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This role plays a critical part in enabling New Product Introductions (NPIs), supporting digital commerce, and delivering a cohesive product experience for dealers and riders.\nThis role enables faster and more predictable product launches, improves overall product-data quality, reduces manual rework across teams, and strengthens alignment between product development, digital, and commercial functions.\nHow You’ll Make a Difference\nYou will act as the product owner for the Product Information Management (PIM) domain, defining how product data is structured, enriched, validated, and prepared for downstream consumption. By establishing clear standards and partnering closely with PLM, ERP, and digital teams, you will help ensure that product data is trusted, scalable, and ready to support growth.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn the Product Information Management (PIM) product area, including data models, enrichment workflows, and publishing readiness criteria.\nManage product requirements, backlog, and acceptance criteria for PIM capabilities in alignment with NPIs and digital commerce needs.\nEnsure accurate and complete product attributes, specifications, descriptions, imagery, and metadata within the PIM system.\nDefine and maintain product taxonomy, classification structures, and attribute schemas to support search, filtering, and channel consistency.\nEstablish and monitor data-quality metrics such as completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and error rates.\nPartner with digital commerce, merchandising, marketing, and UX teams to ensure product data supports customer experience and conversion goals.\nCollaborate with PLM, ERP, and integration teams to ensure clean and reliable upstream-to-downstream data flows.\nSupport product launches, seasonal updates, and assortment changes by ensuring timely and publish-ready product data.\nAI, Data, and Automation Expectations\nLeverage AI-assisted tools, including Copilot and PIM-embedded capabilities, to improve documentation quality, accelerate data enrichment, and identify data-quality issues. Use analytics and dashboards to surface trends, risks, and improvement opportunities. This role applies AI to improve efficiency and insight but does not own AI strategy, platforms, or architecture decisions.\nRole Boundaries and Decision Rights\nOwns PIM product requirements, data standards, and enrichment rules. Influences downstream channel readiness and integration requirements. Supports delivery execution through PLM Operations.\nSkills and Experience\n7+ years of experience in technical product management, product data, or enterprise platform roles.\nStrong hands-on experience with Product Information Management (PIM) platforms, with Centric Software / Contentserv expertise preferred.\nSolid understanding of product data models, taxonomy, classification, and data governance.\nExperience working with PLM, ERP, and digital commerce ecosystems.\nAbility to analyze data quality and operational metrics to drive continuous improvement.\nStrong collaboration, communication, and organizational skills.\nEducation and Background\nBachelor’s degree required (Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or related). Master’s degree preferred but not required.\nPreferred Certifications\nAgile / Scrum Product Owner, SAFe, or product and data management certifications are a plus.\nSuccess Measures\nConsistently high product-data completeness and accuracy across downstream channels.\nReduced manual rework related to product data and launches.\nPredictable, on-time support for NPIs and product releases.\nStrong stakeholder satisfaction across product, digital, and commercial teams.\nAdditional Job Description\nBENEFITS\nAs a full-time, regular teammate, you are eligible for the following benefits, beginning the first of the month following your start date.\nBenefits include:\nCompetitive pay with annual performance-based reviews for continued growth and recognition\n\nComprehensive healthcare plan options, including PPO, EPO, HDHP, and HMO (acupuncture and physical therapy included)\n\nHealth Savings Account (HSA) with employer HSA contributions when enrolled in the High-Deductible Healthcare Plan (HDHP)\n\nDental and Vision plans\n\n401(k) Company Matching up to $5,000 annually with immediate 100% vesting and administrative fees paid for by the company\n\nCompany-paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability Insurance\n\nEmployee Assistance Program that provides access to individualized mental well-being care\n\nGenerous Vacation, Sick, Paid Holidays, and Volunteer Time Off\n\n14 weeks of 100% paid leave for birthing parents and 8 weeks of 100% paid leave for non-birthing parents, plus a Specialized bike for your new baby\n\nUp to $9,000 annually in Career Development & Degree Assistance\n\nUp to $250 annually in Fitness & Wellness Reimbursement\n\nIndustry Pro-Deal Discounts and Perks\n\nFor additional information on benefits and perks, please visit: https://benefits.specialized.com.\nPAY\nBelow is a summary of compensation elements for this role at the company if based in the following locations:\nCalifornia Base Pay Range: ($85K -140K)\n*At Specialized, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package and will depend on your work experience, skills, certification, and location.\nWe want to increase representation of all races, genders, and body types in the cycling industry and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce where all people thrive. We encourage everyone - especially those from marginalized groups - to apply to our job postings and help us earn the position as the rider’s brand of choice. We are always looking for creative, innovative, and passionate people who are eager to contribute to our mission of pedaling the planet forward. 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