\-best\-action capabilities. * Move a fragmented, desktop\-bound reporting environment to intelligent, device\-agnostic, * role\-based reporting, delivered in prioritized increments. * Maintain momentum on metric definition and certification work. * Be the product voice in architectural and data governance discussions. * **Delivery and Execution** Drive delivery across active initiatives and optimizations. * Write user stories and acceptance criteria across domain dependencies without support; * keep a refined backlog sequenced by user impact, business value, and engineering * effort. * Proactively identify and manage risks, cross\-team dependencies, and sequencing * tradeoffs, escalating with documented recommendations when appropriate. * Define and track success metrics for shipped features; drive root cause analysis and * roadmap adjustments based on telemetry and user feedback. * **User Research and Insights** Understand and lead discovery as needed with full user population (store leaders, * department managers, sellers, etc.), synthesizing findings independently to identify * unmet needs and prioritization signals. * **Stakeholder Alignment** Drive alignment across a complex matrix: Insights Delivery Engineering, CIA/data team, * business stakeholders, store operations, and director/VP leadership. * Own communications up and down the pyramid, from technical tradeoffs with * engineering to business impact narratives for leadership review. * **Level Expectations: PM Sr (Level 17\)** This role is calibrated to the PM Sr anchor in Nordstrom's IC Product Talent Framework. The * following expectations define the bar for this engagement: * **Collaboration and Influence** Encourages innovation across functions and domains; orchestrates planning within the * store reporting domain and across dependencies. * Influences roadmap up and down the pyramid; ensures seamless collaboration for * impactful deliveries without relying on manager direction. * Discovery and Insights * Leads customer research independently; synthesizes findings into clear opportunity * statements and prioritization inputs. * Demonstrates deep understanding of market and competitive trends in retail analytics * and BI; incorporates those signals into roadmap decisions. * **Definition \& Decomposition** Defines product scope and removes ambiguity without support; aligns stakeholders up * and down the pyramid on scope and boundaries. * Writes user stories and acceptance criteria that influence across domains; brings * sufficient technical depth to enable extensible design decisions. * Evangelizes test\-and\-learn; demonstrates product\-market fit and makes roadmap * adjustments based on measurement without management prompting. * **Drives Impact** Drives progress across the broader store reporting domain; proactively manages risks * and dependencies rather than waiting for issues to surface. * Communicates business impact without support; independently drives roadmap * adjustments based on evidence; knows when to escalate with a recommendation. * Drives progress across the broader store reporting domain; proactively manages risks * and dependencies rather than waiting for issues to surface. * Communicates business impact without support; independently drives roadmap * adjustments based on evidence; knows when to escalate with a recommendation. **Prioritization and Planning** * Balances short\-term deliverables with long\-term progress across the domain with support; aligns to business unit strategy. * Develops timeline within the product line without support; partners with engineering leadership on scope, sequencing, and sprint planning. * Defines success criteria including go\-to\-market; coordinates across functional and domain boundaries. * Frames tradeoffs with conviction in the broader context; provides documented recommendations to leadership. * **Preferred:?** Conversational analytics, agentic AI, or LLM\-powered product experience. * Retail store operations or workforce management context. * **Strategy \& Vision(Nice to Have):** Crafts a multi\-year product vision for store reporting; aligns to company strategic vision without support; evangelizes across the org. * Defines the approach within the store reporting domain; develops a multiphase strategy with clear direction; drives cross\-org alignment. * **What success looks like?:** 30 days: Clear picture of the active roadmap, open governance items, and stakeholder map. Can articulate the core user problems without prompting. * 60 days: Driving delivery meetings; backlog refined and sequenced; at least one governance item advanced. Product voice is present in architectural discussions. * 90 days: Roadmap updated and communicated to leadership. At least one enhancement shipped or in UAT. Continuity documentation underway. **Applicant Notices \& Disclaimers** * For information on benefits, equal opportunity employment, and location\-specific applicant notices, click here At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's starting pay is: $75\.00/hr.