OUTGROWN YOUR OWN BACKYARD? COME PLAY IN OURS.
At Columbia, we’re as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available worldwide, we’re proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest, where natural wonders are our playground. 

Every product we make and every task we undertake is inspired by the famous words of our founder Gert Boyle: “It’s perfect. Now make it better.” As pioneers of relentless improvement, we are constantly evolving.

We believe the outdoors is ours to protect and strive to keep our planet healthy. We believe in empowering people to experience the outdoors to the fullest. 

And we believe in you. 

ABOUT THE POSITION
Although we're an apparel and footwear-focused company, technology is central to everything we do.  Columbia Digital Technology (CDT) teams enable digital solutions across four global brands, a global supply chain, and 500+ geographically dispersed stores. These teams support across a range of platforms and services to enhance the consumer experience in an ever-evolving industry.
The Product Owner translates general product vision into specific product features and implements short-term planning through regular road mapping. Prepares and leads refinements and planning within the team. Provides guidance in assessing product opportunities and risks as well as opportunities to increase the product’s business value in alignment with overall business strategy. Leads and serves as the single point of contact for a product category ensuring product vision and strategies are realized. Leads each stage of the development process and ensures final product meets strategic goals.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE AN IMPACT

• Utilizes extensive knowledge of the market, competition, and current trends to create innovative, functional solutions to boost given product category. Solves complex challenges and problems by offering multiple creative and differentiating solutions.
• Organizes workshops with product users to discover and validate hypotheses and develops optimal solutions for the product, ensuring solutions align with product strategies and are prioritized.
• Uses a data-driven approach to consistently redefine priorities of product category, leading discussions with stakeholders for alignment on recommendations. Manages prioritization and trade-offs between customer experience, performance, and operational support, maintaining regulatory constraints.
• Creates and drives the product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities for a given product category. Leads larger scale initiatives, ensuring deliverables are on time, on budget, and business needs are met.
• Leads project change management, using tools and methodologies to define and evaluate change, and delivering change mitigation requirements to the business.
• Identifies documentation needs, articulates, and guides the creation of business process flows, use cases diagrams, user journey mapping, and training documentation.
• Performs other duties as assigned

YOU ARE

• A Product Owner with experience as a functional consultant in retail / eCommerce
• Skilled in facilitating discussions, guiding solution development from design to completion
• An excellent time manager with impeccable organizational skills

YOU HAVE

• Bachelor’s degree, applicable certification or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of professional experience and strong competency with the various tools, systems, or procedures required to accomplish the job.
• Previous Product experience managing eCommerce Checkout and Payment
• Previous experience with eCommerce platforms (e.g. Hybris, ATG, Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud) is a plus
• Previous experience transforming from siloed shopping experience to an Omni-Channel. 
• The ability to synthesize data and problem-solve to influence business decisions and ensure effective outcomes
• Scrum Master Certification - is a plus

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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company. 

Columbia Sportswear is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. The Know Your Rights poster is available here: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster The pay transparency policy is available here: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter.

At Columbia Sportswear Company, we’re proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community. Benefits that can protect your family’s financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services). In addition, Columbia offers EAP + which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services. We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available.

If you need an accommodation/adjustment to successfully complete and submit your application, please reach out to [email protected] with the Subject: Applicant Assistance Requested.