Product Manager 2 - Core Finance & Accounting (Hybrid - Seattle)

Job Description

The Product Manager 2 is a key member of the Nordstrom Product Management team, responsible for establishing and executing a strategic capability roadmap within the Core Finance and Accounting space.  Core Finance and Accounting is a critical function that ensures Nordstrom revenue and expenses are accounted for in accordance with industry requirements and standards, and that financial data is structured in a way that unlocks profitable business decisions.  

This role will primarily be responsible for shepherding the Tax and Treasury product roadmaps, ensuring proper visibility into, and execution on, our cash position and tax liabilities. In parallel, this product manager will develop a strategy for evolving Nordstrom’s tax planning, cash strategy, and associated risk-assessment practices.  

The Product Manager will partner with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to develop a strategic roadmap and execute against it.  To accomplish that, the product manager will plan the product roadmap and prioritize the applicable technology backlog, lead product discovery, and measure and communicate results of the feature portfolio in production, all while ensuring stakeholder and strategic alignment. Success in this position requires previous experience developing a strategic roadmap for a highly cross-functional problem-space, and a balance of strategic thinking with tactical execution.  

A day in the life...   

• Ensures seamless collaboration with business and technology for responsive support for impactful product deliveries 

• Crafts a multi-year product vision, articulating the value proposition and ensuring alignment to company strategic vision without support. 

• Evangelizes vision across the organization and the company where appropriate 

• Defines the approach to deliver to the broader product vision, in context with the domain, and developing a plan to effect success criteria and product value. 

• Breaks down roadmaps into releasable features without support and owns the prioritization and sequencing of those features to best support strategic goals.  

• Prioritizes feature backlog, accounting for complexity, impact, and cohesion with business unit strategy 

• Orchestrates comprehensive product planning sessions within their domain and across dependencies. 

• Leads customer research and independently synthesizes insights to develop a deep understanding of relevant product opportunities 

• Demonstrates a deep understanding of market value and trends (including competitor products) and incorporates into product roadmaps. 

• Writes complete user stories and acceptance criteria within domain and influences across domains. 

• Drives progress against deliverables across their broader domain, proactively managing risks and dependencies so that outcomes are achieved 

• Determines testing strategy and other acceptance criteria requirements 

•  Engages cross-functionally to ensure incidents are appropriately triaged and addressed. Communicates impacts across the business without support. 

• Prioritizes product roadmap to balance short-term deliverables with long term progress, across multiple domains with support. 

• Develops featur