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Digital Product Associate Manager

AT PepsiCo
PepsiCo

Digital Product Associate Manager

Plano, TX

Overview

We are PepsiCo. We are game changers, mountain movers and history makers. We are a diverse group, spread among 200 countries and united by a shared set of values and goals. That's why we Perform with Purpose. Together, we blaze new trails, succeed, celebrate, and never settle for second best. At PepsiCo, we're committed to performing well as individuals and in teams, to strengthen the company as a whole.

Are you hungry to be a part of the World's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands? Then now is the time to explore the opportunities of PepsiCo: what makes you unique makes us better. The Digital Products and Services team within PepsiCo's global Strategy and Transformation group is tasked with articulation of the vision, execution and implementation of PEP's next generation global digital products and data infrastructure. The Digital Product Management is not only responsible for creating roadmaps, delivering data and software solutions but will also be accountable for the resultant business improvement and outcomes.

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One of PepsiCo's priority focus areas in the digital strategy is Sales Effectives. Sales Effectiveness (SE) exists to improve front line performance of daily tasks, increasing sales through prescriptive recommendations for prospecting, selling, servicing, and merchandising. Within SE, there are several digital products being developed. This position is for one of those products, known as OnePEP. OnePEP will create a common interface for our businesses to streamline sales activities and leverage store data to provide precise upselling opportunities, leveraging a common backend. The OnePEP product will serve as the foundational capability and product for our SE transformation to unlock business value via a unified solution. The Product Manager, OnePEP must possess extraordinary collaboration skills, systems thinking and product depth in order to bridge to our fast-moving business and our internal engineering teams.

Responsibilities

Accountabilities:

  • Facilitate meetings with cross-functional business and technical teams to gather product requirements and business use cases
  • Define, create, and manage the product backlog through weekly backlog sessions
  • Prioritize and create clear user stories and acceptance criteria day-by-day and manage progress through agile ceremonies by working with leads, developers, and scrum masters
  • Manage QA by accepting the completed user stories to make sure the work fulfills the criteria
  • Update Product Documentation as necessary including technical requirements, roadmaps, feature availability, and metadata management

Product Ownership

  • Serve as a subject matter expert of our current/planned Guided Selling products
  • Facilitate meetings with cross-functional business and technical teams to gather product requirements and business use cases
  • Prioritize and create clear user stories and acceptance criteria day-by-day and manage progress through agile ceremonies by working with leads, developers, and scrum masters
  • Define, create, and manage the product backlog through weekly backlog sessions
  • Manage QA by accepting the completed user stories to make sure the work fulfills the criteria
  • Provide feedback at demos related to product delivery, usability, and functionality, and escalate any discrepancies to Product Manager to ensure business goals are met
  • Outline PI Objectives and lead validation efforts with all stakeholders; co-lead PI planning
  • Execute product feature launch/release cycles from a high level
  • In partnership with the Scrum Master, identify risks and concerns for product delivery as related to individual teams
  • Surface blockers and provide recommended solutions based on trade-offs to optimize customer experience, and time-to-market
  • Clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal stakeholders and remote teams
  • Update Product Documentation as necessary including technical requirements, roadmaps, feature availability, and metadata management

Compensation and Benefits:

  • The expected compensation range for this position is between $85,200 - $142,650 based on a full-time schedule
  • Location, confirmed job-related skills and experience will be considered in setting actual starting salary
  • Bonus based on performance and eligibility; target payout is 10% of annual salary paid out annually
  • Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement
  • In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan

Qualifications

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of product management experience, preferably some of which in a startup context
  • Strong communicator with excellent people skills to interact with various internal stakeholders, executives and data scientists and engineers
  • Experience managing, developing, and iterating on user-facing machine learning insights (ML/DS models) and data science models
  • Familiarity and comfortable with key methods of evaluating models, measurement framework and ensuring they meet the needs of the user and the business
  • Deep experience with shipping features in a software product in an agile framework; Outline PI Objectives and lead validation efforts with all stakeholders; co-lead PI planning

Skills, Abilities, Knowledge:

  • Product mindset
  • Nexus of communication and planning between business leaders, data scientists and engineers. Ability to lead each of these audiences with confidence and authority, instilling understanding and motivation
  • Ability to drive teams toward a shared vision with velocity and possess an indomitable bias toward action in the face of ambiguity and challenge
  • Equal ability to understand and influence business priorities as well as technical architecture
  • Ability to prioritize competing initiatives and communicate with precision
  • Execute against time-sensitive requests from executives and cross-functional business partners
  • Work with talented technical partners from engineering, data science, user design and architecture teams in a fast paced, agile development process
  • Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and high emotional intelligence. Ability to cater messages to audience including all levels of the organization (from executives to software engineers at implementation level)
  • Proven talent development skills with a strong sense of engagement while fostering diversity, inclusion and belonging within the organization
  • Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, manage tradeoffs and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with internal and external partners

EEO Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity

If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents. View PepsiCo EEO Policy.

Please view our Pay Transparency Statement

Client-provided location(s): Plano, TX, USA
Job ID: PepsiCo-309978-en-us
Employment Type: Other

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • Health Insurance
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • HSA
    • Pet Insurance
    • Mental Health Benefits
    • On-Site Gym
  • Parental Benefits

    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
    • On-site/Nearby Childcare
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Remote Work Opportunities
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Snacks
    • Company Outings
    • On-Site Cafeteria
    • Holiday Events
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Paid Vacation
    • Paid Holidays
    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Leave of Absence
    • Summer Fridays
  • Financial and Retirement

    • 401(K)
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • Stock Purchase Program
    • Financial Counseling
  • Professional Development

    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Mentor Program
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Leadership Training Program
    • Associate or Rotational Training Program
    • Internship Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)

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