Product Manager- Data Domain (P4410)
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Summary
Early-career product manager who helps build 84.51°'s data products—spanning data quality, metadata, lineage, and discoverability—that enable scalable analytics, self-service data use, and future AI capabilities. Day to day: backlog prioritization, translating business needs into features, stakeholder alignment, and customer research. 5-day in-office schedule in Cincinnati or Chicago.
84.51° Overview:
84.51° is a retail data science, insights and media company. We help The Kroger Co., consumer packaged goods companies, agencies, publishers and affiliates create more personalized and valuable experiences for shoppers across the path to purchase.
Powered by cutting-edge science, we utilize first-party retail data from more than 62 million U.S. households sourced through the Kroger Plus loyalty card program to fuel a more customer-centric journey using 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing and our retail media advertising solution, Kroger Precision Marketing.
84.51° follows a 5‑day in‑office work schedule to support collaboration, alignment, and team connection.
Join us at 84.51°!
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SUMMARY:
You are an early-career product professional who contributes to the business outcomes of your product(s). You help teams focus on outcomes over output by understanding customer needs, supporting clear priorities, and enabling trusted, reusable, and discoverable product capabilities. You contribute to the product vision and serve as a connector between business, clients, stakeholders, and product teams. In this role, you will help build and evolve data products that establish the foundation for scalable analytics, self-service data use, and future AI-enabled capabilities.
Develops a clear view of how the product maps to outcomes: Revenue, established KPIs, learnings from customers, adoption, usability, and value to the organization (Kroger & 84.51°).
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Contributes to product portfolio strategy that balances business need, customer value, opportunity, feasibility, and achievability.
- Uses analytics, research, customer feedback, and product data to support product team decisions.
- Reframes business needs into product solutions and reusable data capabilities.
- Contributes to a shared understanding of product vision and strategy across business, clients, stakeholders, and product teams.
- Drives business value for the team by helping prioritize and order product backlog items based on the product roadmap.
- Supports effective management of the team's product backlog and helps ensure it is transparent, visible, and clearly communicated.
- Translates business needs and requirements into effective features and stories that are ready for development.
- Outlines clear acceptance criteria to communicate the definition of done, including relevant data quality and usability expectations.
- Builds and manages stakeholder relationships to support alignment and drive change.
- Develops working knowledge of quantitative and qualitative product data to inform product decisions and the roadmap.
- Develops a good understanding of the business domain, stakeholders, data, business processes, and constraints in which the product(s) operate.
- Develops an understanding of customer and user problems, how they work, and the platforms, technology, and data they use.
- Understands and communicates organizational objectives, strategies, and solution needs to help the team deliver results.
- Identifies, manages, and communicates dependencies and risks, including risks related to data quality, ownership, access, and usage.
Accountabilities
- Contributes to understanding how the product creates value for customers and the organization.
- Contributes to product enhancements and the high-level roadmap.
- Applies business value prioritization criteria and supports continuous refinement of the prioritization approach.
- Aggregates business needs into platform and data-product capabilities.
- Defines, tracks, and uses success metrics, including measures of adoption, usability, quality, and business value.
Technical Collaboration
- Demonstrates product thinking by abstracting feature requests into classes of problems.
- Develops enough technical understanding to recognize when technical choices may conflict with the product vision or customer outcomes.
- Supports the creation of extensible product and data capabilities that can serve a variety of current and future needs.
- Partners with Engineering and Architecture leads so product and technology decisions are made collaboratively.
- Builds foundational knowledge of data products, metadata, data quality, lineage, discoverability, and governance, and understands how trusted, well-documented data enables analytics and AI capabilities.
- Research & Competitive Intelligence
- Continuously discovers what customers and users need, including how they find, understand, access, and use data.
- Engages with clients and users to build knowledge of how the product is used, where data creates friction, and what emerging needs should inform the roadmap.
Communication
- Communicates the value proposition and helps stakeholders and the team connect product work to customer and business outcomes.
- Nurtures communication with stakeholders to help keep product strategy aligned with business priorities.
- Ensures product and value-stream messaging is communicated clearly to the product team.
- Keeps stakeholders informed of customer learnings, product data, and risks that may affect product direction.
- Articulates how the product supports business strategy and creates value for internal and external stakeholders.
Partners
- Product managers, to maintain alignment with business and customer goals and expected outcomes.
- Engineering and Architecture, so product and technology decisions are made collaboratively and support scalable, trusted data capabilities.
