Product Manager Digital

Academy Sports + Outdoors is hiring a Digital Product Manager onsite in Katy, TX to help drive sales and profitability for Academy.com and the overall business. In this role, you’ll shape the digital experience through a product roadmap, measurable outcomes, and close collaboration across product, technology, UX, delivery partners, QA, and analytics to deliver value for customers across devices.

Responsibilities

• Drive sales and profitability outcomes for Academy.com and Academy Sports + Outdoors Overall Business.
• Own and manage the product roadmap, grounded in customer needs, product understanding, and the competitive landscape.
• Define, design, and lead development and ongoing management of digital experience features and functionality.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment by partnering with key stakeholders from the business and information technology to deliver results.
• Define, benchmark, and track KPIs to support business case development and prioritization.
• Collaborate with other product managers to improve interdependent platform components.
• Balance quick wins with platform investments to maximize impact in the least amount of time, while maintaining the roadmap.
• Continuously monitor and report on KPIs to identify opportunities to innovate and improve.
• Partner with UX to ideate and deliver site experience improvements, contribute to A/B testing conversations, and ensure learning translates into shipped features.
• Act as a champion for enhancing the multi-device user experience, including identifying impacts and capabilities from new mobile OS/platform releases.
• Evaluate new solution offerings, including participation in a vendor evaluation matrix and selection.
• Write user stories and maintain a prioritized backlog aligned to roadmaps and business objectives.
• Work with delivery partners to ensure continuous delivery of customer value, including defining timing.
• Partner with Quality assurance teams and User Acceptance Testers to confirm delivery meets business objectives and launch criteria.
• Perform pre- and post-launch analysis to measure and report product performance metrics.
• Use critical thinking to support decisions that improve outcomes for customers and the business.
• Support the team by being collaborative and proactive.
• Develop a thorough understanding of Academy policies, procedures, and safety rules.
• Duties may change; other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Entrepreneurial mindset: champions new ideas using insights and metrics, with confidence to own product outcomes and deliver results.
• User-centric focus: commitment to research, competitive analysis, user/stakeholder reviews, analytics, and unbiased recommendations in a collaborative environment.
• Leadership: guides and facilitates the team to move work forward, encourage bigger thinking, and navigate group dynamics to achieve outcomes.
• Communication: strong ability to present, pitch, and influence to advance business priorities.
• Partnership skills: ability to build effective relationships with internal and external business partners.
• Project management: capable of multitasking, prioritizing, and managing competing objectives.
• Technical fluency: deep technical understanding to communicate with engineers and discuss technical tradeoffs.
• Execution: organized with attention to detail and ability to meet critical deadlines in a high-volume, fast-paced setting.
• Agile experience and knowledge of Agile methodology and principles.
• Ability to relate cross-functionally between design, engineering, and marketing.
• Experience with JIRA or similar tools preferred but not required.
• Experience with data analytics tools.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in business management, computer science, information systems, or another closely related field (or equivalent experience).

Technologies

• JIRA
• Agile
• Data analytics tools

Physical Requirements & Attendance

• Acceptable level of hearing and vision to perform job duties.
• Adhere to company work hours, policies, procedures, and rules governing professional staff behavior.
• Regular attendance required.