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The Senior Product Manager is a strategic leader within the Nordstrom Product Management team, driving the evolution and optimization of our vendor management capabilities and supplier collaboration platform. This role will shape the future of how we enable seamless workflows for our internal users and external vendor partners through innovative, datadriven product strategies.

Product Management is responsible for making sure we build the right products and features for our customers and business. To accomplish that, product managers plan the product roadmap and prioritize the applicable technology backlog, lead product discovery, and measure and communicate results of the feature portfolio in production, all while ensuring stakeholder alignment.

The Partner Management team seeks a visionary leader who can define and execute a multiyear product strategy that transforms our partner ecosystem. The ideal candidate excels at driving organizational change, making complex tradeoff decisions, leading through influence across multiple domains, and applying strategic thinking to balance immediate business needs with longterm platform evolution.

A day in the life

Advanced practitioner of the following competencies, operating with minimal oversight:

• Drive the strategic evolution of external partner capabilities as a lead product owner, partnering with technology and business leaders to define and execute a transformative multiyear roadmap.
• Shape organizational strategy by connecting partner management initiatives to broader enterprise goals and identifying crossdomain opportunities for innovation.
• Lead complex decisionmaking involving multiple stakeholder groups, making difficult tradeoffs between competing priorities while maintaining strategic focus.
• Orchestrate crossfunctional alignment across multiple domains and business units, ensuring partner platform initiatives support enterprisewide objectives.
• Define and decompose complex, ambiguous problems into actionable strategies that balance technical feasibility with business impact.
• Establish product excellence standards for the domain, mentoring other product managers and setting best practices for partner integration patterns.
• Drive measurable business outcomes through sophisticated KPI frameworks that connect product metrics to enterprise value creation.
• Navigate organizational complexity to remove systemic barriers and accelerate delivery across multiple teams and dependencies.
• Champion continuous innovation by identifying emerging market trends and translating them into competitive advantages for our partner ecosystem.
• Lead incident response for critical partner platform issues, coordinating across organizations to ensure rapid resolution and root cause analysis.
• Influence without authority to gain buyin for strategic initiatives from senior leadership and crossfunctional partners.
• Build strategic partnerships with key vendors and technology providers to enhance platform capabilities.

You Consistently Demonstrate The Following Strengths

• Strategic vision: You think ahead about market trends and organizational impact, connecting tactical decisions to longterm outcomes.
• Complex problemsolving: You thrive in ambiguous situations, breaking down intricate challenges into manageable components while maintaining the big picture.
• Leadership through influence: You build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups and drive alignment without formal authority.
• Datadriven decision making: You leverage quantitative and qualitative insights to make informed tradeoffs and validate strategic hypotheses.
• Organizational navigation: You understand how to work within and across organizational boundaries to achieve results.
• Technical acumen: You possess sufficient technical depth to engage meaningfully with engineering leaders on architecture and implementation decisions.
• Customer obsession: You maintain relentless focus on delivering value to both internal users and external partners.

You own this if you have

• 5-7 years experience in product management, with demonstrated progression in scope and complexity
• Proven track record of driving enterprisescale platform or infrastructure products
• Experience leading crossfunctional initiatives that span multiple teams or organizations
• Deep expertise in B2B integrations, partner ecosystems, or vendor management platforms
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and drive organizational change
• Experience with complex stakeholder management across business and technology organizations
• Strong analytical capabilities with ability to synthesize multiple data sources into strategic insights
• Excellence in written and verbal communication, with ability to tailor message from engineering teams to Csuite executives
• Track record of mentoring and developing other product managers
• Experience driving product strategy that resulted in measurable business impact
• Understanding of retail industry dynamics and vendor relationships preferred
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture patterns, API ecosystems, and platform thinking
• Experience with change management and driving adoption of new capabilities at scale
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with tactical execution
• Demonstrated success in ambiguous, fastpaced environments requiring independent judgment

Benefits

• Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
• Life Insurance and Disability
• Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

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Job Details

Seniority level: MidSenior level

Employment type: Fulltime

Job function: Product Management and Marketing

Industries: Retail

Location: Seattle, WA

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