Principal Product Manager - Commerce Data & Integration

You Will:

• Incorporate industry trends and best practices to data design.  Reconcile our product data definitions to meet industry standards, allow for attribute inheritance and flexible configurations 
• Synthesize and adapt Minted’s product taxonomies for both user-facing navigation and order fulfillment.  Taxonomies must support multiple product types including art, stationery, wedding invitations, and digital products.   
• Introduce the latest best practices in leveraging AI to generate structured taxonomy or integrate with 3rd party services.  
• Develop a keen understanding of Minted’s current and future product needs, user experience and use case in order to define a data strategy
• Work with multiple product, functional and fulfillment partners to document these use cases including search, browse, recommendations, reporting, pricing, promotions, bundles, etc.   
• Evaluate planned and potential 3rd party vendor integrations to inform data strategy.   
• Develop and execute a phased roadmap for executing the evolution of our product data and integration into use cases and 3rd party systems. Build and manage cross-functional project plans that coordinate all work streams engineering project completion and enable milestone launches 
• Coordinate with other product managers, designers, merchants and stakeholders to ensure that the data structure can power a cohesive overall user experience and internal operations
• Drive product development execution including project kickoffs, daily scrums, sprint planning, maintaining product specs and backlog, and coordinating development and QA activities. 
• Define, monitor, and report on key success metrics for engagement and uptake of newly launched products
• Support, triage and prioritize bugs and production issues related to the phased release of the new data architecture into our system and 3rd party systems.

You Are:

• A strategic, consumer-centric thinker.  You have a variety of experiences designing product taxonomies, managing and adapting product meta data and integrating with 3rd party systems.   
• Results oriented.  You are most comfortable in work environments which are outcome-oriented and merit-based, and are highly motivated by goal accomplishment in the face of stringent deadlines.
• Data driven. You make your product decisions based on quantitative and qualitative data. You passionately own quality delivery in your product area, keep a continuous health check.
• Detail-oriented. You are able to identify and resolve edge cases as well as functional details in order to deliver a high-quality product experience
• Receptive to change.  You are flexible, adaptable, innovative, and open in response to competitive pressure and market change.
• A systems thinker. You intuitively understand interdependencies, ask follow-up questions, and drive to solutions that balance the success of initiatives across revenue, quality, brand, and cost goals. 
• A collaborative thinker.  You enjoy an environment that has been structured for collaboration and interdependencies.
• A strong communicator with the ability to communicate effectively, create common knowledge, generate buy-in, and influence stakeholders and senior management towards recommended decisions
• Someone with excellent product judgment, the ability to make sound decisions based on tradeoffs of different solutions, complex problems, various stakeholders, and many constraints

You Have:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5+ years product management experience, building and shipping ecommerce or direct-to-consumer successful products and features
• 5-7 years experience in ecommerce, marketplaces or merchandising
• Superb analytical skills and ability to effectively use data to investigate and solve problems and make decisions
• Demonstrated an understanding of technology/architecture and effective partnership with engineering to identify technical solutions based on tradeoffs of user experience, technical debt, latency, scalability, reliability, time to market etc.
• Project management skills: Ability to plan, set expectations, make and meet commitments. Provide structure, process and project management to cross-functional teams
• Intense commitment to quality: Demonstrated focus on quality of product/customer experience and testing/debugging