Product Manager

Founded in 2013 Home Chef is the leading meal solutions company with both a retail and online presence. Available online at in retail at more than 2100 Kroger grocery stores Home Chef is committed to inspiring and enabling more people to cook simple delicious meals no matter how busy they are.

In 2023 Home Chef introduced a new brand Tempo! Tempo features a rotating selection of ready-to-heat meals delivered directly to your door. These meals are better-for-you versions of familiar favorites designed to save you time and reduce stress while maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Our Tempo menu includes options that are protein-packed fiber-rich calorie and carb conscious keto-friendly and dietitian-approved.

Similar to our recipes we recognize that variety is the spice of life and therefore our employees also bring their uniqueness and color to our fantastic team. Were eager to work with humble team players and pragmatic next-level thinkers to innovate on Home Chefs offerings.

The Technology Product Team at Home Chef is responsible for collaborating cross-functionally with stakeholders engineering and design to develop thoughtful technology solutions that provide a great user experience. We support products and technology that span the entire business - from our customer-facing website and mobile app to internal tools that support our supply chain and operations teams. We pride ourselves on being great thought-partners and problem-solvers and are always driving towards making an impact.

Detailed Responsibilities

Build and maintain near and long term technology roadmap

• Understand company and stakeholder strategy to compile a near and long-term technology roadmap
• Continually refine and re-prioritize roadmap based on business needs stakeholder feedback and tech capacity
• Use data to estimate project impact with Tech Leads return on energy and time invested and effort required
• Ensure balance between near-term impact and quick wins with longer more strategic initiatives
• Develop quarterly roadmap and present at Town Hall; reprioritize throughout the quarter as needed

Partner with stakeholders engineers and other PMs to develop robust and sustainable technology solutions

• Partner with Engineering Design and Data to build robust and sustainable solutions. Maintain a basic understanding of our Technology Stack and UX Principles
• Advocate for customer needs and voice in product design
• Deliver value quickly and incrementally while still pursuing a larger more strategic vision
• Track quantitative & qualitative metrics to determine project success and impact
• Support stakeholders and colleagues as thought-partners; exploring solutions that may not be entirely within our technology platform

Lead team planning prioritization and execution

• Lead a product pod consisting of 3-6 Engineers 1 Tech Lead. Hold Iteration Planning Meetings (weekly) Retros ( bi-monthly) Stand-Ups (daily) and ad-hoc problem-solving sessions
• For cross-functional initiatives partner with other PMs to understand impact and effort of projects; coordinate cross-team timelines to enable timely rollout
• Communicate status updates and changes in project prioritization to appropriate stakeholders
• Motivate and encourage progress; eliminate roadblocks to enable quicker execution
• Continually gather feedback from stakeholders engineers and other colleagues to improve work planning & execution

Key Traits and Behaviors

These key traits are tied directly to our core values and encompass your role of consistently delivering value to our customers.

• Customer Value: Deeply understands and communicates ideas that will serve our customer and business needs. Actively promotes customer-based research and data to drive product needs.
• Business Impact: Understands the vision and strategy of the company. Gathers business requirements and develop technology solutions that drive towards impact.
• Clear Communicator: Able to speak many different stakeholder languages: across users senior management technology and design. Adds clarity and structure to unstructured ideas in a way that enables the team to reach desired objectives and key results.
• Rigorous Prioritization: Consistently frames ideas in terms of impact and effort utilizing knowledge of Home Chefs Technology Stack and UX principles. Clearly communicates product trade offs scope and timelines to stakeholders.
• Growth Mindset: Understands that the team and organization are all in constant growth and is flexible when priorities change. Enables a culture of learning and iteration.
• Team & Culture: Drives team forward through thought leadership customer-focused decision making and process improvement. Actively seeks out ways to improve inclusiveness for all team members.

Qualifications

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

• Completion of a two-year program such as an Associate degree
• Exposure to programming
• In-depth understanding of systems design as well as project management techniques
• At least six months of experience using project management tracking tools
• Flexibility to travel up to 20% of the time (Operations Technology specific)
• Must be available to respond to work related on-call inquiries on scheduled nights and weekends
• Strong grasp of relational databases and ability to perform SQL-based analysis is highly valued

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