Principal Product Owner

SO, WHAT'S THE STORY?

DM is Evolving And So Is Our Data Strategy

Were transforming how we do business and engage with our customers and data sits at the heart of this change. Our strategic shifts demand a new approach to how we collect, analyse, and activate data to power critical business decisions at every level.

This is ambitious. This is complex. But most importantly this is happening.

The question is: Are you ready to help shape what comes next?"

Were looking for bold, driven product leader with strong data background who thrive in high-impact, zero-to-one environments. This isnt just another product roleits a chance to define, build, and scale data products for a global enterprise that will truly transform how business operates. No fluff!

THE GIG

• Stakeholder Leadership: Partner with executives, internal and external tech teams and business teams to align on problem spaces, author strategic whitepapers for data products and solutions centring company goals.
• Road mapping & Strategy: Maintain at least a yearly roadmap on a continuous basis, translating complex business problems into clear, concise, and actionable data product solutions, specifications and user stories. Bring your own feature ideas to fruition by demonstrating value to users.
• Product Discovery: Lead and facilitate workshops and interviews with business stakeholders to elicit, analyse, and document detailed functional requirements for data products initiatives.
• Domain Ownership: Own data domain/s end to end.
• Hands on analysis : At ease in conducting thorough analysis of existing datasets, source systems and business processes to build deep functional understanding of data.
• Delivery Be accountable for the delivery of the data products and features within budget and at speed.

THE STUFF THAT SETS YOU APART

Required Experience and Skills Our Must Haves

• A product-minded seasoned data expert with experience in big data technologies and modern data stack for data product management.
• 10+ years of experience out of which at least 4 years of solid experience as a Sr. Business Systems Analyst or Lead Data Analyst (non-insights role) in Retail domain preferably in fashion & apparel.
• Must have deep domain knowledge in at least one area- Product, Finance, Supply Chain Ops, Inventory.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and influence diverse audiences.

Nice to have:

• Ability to collaborate with Data engineers and deep dive into data pipelines to understand and extract business and technical logics.
• Proficiency in using tools like JIRA, Confluence, Visio, Miro.
• Knowledge of any scripting language for data manipulation or automation
• Experience with reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) for validation and understanding data structures, not for generating business insights.

Core Competencies

• A product mindset.
• A builder at heartyou love creating from scratch and scaling products that users love.
• A strategic thinker who balances technical depth with business acumen.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and builds ones own path.

CORE VALUES

• BE YOURSELF : Drive innovation through creative problem-solving.
• ACT COURAGEOUSLY : Build scalable, future-proof data ecosystem.
• SHOW YOU CARE : Solutions delivering real business impact.

At DM your technical capability will go hand in hand with the below:

• Great relationship management that delivers results through effective teamwork
• Youll be a proud custodian to our DMs culture, embodying what we stand for and encouraging others to do the same
• Youll help build a highly engaged team ensuring a collaborative culture and providing guidance & support to other team members
• You will take ownership for your own development, proactively seeking out feedback to build self-awareness
• You will bring the outside-in; youll share best practice across the team/business and encourage ideas sharing as well as collaborative problem solving
• Youll lead the way and role model on all things DE&I & wellbeing