Product Owner

Overview:
At Ulta Beauty, we're forever imagining. Forever striving. Forever investing in next-gen-with deep and rich opportunities for ongoing learning, growth and advancement. We encourage you to take control of your career and set your own ceiling. For curious and big-picture thinkers who can flex to the need and who want to stretch themselves through courage and conviction, Ulta Beauty provides an environment perfectly suited to your ambitions. Let's build brilliant together.
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- Set a clear product vision and communicate it effectively to the team and relevant stakeholders
- Lead business and technical development teams through the agile product development lifecycle
- Accountable for product KPIs once solution enters production and communicate regular tracking to stakeholders
- Accountable to achieve results and a strategic responsibility for the product roadmap
- Utilize market/industry knowledge to translate user needs into user stories and acceptance criteria for their team, and maintain a backlog 3-4 sprints ahead of the team
- Advocate for business stakeholders in providing timely actionable insights and recommendations to grow the business
- Facilitate release planning with stakeholders as well as weekly demos when necessary
- Build strong internal and external networks of capabilities and capacity to execute on the vision with quality and speed
- Develop Agile best practices and engage in the spirit of continuous improvement
- Partner with the Tech & Design Leads to plan the development of all products, including experiential designs & solution architecture
- Support the technical roadmap from the product roadmap working with technical leads and stakeholders across channels
- Champion the adoption of agile and product development practices focused on delivering value by partnering with business stakeholders and serving as a mentor to innovative teams
- Lead continuous improvement efforts by understanding stakeholder objectives, customer feedback, and proposing solutions to shape products
- Acts as the voice of the customer to represent the business
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- Bachelor's degree, with 5+ years relevant work experience, at least 3+ years in product management, agile and scrum preferred and +1 year of management experience
- Experience in a digital, eCommerce environment
- Experiencing using tools, such as Jira, Confluence, Figma, and SharePoint
- Proven knowledge and understanding of standard precision practices, technology and supporting industry principles
- Experience leading teams in an agile setting (i.e. facilitating agile ceremonies, managing a backlog/release plan, writing user stories), tracking team level metrics, removing blockers (burndown chart, release burn up, etc.)
- Domain-specific technical expertise to support backlog development and resolve blockers for the team

About:
At **Ulta Beauty** (NASDAQ: ULTA), **the possibilities are beautiful**. Ulta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer and the premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and salon services. We bring possibilities to life through the power of beauty each and every day in our stores and online with more than 25,000 products from approximately 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands across all categories and price points, including Ulta Beauty's own private label. Ulta Beauty also offers a full-service salon in every store featuring-hair, skin, brow, and make-up services.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.