Columbia Sportswear Company

Digital Product Owner (Emerging Brands)

Columbia Sportswear Company  •  Republic of India (Hybrid)  •  2 days ago
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Job Description

ABOUT THE POSITION

T he Digital Product Owner owns delivery of digital storefront initiatives by defining, prioritizing, and validating work for the squad. Translates business needs into clear, actionable requirements whilemaintainingownership of theteambacklog and delivery outcomes. Collaborates with engineering, design, QA, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment and successful execution. Brings strong ecommerce domain knowledge to guide decisions across composable storefront experiences built with React, Salesforce PWA Kit,AmplienceCMS, and Salesforce Commerce Cloud.Scopeof delivery and sphere of influence is within a single squad responsible for end-to-end delivery of emerging brand and regional sites. 

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

  • Communicates status in daily meetings. Fosters constructive, collaborative, and effective communication with others, both internally and externally. Activelyparticipatesin planning, refinement, and retrospective reviews.Explainsandsimplifiescomplex information to stakeholders and team members.
  • Owns and manages the team backlog. Prioritizes work based on business value, technical dependencies, and delivery goals. Ensures backlog is well-defined, groomed, and ready for sprint execution.
  • Works with stakeholders to gather business requirements and translate them into clear user stories with defined acceptance criteria.Ensuresrequirements are actionable, testable, and aligned with businessobjectives
  • Drives alignment between business intent and technical implementation. Collaborates with engineering, design, and QA throughout the development lifecycle to clarify requirements and remove ambiguity.
  • Defines user journeys, workflows, and functional requirements for ecommerce storefront features. Ensures traceability between requirements, implementation, and validation.
  • Leads sprint planning and backlog refinement. Ensures stories are properly scoped, prioritized, and aligned with delivery timelines.
  • Validates completed work against requirements and acceptance criteria. Participates in demos and release readiness activities to ensure quality and completeness of delivered features.
  • Applies ecommerce domain knowledge to guide prioritization and decision-making. Understands key storefront flows including product discovery, PDP, cart, checkout, and order lifecycle.
  • Identifiesrisks, dependencies, and gaps in requirements. Proactively works with teams to mitigate issues andmaintaindelivery momentum.
  • Creates andmaintainsdocumentation for features, workflows, and business logic. Helps standardize requirement-writing and backlog management practices across the team.
  • Identifiesopportunities to improve delivery processes, requirement clarity, and cross-team communication.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

YOU ARE

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Excellent project and time management skills

  • Ability to collaborate and influence without authority

  • Strong written and oral communication skills

  • Problem Solving: Identifies and solves complex problems that impact multiple areas. Applies independent analysis based on in-depth research and critical thinking to recommend solutions.

  • Decisions: Routinely analyzes unique issues or problems and functions with a high degree of autonomy.

  • Knowledge: Requires specialized knowledge and expertise in own job discipline and deep experience in integrating related disciplinary knowledge. Applies specialized knowledge of industry standards/practices on key projects and initiatives.

  • Business Acumen: Interprets internal/external business challenges. Recommends best practices to improve products, processes, or services to distinguish from the competition.

  • Communication & Influence: Communicates difficult concepts and negotiates with others to adopt a different point of view. Converts technical information to compelling business context and advice.

  • Impact: Decisions will have significant impact to multiple departments or disciplines.

YOU HAVE

  • Bachelor’s degree, applicable certification, or equivalent experience

  • Typically requires 4–6+ years of professional experience

  • Experience in a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar role

  • Strong experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria

  • Experience owning and managing a backlog in an agile environment

  • Strong understanding of ecommerce storefronts and customer journeys

  • Experience working with cross functional teams including engineering, design, and QA

  • Familiarity with composable or headless architectures preferred

  • Familiarity with React-based storefronts or modern web applications preferred

  • Familiarity with CMS-driven content and workflows preferred

  • Experience with backlog management tools (e.g., Jira)

  • Exposure to retail or ecommerce solutions preferred

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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 Company

About Columbia Sportswear Company

Based in Portland, Oregon, Columbia Sportswear Company (NASDAQ: COLM) is a global outdoor brand that crafts active lifestyle gear fortified with industry-leading technologies and tested in our backyard. Our apparel, footwear, and accessories reflect our Pacific Northwest heritage and indomitable spirit.

Over the last 80 years, Columbia and our family of brands, Sorel, prAna, and Mountain Hardwear, have grown to over 10,000 employees and proudly sell products in over 100 countries.

At Columbia, we're as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available around the world, we're proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest where the lush forests, snow-covered mountains, rugged coastline, and wide-open spaces serve as our playground. This is where we hike, fish, hunt, camp, climb, shred, paddle, golf, run, and just enjoy the fresh air with friends.

We hope to see you out there.

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Industry
Fashion & Apparel
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Portland, Oregon
Year Founded
Unknown
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