- The ecosystem in which the product(s) exists, including business partners, users, data owners, data stewards, analysts, subject matter experts, stakeholders, and executives across Kroger and 84.51°.
- Experience Design (XD), to share, understand, and collaborate on research learnings and product usability.
Clients
- Business stakeholders and function leads and, in turn, their clients and end users, including consumers of data, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities.
QUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE:
- 0 - 2 years of relevant experience, including internships, academic projects, or equivalent experience.
- Developing strategic and critical thinking skills.
- Visual communication and storytelling.
- Ability to work through ambiguity and changing priorities.
- Creative problem-solving and curiosity.
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.
- Emerging leadership skills and the ability to motivate others through shared purpose.
- Developing business acumen and an interest in connecting product work to measurable outcomes.
- Understanding of customer value propositions and basic product positioning.
- Familiarity with customer research methods and a willingness to learn through direct user engagement.
- Familiarity with data and analysis, including basic concepts such as data quality, metadata, documentation, lineage, ownership, and discoverability.
- Exposure to developing or supporting software, platform, analytics, or data products in an agile environment with cross-functional teams.
- Exposure to product discovery, hypothesis-driven experimentation, iterative customer research, or academic and project-based equivalents, with an ability to connect work to business outcomes and learning goals.
- Ability to support stakeholder alignment on business vision and priorities and communicate context to delivery teams.
- Ability to build knowledge of and empathy for customer and user problem spaces, and to support research goals that align with business objectives.
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Pay Transparency and Benefits
- The stated salary range represents the entire span applicable across all geographic markets from lowest to highest. Actual salary offers will be determined by multiple factors including but not limited to geographic location, relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and alignment with market data and cost of labor. In addition to salary, this position is also eligible for variable compensation.
- Below is a list of some of the benefits we offer our associates:
- Health: Medical: with competitive plan designs and support for self-care, wellness and mental health. Dental: with in-network and out-of-network benefit. Vision: with in-network and out-of-network benefit.
- Wealth: 401(k) with Roth option and matching contribution. Health Savings Account with matching contribution (requires participation in qualifying medical plan). AD&D and supplemental insurance options to help ensure additional protection for you.
- Happiness: Paid time off with flexibility to meet your life needs, including 5 weeks of vacation time, 7 health and wellness days, 3 floating holidays, as well as 6 company-paid holidays per year. Paid leave for maternity, paternity and family care instances.
Base Pay Range
$77,000—$120,000 USD
Skills
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Basics
First Name, Last Name, Email, Phone, Resume/CV, Cover Letter, Location
Short answers (5)
- Preferred First Name
- How did you first learn about 84.51° and this position?
- Who is your current employer?
- LinkedIn Profile
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- What state do you permanently reside in?
- Which work location would you prefer?
- We have an in-office expectation for Monday-Friday and candidates must live in one of our hub locations or be willing to relocate (relocation assistance is provided). Please select one of the following that applies:
- Have you ever been employed by 84.51°?
- Are you or have you ever been employed by dunnhumby?
- Are you or have you ever been employed by Kroger Co.?
- Are you bound by any commitments, contracts or agreements with your current or former employer(s) that might affect your employment with 84.51°?
- Are you legally authorized to work in the U.S.? Proof of eligibility will be required before you can be employed.
- Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g. H1B status)?
- If you currently hold a visa, what type do you hold?
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- The essential functions of this position have been listed in the job posting. Can you perform the essential functions of the position for which you are applying as they are listed in the job posting with or without reasonable accommodation?
- As part of the hiring process, applications who receive an offer of employment may be asked to submit to a drug screen test to detect the presence of certain drugs or their metabolites. Offers are conditioned on passage of that test. If you are asked to submit to a drug test and you refuse to be tested, or you do not pass, 84.51° will revoke any offer of employment. All drug tests will be conducted in accordance with applicable federal and state law and will be done by way of urine collection and screening. Therapeutic levels of medically prescribed or over the counter medicines may lead to positive test results. If offered a position, would you be willing to be screened for illegal drug use in the next 24 hours?
- If offered a position, would you be willing to submit to a criminal background check, a previous employment verification check, and/or an education verification check?
Written answers (4)
- What is your current permanent address?
- Why are you interested in 84.51° and this position?
- What knowledge and skills do you bring to 84.51° to enable you for success?
- If your current employer is the Kroger Family of Companies, please list what department you are currently in, who your manager is, and state whether you've informed your manager of your application or not. Please input N/A if you do not currently work for Kroger. optional
