Making a career change is a big decision. Why consider Aptos?
Become a part of a team that is passionate about creating and delivering cutting-edge solutions for retailers worldwide. At our company, we’re dedicated to supporting your career aspirations and helping you exceed your goals. You’ll benefit from industry-leading training, global development opportunities, and the chance to collaborate within a diverse culture across our offices in nine countries. Our inclusive culture reflects our purpose: to make a difference for every colleague, every client, every day.
As a leading provider of Unified Commerce solutions for retail, our technology empowers top retail brands by optimizing product management, promotions, merchandising, and store operations. With the global shift toward our cloud-native, microservices architecture, opportunities for career growth have never been more exciting. Today, more than 100,000 retail stores in fashion, grocery, footwear, general merchandise, discount, and sporting goods rely on our solutions to generate nearly $2 trillion in annual revenue.
We hope you’ll join us in driving innovation and delivering impactful solutions as we continue leading the Unified Commerce revolution.
Overview
You will guide the advancement of the omnichannel retailing solutions by collaborating with industry visionaries, customer stakeholders, and Aptos thought leaders. You will drive product advisory councils, customer interactions, and our OMS strategy and OMS product roadmap.
Roles and responsibilities:
- Create the vision and articulate the short and long-term strategy for Aptos’ order management solution, ensuring alignment with our strategy and with our mission of succeeding through customer value and solution differentiation
- Be our subject matter expert for our product development and customer-facing teams including engineering, services, customer support, and sales.
- Own the entire product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical execution
- Evolve product management processes to deliver cloud native solutions to industry leading retailers. Provide thought leadership and oversight on the design and implementation of strong, frequent feedback loops to gather external (customer/market) feedback on product performance and differentiation. Oversee ongoing market validation to ensure customer delivered value
- Partner with go to market leadership to create alignment between product management deliverables and the go to market organization needs
- Provide OMS thought leadership to both internal and external audiences via presentations, blogs, articles, etc
- Own the economics of the business in evaluating cost to achieve business value
- Communicate strategies and goals to engineering teams and ensure timely delivery against them
- Build a strong partner ecosystem while constantly reviewing Build/Buy/Partner choices
- Oversee efforts to maintain awareness of and champion on-going sustained competitive differentiation
- Work closely with the Engineering and innovation teams to explore new technologies (competitor, open source) and ideas to solve product issues and/or innovate
- Own and curate a healthy pipeline of ideas, problems, and solutions, as part of an innovative product team
- Align staff capabilities, workflow, and staffing levels to be consistent with the corporate strategic direction.
- Facilitate the communication of corporate strategy, product roadmaps, and business priorities to the engineering organization.
Qualifications:
- BS or equivalent required with a focus in Mathematics or Computer Science (or other technical discipline with significant analytical or computer coursework), or equivalent experience; MS/MBA or advanced graduate degree preferred
- Experience in product management in SaaS and agile product development environments
- 10+ years of business experience Product Management
- 5 +years in retail fulfillment and order management
- Managed and or directed teams consisting of five or more colleagues
- Deep software development/management lifecycle knowledge and experience.
Starting salary may vary based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, the position being offered, location, education, training, and/or experience.
We offer a competitive total rewards package including a base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. For those in eligible roles, discretionary incentive compensation may be awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. By submitting an application for this job, you acknowledge that any personal data or personally identifiable information that you provide to us will be processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice.
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