Product Associate III

What you'll do...

Position: Product Associate III

Job Location: 702 SW 8th Street, Bentonville, AR 72716

Duties: Drives the product discovery process for small defined projects by collaborating with the Business, User Experience, and Engineering Teams during discovery to assess value, usability, and feasibility of product features; specifying, prioritizing, and communicating high level and detailed product specifications; and using written specifications, business rules, flows, cases and user experience generated deliverables (for example, prototypes, wireframes, design and copy documents). Supports product implementation and deployment for small defined projects by engaging with Engineering and Project Management during implementation to answer questions and make scope trade off decisions; working closely with Marketing and the business to launch products and ensure their adoption; coordinating post-launch activities to validate that the product works as designed and that acceptance testing was successful; managing the development of training materials; training and supporting users on new product features; managing close-loop feedback cycles to encompass customer and user comments and needs; and defining, tracking and improving key product metrics. Demonstrates up-to-date expertise and applies this to the development, execution, and improvement of action plans by providing expert advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices; supporting and aligning efforts to meet customer and business needs; and building commitment for perspectives and rationales.

Minimum education and experience required: Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field plus 2 years of product management experience or related experience; OR 6 years of product management experience in or related experience.

Skills required: Must have experience with: translating product vision into product strategy and roadmaps; conducting end user research to identify user stories and to determine Minimum Viable Product (MVP); evaluating research and market analysis on industry innovations and technology platforms; establishing product goals, metrics, and analytics to measure product value outcomes; leading requirements gathering activities to gather and validate business needs; applying Agile methodologies to research and define user problem statements, use cases, and functional requirements; translating and documenting requirements in the PRD, BRD, epics, features, persona journey maps, user stories and acceptance criteria format; conducting user acceptance testing and product demo sessions as part of an iterative development process to ensure the deliverables fulfill specified acceptance criteria and achieve desired business outcomes; designing and implementing RDBMS Database; utilizing SQL queries and stored procedures to extract data from databases and perform data analysis; tracking application progress with JIRA; documenting product information and providing solutions using Confluence. Employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.

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Wal-Mart is an Equal Opportunity Employer.