Senior Product Manager

Title: Interim Senior Product ManagerLocation: Onsite Seattle - (4 days per week - any 4 days. 1 day remote)Duration: 3+ months (Potential of extension or conversion depending on business needs)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.Need Someone who:Will need to be visionary and think through longer term strategy - Planning 1-3 year vision. ?Should have a good understanding of the user (store Leaders).Should be technical – understand how dashboards are configured.Should be able to work cross domains and with those stakeholders.Need to have very strong communication skills - handle tachnical discussions and uplevel it, leadership communication skills. Comfortable speaking with VPs.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 product management experience, with a demonstrated track record of owning a product domain end-to-end at the Senior PM level.Experience with enterprise BI and reporting platforms, particularly Looker, and how they integrate with modern cloud data ecosystems (GCP/BigQuery strongly preferred).Hands-on experience driving platform migration or consolidation efforts, including legacy deprecation, user change management, and stakeholder alignment.Strong foundational knowledge of data governance concepts: metric certification, semantic layers, data ownership models, and the distinction between data producers and consumers.Fluency in data engineering and analytics fundamentals, SQL, data warehousing, pipeline concepts, sufficient to engage credibly with engineering on tradeoffs.Demonstrated ability to operate independently in ambiguous, matrixed environments; proactively identify and closes gaps without waiting for direction.Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to produce crisp, audienceappropriate artifacts for both leadership and engineering audiences.Product Strategy and RoadmapOwn the multi-year vision: from today's reliable Looker reporting through intelligence andproactive next-best-action capabilities.Move a fragmented, desktop-bound reporting environment to intelligent, device-agnostic,role-based reporting, delivered in prioritized increments.Maintain momentum on metric definition and certification work.Be the product voice in architectural and data governance discussions.Delivery and ExecutionDrive delivery across active initiatives and optimizations.Write user stories and acceptance criteria across domain dependencies without support;keep a refined backlog sequenced by user impact, business value, and engineeringeffort.Proactively identify and manage risks, cross-team dependencies, and sequencingtradeoffs, escalating with documented recommendations when appropriate.Define and track success metrics for shipped features; drive root cause analysis androadmap adjustments based on telemetry and user feedback.User Research and InsightsUnderstand and lead discovery as needed with full user population (store leaders,department managers, sellers, etc.), synthesizing findings independently to identifyunmet needs and prioritization signals.Stakeholder AlignmentDrive alignment across a complex matrix: Insights Delivery Engineering, CIA/data team,business stakeholders, store operations, and director/VP leadership.Own communications up and down the pyramid, from technical tradeoffs withengineering to business impact narratives for leadership review.Level Expectations: PM Sr (Level 17)This role is calibrated to the PM Sr anchor in Nordstrom's IC Product Talent Framework. Thefollowing expectations define the bar for this engagement:Collaboration and InfluenceEncourages innovation across functions and domains; orchestrates planning within thestore reporting domain and across dependencies.Influences roadmap up and down the pyramid; ensures seamless collaboration forimpactful deliveries without relying on manager direction.Discovery and InsightsLeads customer research independently; synthesizes findings into clear opportunitystatements and prioritization inputs.Demonstrates deep understanding of market and competitive trends in retail analyticsand BI; incorporates those signals into roadmap decisions. Definition & DecompositionDefines product scope and removes ambiguity without support; aligns stakeholders upand down the pyramid on scope and boundaries.Writes user stories and acceptance criteria that influence across domains; bringssufficient technical depth to enable extensible design decisions.Evangelizes test-and-learn; demonstrates product-market fit and makes roadmapadjustments based on measurement without management prompting.Drives ImpactDrives progress across the broader store reporting domain; proactively manages risksand dependencies rather than waiting for issues to surface.Communicates business impact without support; independently drives roadmapadjustments based on evidence; knows when to escalate with a recommendation.Drives progress across the broader store reporting domain; proactively manages risksand dependencies rather than waiting for issues to surface.Communicates business impact without support; independently drives roadmapadjustments based on evidence; knows when to escalate with a recommendation.Prioritization and PlanningBalances short-term deliverables with long-term progress across the domain with support; aligns to business unit strategy.Develops timeline within the product line without support; partners with engineering leadership on scope, sequencing, and sprint planning.Defines success criteria including go-to-market; coordinates across functional and domain boundaries.Frames tradeoffs with conviction in the broader context; provides documented recommendations to leadership.Preferred:?Conversational analytics, agentic AI, or LLM-powered product experience.Retail store operations or workforce management context.Strategy & Vision(Nice to Have):Crafts a multi-year product vision for store reporting; aligns to company strategic vision without support; evangelizes across the org.Defines the approach within the store reporting domain; develops a multiphase strategy with clear direction; drives cross-org alignment.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.Applicant Notices & DisclaimersFor information on benefits, equal opportunity employment, and location-specific applicant notices, click hereAt 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.