Our Opportunity:
Chewy is seeking experienced and motivated Technical Product Manager who will join our cross-platform Database Services team in Boston, MA. In this role, you will manage team’s portfolio and day-to-day operations, work with internal and business customers, prioritize requests from stakeholders and help DBS engineers to support the large number of technology teams in Chewy IT. We are looking for a self starter with a deeper understanding of databases and automation technologies, have experience working as TPM, have great communication skills and personality, and willing to learn and work in highly energetic environment.
What You’ll Do:
- Work as the member of cross-platform Database Services team
- Communicate with stakeholders and customers
- Collect and define requirements, identify scope and LOE of the projects
- Build implementation plan for the projects and manage their execution
- Coordinate activities across different initiatives
- Set priorities for the team members
- Contribute to road map definition in collaboration with technical and product leadership
- Address project risks including the development of contingency plans
- Continuously make sure the team is delivering according to the constantly growing needs of the business
- Manage day-to-day team operations
- Measure and continuously improve team’s effectiveness
What You’ll Need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields
- Excellent communication and organization skills
- 5+ years of Technical or Product experience
- Agile experience (Scrum Master, Product Owner)
- Experience working with database technologies. You do not need to have hands-on database engineering experience but you should understand the field and being able to speak the same language with the engineers.
- Capability to identify and mitigate development and implementation risks
- Understanding of automation technologies.
- Experience working with the systems in the public cloud, specifically AWS
- Position may require occasional travel
Bonus
- Hands-on database engineering experience
- Experience in people management
- E-commerce, Retail, Supply Chain functional knowledge