Product Manager, Costing — Digital Product Creation
Job Description
Job Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Calling all originals: At Levi Strauss & Co., you can be yourself — and be part of something bigger. We’re a company of people who like to forge our own path and leave the world better than we found it. Who believe that what makes us different makes us stronger. So add your voice. Make an impact. Find your fit — and your future.
We are looking for a Product Manager to join our Digital Product Creation team. You'll support LSCo’s product creation teams — merchandising, design, and product development — as they take products from idea to physical creation. It's a role for someone who's excited to sit at the intersection of physical products (our garments) and the digital tools that bring them to life.
Your focus will be on rewiring how we think about Cost and Margin throughout the Product Creation lifecycle. As part of that work, you will be responsible for selecting the new Costing Platform and completing the implementation of the platform.
You'll own this work end to end — translating the vision into digital capabilities that drive change across teams who use this information every day. You'll work across several business functions and alongside other Product Managers across the Digital organization, and you'll have room to shape how we work together and grow as a product organization.
This is an Individual contributor role. Experience in Digital Costing, Sourcing, or Product Creation tools is a plus, as is any background in retail and apparel
About the Job
Help shape and champion the Costing vision. Own the roadmap, ensuring alignment with product creation goals. Motivate and inspire stakeholders, other PMs, and the technical team around the vision and champion these benefits and motivate stakeholders and cross functional partners around why it matters.
Own the new Costing Platform end to end — defining use cases, documenting requirements, and partnering with engineering, program management, and the business to deliver meaningful impact.
Manage the full spectrum of the product development process, using prototypes and MVPs to test assumptions and refine direction based on real user engagement.
Be able to collect + synthesize data to be data informed and comfortable leading with your recommendations. Use experimentation to take that data, define a hypothesis, and run a test and receive data learn what works and does not work for our fans and our business.
Partner closely with business partners to document current-state processes, identify opportunities where they can be completely rewired (not just optimized), and drive process change and adoption with business partners.
Manage a dynamic and evolving product backlog – prioritize new ideas, enhancement requests from users, competitive analysis, and engagement data for your product. Be able to synthesize lots of data sources to know what should, and even more important, should not be prioritized.
Lead RFI/RFP activities, including deciding which vendors to participate, attending demos, conducting and scoring vendor capabilities to provide a recommendation on vendor selection.
Collaborate effectively with 3rd party vendor. Be able to effectively communicate + influence the vendor roadmap to prioritize enhancements or new capabilities. Be willing to make difficult tradeoffs of using the out of the box functionality or customizing the platform based on business needs.
Evangelize product opportunities, prioritized concepts and results in both formal forums and ad hoc interactions.
Support product releases and drive rollout and adoption via close partnerships with business operations teams, understanding ways of working and needs to effectively communicate and launch changes to users.
Keep a pulse on the industry. Conduct competitive analysis, evaluate other retailers, and stay informed on the industry and evolving technologies in this space.
Establish the right KPIs and analytics strategy to shape insights. Measure and monitor success of KPIs on a daily/weekly/monthly/quarterly basis.
Be a contributor to our product organization — share better ways of working, mentor where you can, and help level up the team around you.
About You
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in product management, math, statistics, engineering, computer science or other quantitative field preferred
3+ years of experience in product management, with preference for 3rd party vendor platform implementations
A product builder at heart, you’re comfortable owning a product end to end, from discovery through adoption. Reputation for clear and robust documentation of user journeys, epics and requirements.
Strong data and analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize insights and lead with a clear recommendation.
Proven track record in product discovery and leading teams to achieve ambitious KPIs
Curious about the industry and the craft. You follow what other retailers are doing and and how technologies are evolving and bring ideas back.
Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration and innovation across geographical and cultural boundaries.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate at all levels, across multiple functions