Sr Product Owner, Cart & Checkout

Own product outcomes for Ulta Beauty’s digital bottom funnel by leading end-to-end execution for Cart & Checkout across web, app, and agentic commerce.

Responsibilities

• Own the Cart & Checkout product backlog, including epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, prioritization, refinement, and release readiness for web and app.
• Convert Product Management priorities and business objectives into delivery plans with milestones, measurable outcomes, and clear commitments for engineering and partner teams.
• Lead discovery and requirements definition for Cart & Checkout enhancements using guest journeys, funnel performance, analytics, UX research, and technical input to uncover friction and opportunities.
• Manage day-to-day execution independently with minimal supervision, tracking commitments and deadlines, removing blockers, handling dependencies, and escalating risks and trade-offs early with recommended actions.
• Coordinate delivery across Engineering, QA, UX, Analytics, Architecture, Operations, and business stakeholders to support timely decisions, validation, and successful production launches.
• Monitor Cart & Checkout metrics including cart abandonment, checkout initiation and completion, conversion, payment success/failure, order placement, and funnel drop-off; independently pull basic reports and analyze trends using analytics tools.
• Partner with Analytics and UX to define hypotheses, success measures, and A/B tests; interpret experiment results and post-launch performance to recommend improvements.
• Run product demos and stakeholder walkthroughs; maintain status updates and documentation for decisions, action items, owners, and next steps.
• Own product execution and backlog strategy for complex, high-impact scope spanning multiple features, systems, teams, or stakeholder groups.
• Work with Product Management to translate product vision and roadmap into sequenced outcomes, release strategies, epics, and measurable delivery plans.
• Mentor Product Owners and Product Analysts, strengthening story quality, discovery, prioritization, stakeholder partnership, and agile/product practices across the team.
• Champion responsible AI-enabled product practices, identifying practical opportunities to improve research, analysis, documentation, experimentation, and delivery workflows.
• Support integration of agentic commerce with Cart & Checkout by partnering with channel, architecture, engineering, and payment teams to define requirements, validate order and payment flows, and resolve cross-channel dependencies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Typically 5-7 years of hands-on digital product ownership experience focused on online Cart & Checkout in an Agile environment.
• Proven ability to own multiple initiatives, manage dependencies, and meet delivery commitments with minimal supervision.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end guest purchase journeys, including pricing, promotions, third-party payments, authorization, order placement, and exception recovery.
• Ability to independently retrieve and interpret basic Cart & Checkout metrics using digital analytics tools.
• Demonstrated success leading complex product delivery across multiple teams, systems, dependencies, or stakeholder groups.
• Experience with A/B testing, guest insights, and data-informed product prioritization.
• Strong cross-functional communication, product demos, stakeholder management, and follow-through.
• Experience mentoring others and improving product ownership or agile delivery practices.

Technologies

• A/B testing
• Adobe Analytics
• Jira
• Jira Align

Benefits

• Full-time positions: eligible for paid time off, and health, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
• Part-time positions: eligible for dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
• Opportunity for eligible associates to earn additional compensation pursuant to the Company’s bonus plan.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise-scale retail or omnichannel eCommerce, including payment methods, promotions, fulfillment options, checkout error handling, or order orchestration; familiarity with Adobe Analytics or comparable tools.
• Experience with experimentation platforms, Jira/Jira Align, and Agile or Scrum practices; relevant Agile, Scrum, or product-management certification.

Location: Bolingbrook, IL (hybrid) • Compensation: USD 102,900 - 135,000 per year