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We help The Kroger Co., consumer packaged goods companies, agencies, publishers and affiliates create more personalized and valuable experiences for shoppers across the path to purchase.\nPowered by cutting-edge science, we utilize first-party retail data from more than 62 million U.S. households sourced through the Kroger Plus loyalty card program to fuel a more customer-centric journey using 84.51° Insights, 84.51° Loyalty Marketing and our retail media advertising solution, Kroger Precision Marketing.\n84.51° follows a 5-day in-office work schedule to support collaboration, alignment, and team connection.\nJoin us at 84.51°!\n__________________________________________________________\nSUMMARY: \nYou are an early-career product professional who contributes to the business outcomes of your product(s). You help teams focus on outcomes over output by understanding customer needs, supporting clear priorities, and enabling trusted, reusable, and discoverable product capabilities. You contribute to the product vision and serve as a connector between business, clients, stakeholders, and product teams. In this role, you will help build and evolve data products that establish the foundation for scalable analytics, self-service data use, and future AI-enabled capabilities.\nDevelops a clear view of how the product maps to outcomes: Revenue, established KPIs, learnings from customers, adoption, usability, and value to the organization (Kroger & 84.51°).\nRESPONSIBILITIES: \n\nContributes to product portfolio strategy that balances business need, customer value, opportunity, feasibility, and achievability.\nUses analytics, research, customer feedback, and product data to support product team decisions.\nReframes business needs into product solutions and reusable data capabilities.\nContributes to a shared understanding of product vision and strategy across business, clients, stakeholders, and product teams.\nDrives business value for the team by helping prioritize and order product backlog items based on the product roadmap.\nSupports effective management of the team's product backlog and helps ensure it is transparent, visible, and clearly communicated.\nTranslates business needs and requirements into effective features and stories that are ready for development.\nOutlines clear acceptance criteria to communicate the definition of done, including relevant data quality and usability expectations.\nBuilds and manages stakeholder relationships to support alignment and drive change.\nDevelops working knowledge of quantitative and qualitative product data to inform product decisions and the roadmap.\nDevelops a good understanding of the business domain, stakeholders, data, business processes, and constraints in which the product(s) operate.\nDevelops an understanding of customer and user problems, how they work, and the platforms, technology, and data they use.\nUnderstands and communicates organizational objectives, strategies, and solution needs to help the team deliver results.\nIdentifies, manages, and communicates dependencies and risks, including risks related to data quality, ownership, access, and usage.\nAccountabilities\nContributes to understanding how the product creates value for customers and the organization.\nContributes to product enhancements and the high-level roadmap.\nApplies business value prioritization criteria and supports continuous refinement of the prioritization approach.\nAggregates business needs into platform and data-product capabilities.\nDefines, tracks, and uses success metrics, including measures of adoption, usability, quality, and business value.\nTechnical Collaboration\nDemonstrates product thinking by abstracting feature requests into classes of problems.\nDevelops enough technical understanding to recognize when technical choices may conflict with the product vision or customer outcomes.\nSupports the creation of extensible product and data capabilities that can serve a variety of current and future needs.\nPartners with Engineering and Architecture leads so product and technology decisions are made collaboratively.\nBuilds foundational knowledge of data products, metadata, data quality, lineage, discoverability, and governance, and understands how trusted, well-documented data enables analytics and AI capabilities.\nResearch & Competitive Intelligence\nContinuously discovers what customers and users need, including how they find, understand, access, and use data.\nEngages with clients and users to build knowledge of how the product is used, where data creates friction, and what emerging needs should inform the roadmap.\nCommunication\nCommunicates the value proposition and helps stakeholders and the team connect product work to customer and business outcomes.\nNurtures communication with stakeholders to help keep product strategy aligned with business priorities.\nEnsures product and value-stream messaging is communicated clearly to the product team.\nKeeps stakeholders informed of customer learnings, product data, and risks that may affect product direction.\nArticulates how the product supports business strategy and creates value for internal and external stakeholders.\nPartners\nProduct managers, to maintain alignment with business and customer goals and expected outcomes.\nEngineering and Architecture, so product and technology decisions are made collaboratively and support scalable, trusted data capabilities.\nThe ecosystem in which the product(s) exists, including business partners, users, data owners, data stewards, analysts, subject matter experts, stakeholders, and executives across Kroger and 84.51°.\nExperience Design (XD), to share, understand, and collaborate on research learnings and product usability.\n Clients\nBusiness stakeholders and function leads and, in turn, their clients and end users, including consumers of data, analytics, and AI-enabled capabilities.\n\nQUALIFICATIONS, SKILLS, AND EXPERIENCE:\n\n0 - 2 years of relevant experience, including internships, academic projects, or equivalent experience.\nDeveloping strategic and critical thinking skills.\nVisual communication and storytelling.\nAbility to work through ambiguity and changing priorities.\nCreative problem-solving and curiosity.\nStrong interpersonal and collaboration skills.\nEmerging leadership skills and the ability to motivate others through shared purpose.\nDeveloping business acumen and an interest in connecting product work to measurable outcomes.\nUnderstanding of customer value propositions and basic product positioning.\nFamiliarity with customer research methods and a willingness to learn through direct user engagement.\nFamiliarity with data and analysis, including basic concepts such as data quality, metadata, documentation, lineage, ownership, and discoverability.\nExposure to developing or supporting software, platform, analytics, or data products in an agile environment with cross-functional teams.\nExposure to product discovery, hypothesis-driven experimentation, iterative customer research, or academic and project-based equivalents, with an ability to connect work to business outcomes and learning goals.\nAbility to support stakeholder alignment on business vision and priorities and communicate context to delivery teams.\nAbility to build knowledge of and empathy for customer and user problem spaces, and to support research goals that align with business objectives.\nPay Transparency and Benefits\nThe stated salary range represents the entire span applicable across all geographic markets from lowest to highest. Actual salary offers will be determined by multiple factors including but not limited to geographic location, relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications, and alignment with market data and cost of labor. In addition to salary, this position is also eligible for variable compensation.\nBelow is a list of some of the benefits we offer our associates: \nHealth: Medical: with competitive plan designs and support for self-care, wellness and mental health. Dental: with in-network and out-of-network benefit. Vision: with in-network and out-of-network benefit.\nWealth: 401(k) with Roth option and matching contribution. Health Savings Account with matching contribution (requires participation in qualifying medical plan). AD&D and supplemental insurance options to help ensure additional protection for you.\nHappiness: Paid time off with flexibility to meet your life needs, including 5 weeks of vacation time, 7 health and wellness days, 3 floating holidays, as well as 6 company-paid holidays per year. 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