Sr Product Manager

Grainger Management LLC offers a hybrid work setup from its Chicago, IL office and benefits designed to support wellbeing from day one. As a Senior Product Manager focused on data products, you will help shape the enterprise data strategy, roadmap, and customer experience while collaborating closely with engineering, design, and operations to deliver real capabilities that enable teams to make confident decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve a portfolio of trusted, reusable data products that enable confident decision-making and deliver actionable insights for Grainger teams and customers.
• Partner with product teams to build scalable, high-impact data products that support visibility, automation, and AI and Machine Learning use cases, while supporting enterprise data governance and standards.
• Help expand the North America eCommerce platform by adapting the existing product catalog tool to support operations and ensure a seamless user experience.
• Work with product teams to operationalize the integrated North America eCommerce platform, optimizing the product catalog tool for both US and Canada markets.
• Use data-driven insights to develop business strategies and actionable recommendations that support competitive advantage, with a focus on customer needs, market trends, and operational efficiencies.
• Identify and prioritize customer and internal requirements, then translate them into a clear product roadmap and detailed specifications for the eCommerce platform.
• Guide a team of engineers through structured work by providing business context and establishing shared ownership of outcomes.
• Lead and coordinate product launches with business, product, and engineering partners, balancing schedule, risk management, escalation of issues, and tradeoffs.
• Facilitate product review discussions with C-Suite executives by landing the right message for the audience.
• Partner with analytics, UX, peer PMs, and operational business leaders to deliver quality capabilities in a consistent cadence of releases and measure business impact.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Master's Degree preferred.
• 7+ years of experience as a Data Product Manager or related occupation, including directing agile sprint teams and working with design, analytics, AI and Machine Learning teams, and business stakeholders, with demonstrated superior process design skills and delivering working software (preferred).
• Proven experience designing solutions to complex problems by conceptualizing, building, or substantially modifying enterprise data capabilities, preferably for a B2B customer.
• A continuous improvement and innovation mindset with an understanding of latest technologies.
• Ability to operate with ambiguity in a matrix organization while working on a tight schedule.
• Strong problem solving and planning skills, creative time management, high ownership, and an ability to help teams act with urgency.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including using data and metrics to support assumptions in business cases presented to executive leadership and stakeholders.

Technologies

• AI
• Machine Learning
• Agile

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment
• 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support emotional wellbeing
• 18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees (accrual prorated based on employment start date)
• 6 company holidays per year
• 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required
• Employee discounts
• Tuition reimbursement
• Student loan refinancing
• Free access to financial counseling, education, and tools
• Maternity support programs
• Nursing benefits
• Up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents
• Up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents

Location and Compensation

Work location: Hybrid, Chicago, IL.

Base pay range: $134,100.00 to $223,500.00 per year.

Incentive: Eligible for an incentive target of up to 20%, based on achievement of individual and company performance objectives, per the current incentive program terms (subject to change).

Visa sponsorship: Not eligible.