Interim 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, depa