Product Manager - HCM

At Five Below our growth is a result of the people who embrace our purpose: We know life is way better when you are free to Let Go & Have Fun in an amazing experience, filled with unlimited possibilities, priced so low, you can always say yes to the newest, coolest stuff! Just ask any of our over 20,000 associates who work at Five Below and they’ll tell you there’s no other place like it. It all starts with our purpose and then, The Five Below Way, which is our values and behaviors that each and every associate believes in.

It’s all about culture at Five Below, making this a place that can inspire you as much as you inspire us with big ideas, super energy, passion, and the ability to make the workplace a WOWplace!

The Product Manager of HCM Solutions will have the opportunity to define and lead the implementation of next generation capabilities that transform the way that our crew (employees in stores, ship centers and headquarters) interact with Five Below as it grows from $3B to $6B in annual revenue.  This role will partner with stakeholders from Human Resources, Store Operations and Supply Chain areas to develop a roadmap for the systems that support the employee experience.  They will guide a scrum team in delivering business value frequently through an established agile development process.  Product managers are accountable for real-time engagement with senior business leaders for both strategic and tactical initiatives while ensuring our applications uptime and performance meets the operating need. 

Job Responsibilities: 

• Creates and documents a vision for multiple products in a prioritized long-term roadmap based on a deep understanding of business needs and market trends. 

• Document business requirements in the form of Agile stories; groom and prioritize stories in the backlog to ensure that engineers on the scrum team understands the acceptance criteria for the stories.   

• Responsible for defining Epics, stories and prioritizing the backlog.  

• Build relationships with key business partners and other stakeholders to ensure an understanding of their business processes/needs and integrate those into the backlog, liaising between those stakeholders and the technical teams.  

• Understand and manage the product economics including product budget and resource allocation, ensuring that resources and budget are directed towards delivering the highest value. 

• Describe proposed scope changes to engineers and negotiate tradeoffs between scope, schedule and quality on behalf of stakeholders.  

• Lead team demonstrations of software product and provide context to explain how the software product applies to business processes. 

• Sets and communicates iteration goals and iteration content via prioritized stories. 

• Develops a strong understanding of the business operations in a domain 

• Partners with the stakeholders to help drive user adoption of new capabilities, including development of change management plans, communication plans, training, and user adoption surveys. 

• Continuously monitor product performance, making adjustments and communicate status and changes to stakeholders. 

• Engage with the software vendors and understand the new application functionality that’s being evaluated for implementation.