Lead Product Manager

Company: Maven
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: March 20, 2025

Job Description:

Title: Lead Product Manager, Warehouse Automation

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Location: Phoenix, AZ/ San Francisco, CA/ San Jose, CA

Duration : 12 months to start, will extend



Job Overview:



Highlights

This role will be the functional subject matter expert for warehouse automation (ASRS/Sorter/ MHE) and related warehouse management and warehouse execution systems (WMS/WES) for their Arizona DC.

Project Description

At Williams-Sonoma, we support six of the retail industry-leading brands: Williams-Sonoma, west elm, Mark and Graham, and the Pottery Barn family. This role will work across the entire functional domain of all the brands.


The ideal candidate would have the product experience to effectively influence/participate in business engagement, strategic planning, roadmap development and decisions to ensure we deliver high value and high impact scalable solutions in an incremental fashion, unlocking hyper-growth, data-driven decision making and creating a world of possibilities for our customers/business.

Success in the role requires agility and results orientation, strategic and innovative thinking, a proven track record of delivering successful internal and external customer solutions at scale, rigorous analytical skills, and a passion for ROI driven approaches to solving problems.

Duties/Day to Day Overview

Lead product strategy and roadmap development for highly automated, parcel distribution center operations including automated sourcing and retrieval systems (ASRS) and "Goods to Person Picking" for their state-of-the-art Arizona warehouse/distribution center.


--- Collaborate with Business partners, engineering teams and program management to drive business value for parcel operations.
--- Drive meaningful business engagement catered to the unique nuances of each business team and leader, and that builds credibility and trust
--- Assist in continually improving the product management organization and making it a great place to work
--- Develop an understanding of the adjacent critical WSI systems and processes including OMS, transportation, logistics and final mile
--- Perform other duties as required including travel.

Top Requirements

(Must haves)

8+ years of overall experience in supply chain product management or operations for parcel warehouse automation
Effectively partner with Operations and technology delivery teams & QA teams through gathering detailed requirements, presenting the business value, documenting requirements in JIRA and Visio process flows.
Provide production level support for Operations and technology partners for operational go-live and ongoing deployment validation of new functionality.

Experience with Warehouse Automation, including Sortation, MHE (Material Handling Equipment), Goods to Person Picking and ASRS (automated sortation and retrieval systems) and related warehouse management and warehouse execution systems (WMS/WES).

o Expertise around Manhattan WMOS specifically - required

o Experience related to Material Handling Equipment (MHE) within a warehouse environment - required

o Experience with ASRS (automated sortation and retrieval systems) - nice to have





Experience with warehouse conversion to new systems and technology that require onsite training and hyper-care support.
Experience with unit picking of conveyable product type fulfillment models
Experience authoring effective JIRA stories for functional requirements, detailed acceptance criteria and prioritization with delivery teams



Experience writing functional use cases that are aligned with end user expectations. Submit data requests required to execute test cases and obtain end user sign off (UAT).
Drive functional backlog prioritization and lead various requirement discussions for product enhancements.
Data-driven and metric-based approach to prioritization of functional enhancements or defects. Ability to quantify impact, ROI, etc.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and organizational skills.

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