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 Digital Product Leader – Search Experiences assumes a crucial role in creating high-value interactions for SGWS customers, suppliers, and users. Product Leadership roles work closely with their lead counterparts in design, software engineering, and agile orchestration to maximize the value we create for users, and the enterprise with the digital product team. This individual will own the user-facing Search product in a multitude of software applications in order to help our users be more effective, efficient, and grow their business with Southern Glazers. This role reports to the VP Digital Product Strategy & Operations who is responsible for ultimate alignment across the portfolio of products that our end users experience on a daily basis.

　　Primary Responsibilities

　　Develop and implement a product vision that revolves around understanding our users’ core problems and needs – from today well in to the future.

　　Drive united solutions with all involved teams beyond antiquated thinking in term of “business” or “technology”. We are one.

　　End-to-end implementation of the digital product while managing risks, driving adoption, and reducing reliance on legacy tools over time

　　Running pilots, proving value and viability, and creating buy-in to invest in the products.

　　Drive highest possible adoption of these capabilities by translating the product vision into actionable epics and user stories, with a focus on seamless omni-channel experiences and real-time product/pricing strategies.

　　Additional Primary Responsibilities

　　Continuously monitor and analyze the performance of our Search Product and Experiences adoption, utilizing insights and analytics to measure utilization, successful outcomes, and user satisfaction.

　　Effectively communicate Search Product & Experience priorities, progress, and changes to internal teams and external stakeholders.

　　Curate and refine the product team's backlog, giving priority to features that solve real problems, and push all SGWS products into the future of being intelligent, personalized, and highly adaptive to changes in our users’ needs and behavior.

　　Establish best practices and standards to engage with customers to gain insights into their evolving needs, challenges, and feedback on the shopping experience.

　　Focus on outcome and seamless user experiences over any specific technology; Driving tech-agnostic solutions

　　Compressing project timelines through Agile ways of working and rigorous prioritization

　　Additional Primary Responsibilities

　　Navigate the organization to remove obstacles for the product teams

　　Critically assess existing capabilities to understand any build vs. buy approach to product development

　　Launching and phasing solutions utilizing agile methodologies to build internal efficiencies and scalable technology development.

　　Continually practice a shift in mindset from “requirements” to continuous improvement of the problem’s solution.

　　Accountable for measurable outcomes that ladder up to company objectives and business results.

　　Work with cross-functional teams to drive modular service-oriented solutions that leverage and create data assets

　　Minimum Qualifications

　　Prior experience creating new digital products that succeed in satisfying the users‘ needs, and optimizing existing digital products to increase adoption, utilization, etc...

　　In-depth knowledge of Agile methodologies which best suit Search Product & Experiences

　　Experience with agile development teams and workflows within JIRA or similar systems.

　　Strong data-driven decision-making capabilities, particularly in understanding online shopping behaviors.

　　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.

　　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.