What You Need To Know
Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.
As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.
We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.
Overview
The “MySG” Digital Product Leader focuses on the development and optimization of new digital product built to serve the unique needs of Southern Glazers employees. This is an individual contributor and leadership role, which involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to create and align digital strategies, ensuring the successful launch and adoption of these innovative products. This Digital Product Leader plays a crucial role in driving the organization's digital product excellence, requiring a profound grasp of digital technologies, agile methodologies, strong team management, and a forward-thinking strategic vision.
Primary Responsibilities
Experience: 6+ years in digital product management, focused on end-user (consumer or customer) applications and products. Candidates must have experience in creating products and features from scratch, as well as scaling products from infancy to significant adoption. This individual should feel confident in their ability to propel an organization's digital product excellence.
Scope: Demonstrated ability to shape and oversee the overarching strategy of shared digital products, lead a top-performing digital product team, interface with senior and executive leadership, and ensure alignment with the organization's digital transformation goals.
Define and own the overall product strategy and roadmap for the MySG internal app, driving maximum value to employees on their behalf, based on their true needs and desires.
Work extremely closely with the product team as their peer and co-leader, along with fellow leaders from engineering, design, and agile orchestration.
Drive a culture of self-reliance, achievement, and pride in work product throughout the product team.
Additional Primary Responsibilities
Driving highest possible adoption of digital capabilities through Prioritizing and managing the development of product features and functionalities based on business value, customer feedback, and internal needs.
Oversee user problem identification and opportunity discovery, solution concepting and user validation, user story writing, feature development, and user acceptance testing.
Running pilots, proving value and viability, and creating buy-in to invest in the products.
Conduct and oversee regular user testing sessions to gather feedback and insights.
Ensure that digital products are built using appropriate and up-to-date technologies, aligning with the organization's technology stack and architecture standards.
Collaborate with development teams to ensure that digital product builds are perfectly aligned with the design blueprint and meet all stated objectives.
Additional Responsibilities
Collaborate closely with fellow Product Leaders and Digital Leaders to align on product vision, user needs, and design implementations.
Work in tandem with internal teams to ensure overarching digital strategies are complemented by effective user experiences.
Focus on outcome and seamless user experiences over any specific technology; Driving tech-agnostic solutions
Managing and optimizing product success achievements via Agile ways of working and rigorous prioritization
Navigate the organization to remove obstacles for the product teams
Minimum Qualifications
Profound knowledge of digital product development methodologies, tools, and technologies.
Experience with user experience (UX) and user interface design principles.
Ability to transform user feedback into strategic design direction.
Skilled in assessing and iterating digital products based on user feedback and testing.
Strong analytical thinking with an emphasis on user experience.
Experience working in a federated model with product teams use of digital and data platforms across proprietary data, software, and commercially off the shelf software as part of the enterprise architecture standards.
Physical Demands
Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs
EEO Statement
Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.
Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.