Title: Interim Senior Product Manager
Location: 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 Roadmap

• Own the multi-year vision: from today's reliable Looker reporting through intelligence and
  proactive 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 Execution

• Drive 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 engineering
  effort.
• Proactively identify and manage risks, cross-team dependencies, and sequencing
  tradeoffs, escalating with documented recommendations when appropriate.
• Define and track success metrics for shipped features; drive root cause analysis and
  roadmap adjustments based on telemetry and user feedback.

User Research and Insights

• Understand and lead discovery as needed with full user population (store leaders,
  department managers, sellers, etc.), synthesizing findings independently to identify
  unmet needs and prioritization signals.

Stakeholder Alignment

• Drive 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 with
  engineering 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. The
  following expectations define the bar for this engagement:

Collaboration and Influence

• Encourages innovation across functions and domains; orchestrates planning within the
  store reporting domain and across dependencies.
• Influences roadmap up and down the pyramid; ensures seamless collaboration for
  impactful deliveries without relying on manager direction.
  Discovery and Insights
• Leads customer research independently; synthesizes findings into clear opportunity
  statements and prioritization inputs.
• Demonstrates deep understanding of market and competitive trends in retail analytics
  and BI; incorporates those signals into roadmap decisions.

 Definition & Decomposition

• Defines product scope and removes ambiguity without support; aligns stakeholders up
  and down the pyramid on scope and boundaries.
• Writes user stories and acceptance criteria that influence across domains; brings
  sufficient technical depth to enable extensible design decisions.
• Evangelizes test-and-learn; demonstrates product-market fit and makes roadmap
  adjustments based on measurement without management prompting.

Drives Impact

• Drives progress across the broader store reporting domain; proactively manages risks
  and dependencies rather than waiting for issues to surface.
• Communicates business impact without support; independently drives roadmap
  adjustments based on evidence; knows when to escalate with a recommendation.

 

• Drives progress across the broader store reporting domain; proactively manages risks
  and dependencies rather than waiting for issues to surface.
• Communicates business impact without support; independently drives roadmap
  adjustments based on evidence; knows when to escalate with a recommendation.

Prioritization and Planning

• Balances 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.

 
 
At 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.