Lead Product Manager - Item Onboarding (Catalog Management)

Your Impact
The Lead Product Manager owns the vision and strategy, roadmap, and feature definition for large, cross-functional and/or highly complex products that often span multiple product groups. Responsibilities include defining the roadmap as well as planning and managing products and product features through the product development process. This role manages the product backlogs for one or more product groups while prioritizing work and making product-related decisions based on the needs and expectations of customers and stakeholders. This role identifies and manages projects with a high level of autonomy. The Lead Product Manager manages multiple product designs at any given time while partnering closely with the business to understand challenges and develop the go-to-market strategy.
What you will do
This role will transform Item Onboarding by enabling Lowe's to rapidly deliver new and innovative business capabilities-empowering vendors and associates with fast, personalized, easy-to-use experiences that cut complexity, automate manual tasks, and guarantee trusted data. As the Lead Product Manager for Item Onboarding, you'll craft the end-to-end journey that lets our vendors submit items effortlessly while enabling associates to validate and launch them with unprecedented speed and confidence. By streamlining this process through dynamic taxonomy, automation, and personalized workflows, you'll turn raw supplier data into customer-ready items-delivering measurable impact for millions of Lowe's customers, from DIYers to Pros. Your discoveries and roadmap will make a massive impact to Item Onboarding, slashing manual effort, eliminating tech tickets, and setting the pace for innovation across the Enterprise Item portfolio. If you thrive on marrying bold vision with flawless execution-and want to redefine what "speed of retail means for the home-improvement industry-this is your product to build, inspire, and lead.
• Drives and is responsible for the success of a product or suite of products through the product lifecycle. Sets the standard across the enterprise for building usable, viable, and feasible products. Drives a continuous improvement culture. Identifies and implements opportunities to improve team and culture.• Frames the product vision and direction qualitatively for each product under their domain along with the product team. Defines the long-term plan of the product and objectives and key results (OKRs). Works with business partners to obtain buy-in.• Creates and delivers a quarterly product roadmap with high level milestones in partnership with the product team. Contributes rounded internal/external inputs to guide measures of product success. Owns and drives the product plans. Leverages data from multiple sources to negotiate alignment and timing for cross-domain dependencies to achieve expected value.• Owns and leads journey-mapping conversations across domains to drive clarity in product separation while maintaining holistic workflows for the end users. May impact cross-domain journey mapping/user experience.• Stays up to date and acts on macro and micro technology trends within given space to ensure the company maintains leader position at the brand level.• Drives innovation to accelerate product roadmaps and reusability across products within the domain.• Experiments to ensure user adoption before making large investments in product build.• Leads a product group in cross-functional execution and delivery of a product or group of products. Works autonomously on a large or complicated product. Serves as an expert in a product domain across the company and sets the benchmark for delivering quality products. Builds cross-functional roadmaps focused on delivering user value across the enterprise.• Drives prioritization cross-functionally and communicates how user value is being delivered according to the roadmap. Aligns with partners to achieve the value of the product or business case.• Influences the strategic direction of a significant product or suite of product(s). Influences engineering priorities of the product space. Acts as a key influencer across the portfolio.• Uses product marketing to drive deep understanding of the product owned with peers and leaders. Works with stakeholders to develop product market fit strategies.• Defines objectives and data required for analytics needed either independently or in conjunction with business partners for their product and how it relates to the product portfolio. Partners with engineering to build tracking/monitoring needed to get the data.• Develops functional and technical OKRs/metrics and creates corresponding data/analytics to track the health and business impact. Defines key metrics of the product and practices routines to consistently monitor health of the product.• Leverages data to determine trends and opportunities within the assigned product. Interacts with competitive products and evaluates industry trends to set product plan and priorities to ensure product is at or above industry norm.
Required Qualifications• 7 years of experience in two or more of the following: project management, product management, business analysis, program management, experimentation, or product marketing.• 5 years of experience in product and/or experience management.• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, engineering, communications, or related field (or equivalent work experience in lieu of degree).
Preferred Skills/Education• Experience providing guidance and direction to cross-functional resources• CSPO Certification.• Master's degree in business administration or similar advanced degree or equivalent work experience.
• Experience in an agile software environment with proficiency in product marketing and strong writing ability.• Experience working cross-functionally in a large organization with senior leadership.• Experience translating data into quantifiable actions/deliverables.
About Lowe's
Lowe's is a FORTUNE® 100 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion, Lowe's operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.