Deputy Director - Product Management

We are PepsiCo. We are game changers, mountain movers and history makers. We are a diverse group, spread among 200 countries and united by a shared set of values and goals. That's why we Perform with Purpose. Together, we blaze new trails, succeed, celebrate, and never settle for second best. At PepsiCo, we're committed to performing well as individuals and in teams, to strengthen the company as a whole. Are you hungry to be a part of the World's largest portfolio of billion-dollar food and beverage brands Then now is the time to explore the opportunities of PepsiCo: what makes you unique makes us better. The Digital Products and Services team within PepsiCo's global Strategy and Transformation group is tasked with articulation of the vision, execution and implementation of PEP's next generation global digital products and data infrastructure. The Digital Product Management is not only responsible for creating roadmaps, delivering data and software solutions but will also be accountable for the resultant business improvement and outcomes.

One of PepsiCo's priority focus areas in the digital strategy is Sales Effectives. Sales Effectiveness (SE) exists to improve front line performance of daily tasks, increasing sales through prescriptive recommendations for prospecting, selling, servicing, and merchandising. Within SE, there are several digital products being developed. This position is for one of those products, known as OnePEP. OnePEP will create a common interface for our businesses to streamline sales activities and leverage store data to provide precise upselling opportunities, leveraging a common backend. The OnePEP product will serve as the foundational capability and product for our SE transformation to unlock business value via a unified solution. The Product Manager, OnePEP must possess extraordinary collaboration skills, systems thinking and product depth in order to bridge to our fast-moving business and our internal engineering teams.

• Facilitate meetings with cross-functional business and technical teams to gather product requirements and business use cases
• Define, create, and manage the product backlog through weekly backlog sessions
• Prioritize and create clear user stories and acceptance criteria day-by-day and manage progress through agile ceremonies by working with leads, developers, and scrum masters
• Manage QA by accepting the completed user stories to make sure the work fulfills the criteria
• Update Product Documentation as necessary including technical requirements, roadmaps, feature availability, and metadata management

Key Accountabilities

Product Ownership

• Serve as a subject Selling products
• Facilitate meetings with cross-functional business and technical teams to gather product requirements and business use cases
• Prioritize and create clear user stories and acceptance criteria day-by-day and manage progress through agile ceremonies by working with leads, developers, and scrum masters
• Define, create, and manage the product backlog through weekly backlog sessions
• Manage QA by accepting the completed user stories to make sure the work fulfills the criteria
• Provide feedback at demos related to product delivery, usability, and functionality, and escalate any discrepancies to Product Manager to ensure business goals are met
• Outline PI Objectives and lead validation efforts with all stakeholders co-lead PI planning
• Execute product feature launch/release cycles from a high level
• In partnership with the Scrum Master, identify risks and concerns for product delivery as related to individual teams
• Surface blockers and provide -offs to optimize customer experience, and time-to-market
• Clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to internal stakeholders and remote teams
• Update Product Documentation as necessary including technical requirements, roadmaps, feature availability, and metadata management

• 12+ years of product management experience, preferably some of which in a startup context.
• Strong communicator with excellent people skills to interact with various internal stakeholders, executives and data scientists and engineers.
• Experience managing, developing, and iterating on user-facing machine learning insights (ML/DS models) and data science models
• Familiarity and comfortable with key methods of evaluating models, measurement framework and ensuring they meet the needs of the user and the business
• Deep experience with shipping features in a software product in an agile framework Outline PI Objectives and lead validation efforts with all stakeholders co-lead PI planning

Skills, Abilities, Knowledge:

• Product mindset
• Nexus of communication and planning between business leaders, data scientists and engineers. Ability to lead each of these audiences with confidence and authority, instilling understanding and motivation
• Ability to drive teams toward a shared vision with velocity and possess an indomitable bias toward action in the face of ambiguity and challenge
• Equal ability to understand and influence business priorities as well as technical architecture
• Ability to prioritize competing initiatives and communicate with precision
• Execute against time-sensitive requests from executives and cross-functional business partners

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