Product Owner - Plano, Texas, Washington DC, NYC, Phoenix, AZ

[Praveen Jayathi]

Product Owner

Locations: Plano, Texas, Washington DC, NYC, Phoenix, AZ

US Citizen/Green Card

 

1. Must Haves
• Top Three Technical Skills:
• Ability to analyze commerce and behavioral data to determine different approaches.
• Technical understanding to directionally solve problems based on insights.
• Product mindset with a focus on rapid experimentation and outcomes (e.g., conversion rate optimization, AOV, top-of-funnel acquisition).
• Other Technical Skills: Experience in retail, mobile, or website. Marketing experience/Martech (e.g., paid social media) is transferable.
2. Plusses
• Key Soft Skills: Curious, critical thinker, strong communication, ability to negotiate and have hard conversations.
3. Day to Day
• Daily Responsibilities (Product Analyst/Owner): Writing requirements, working with engineering, validating experiences, analyzing data to pivot story-level details, challenging feature decisions.
• Daily Responsibilities (Product Manager): Looking at data, determining next steps, experimenting, testing, defining roadmaps, pivoting strategies.
• Consultant Achievements: Drive conversion rate optimization, AOV, top-of-funnel acquisition. Generate revenue through ideas.
4. Additional Information
• one Product Manager and two Product Analysts.
• The Product Manager role, initially, will require the individual to balance both product manager and product analyst responsibilities until an analyst is hired for that vertical (estimated 3-5 months later).
• The Product Analyst roles are similar to Product Owner or Assistant Product Owner roles.
• The analytical component of a Product Owner is growing as AI takes over tactical tasks, making the role more strategic.
• Cava's product verticals are Commerce (including catering and retail), Guest Experience and Personalization, and Loyalty and Offers.
• One Product Analyst will focus on personalization and loyalty, reporting to Lauren Murphy.
• One Product Analyst will focus on catering (commerce vertical), reporting to Brittany Pedrosa.
• The Product Manager will focus on Cava.com and the mobile app, with the potential to elevate an existing Product Manager to Senior Product Manager over the entire commerce vertical.