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Title: Interim Senior Product Manager
Location: Onsite Seattle - (4 days per week - any 4 days. 1 day remote)
Duration: 3 months
- Job Description:Client’s Selling Insights team builds the reporting and intelligence layer that equips store leaders and teams to act with confidence, coach sellers, and make the day — spanning Flash reporting, Department and Employee Sales Dashboards, Space Productivity, Rack Reporting, and a Looker-based foundation on GCP.
- We are seeking an Interim Senior PM (Level 17 / PM Sr) to own product strategy and delivery for this space. This is an independent, execution-focused role: drive the roadmap, close data governance gaps, and accelerate progress toward proactive, mobile-first intelligence for store leaders.
- What will you own:?Multi-year product vision for Store Selling Insights across three horizons: reactive-to-reliable reporting, intelligence and Conversational Analytics, and proactive next-best-action.
- Active delivery: Department Sales, Employee Sales, and Beauty Sales Dashboard enhancements; Tableau-to-Looker migration; Flash reporting improvements.
- Backlog ownership: user stories and acceptance criteria across domain dependencies, sequenced by user impact, business value, and engineering effort.
- Data governance: advance metric definition and BRD certification with CIA, SNS, and Insights Delivery stakeholders.
- Stakeholder alignment across Insights Delivery Engineering, CIA/data team, business partners, and director/VP leadership — owning communications up and down the pyramid.
- Continuity documentation to support a clean handoff to the returning PM.
- PM Sr Expectationa (Level 17 PTF):Crafts multi-year vision; aligns to company strategy without support; evangelizes across the org.
- Drives progress and manages risks/dependencies proactively — does not wait for issues to surface or direction to be given.
- Frames trade-offs with conviction; produces documented recommendations to leadership.
- Defines success criteria including go-to-market; coordinates across functional and domain boundaries independently.
- Leads customer research; synthesizes findings into clear opportunity statements.
- Sufficient technical depth to engage credibly with engineering on architecture and platform trade-offs.
- Required:5 years of PM experience owning a product domain end-to-end at the Senior level.
- Enterprise BI and reporting experience — Looker and GCP/BigQuery strongly preferred.
- Platform migration experience: legacy deprecation, change management, and stakeholder alignment.
- Data governance fluency: metric certification, semantic layers, and data ownership models.
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently in ambiguous, matrixed environments.
- Preferred:?Conversational analytics, agentic AI, or LLM-powered product experience.
- Retail store operations or workforce management context.
- What success looks like?:30 days: Clear picture of the active roadmap, open governance items, and stakeholder map. Can articulate the core user problems without prompting.
- 60 days: Driving delivery meetings; backlog refined and sequenced; at least one governance item advanced. Product voice is present in architectural discussions.
- 90 days: Roadmap updated and communicated to leadership. At least one enhancement shipped or in UAT. Continuity documentation underway.
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's starting pay is: $75.00/hr.
Salary : $75 - $80