Senior Product Manager – Retail Foundation: Partner Management (Hybrid – Seattle)

Job Description

The Senior Product Manager is a strategic leader within the Nordstrom Product Management team, driving the evolution and optimization of our vendor management capabilities and supplier collaboration platform. This role will shape the future of how we enable seamless workflows for our internal users and external vendor partners through innovative, data-driven product strategies.

Product Management is responsible for making sure we build the right products and features for our customers and business. To accomplish that, product managers plan the product roadmap and prioritize the applicable technology backlog, lead product discovery, and measure and communicate results of the feature portfolio in production, all while ensuring stakeholder alignment.

The Partner Management team seeks a visionary leader who can define and execute a multi-year product strategy that transforms our partner ecosystem. The ideal candidate excels at driving organizational change, making complex trade-off decisions, leading through influence across multiple domains, and applying strategic thinking to balance immediate business needs with long-term platform evolution.

A day in the life…

Advanced practitioner of the following competencies, operating with minimal oversight:

• Drive the strategic evolution of external partner capabilities as a lead product owner, partnering with technology and business leaders to define and execute a transformative multi-year roadmap.
• Shape organizational strategy by connecting partner management initiatives to broader enterprise goals and identifying cross-domain opportunities for innovation.
• Lead complex decision-making involving multiple stakeholder groups, making difficult trade-offs between competing priorities while maintaining strategic focus.
• Orchestrate cross-functional alignment across multiple domains and business units, ensuring partner platform initiatives support enterprise-wide objectives.
• Define and decompose complex, ambiguous problems into actionable strategies that balance technical feasibility with business impact.
• Establish product excellence standards for the domain, mentoring other product managers and setting best practices for partner integration patterns.
• Drive measurable business outcomes through sophisticated KPI frameworks that connect product metrics to enterprise value creation.
• Navigate organizational complexity to remove systemic barriers and accelerate delivery across multiple teams and dependencies.
• Champion continuous innovation by identifying emerging market trends and translating them into competitive advantages for our partner ecosystem.
• Lead incident response for critical partner platform issues, coordinating across organizations to ensure rapid resolution and root cause analysis.
• Influence without authority to gain buy-in for strategic initiatives from senior leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Build strategic partnerships with key vendors and technology providers to enhance platform capabilities.

You consistently demonstrate the following strengths:

• Strategic vision: You think ahead about market trends and organizational impact, connecting tactical decisions to long-term outcomes.
• Complex problem-solving: You thrive in ambiguous situations, breaking down intricate challenges into manageable components while maintaining the big picture.
• Leadership through influence: You build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups and drive alignment without formal authority.
• Data-driven decision making: You leverage quantitative and qualitative insights to make informed trade-offs and validate strategic hypotheses.
• Organizational navigation: You understand how to work within and across organizational boundaries to achieve results.
• Technical acumen: You possess sufficient technical depth to engage meaningfully with engineering leaders on architecture and implementation decisions.
• Customer obsession: You maintain relentless focus on delivering value to both internal users and external partners.

You own this if you have…

• 5-7 years’ experience in product management, with demonstrated progression in scope and complexity
• Proven track record of driving enterprise-scale platform or infrastructure products
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives that span multiple teams or organizations
• Deep expertise in B2B integrations, partner ecosystems, or vendor management platforms
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and drive organizational change
• Experience with complex stakeholder management across business and technology organizations
• Strong analytical capabilities with ability to synthesize multiple data sources into strategic insights
• Excellence in written and verbal communication, with ability to tailor message from engineering teams to C-suite executives
• Track record of mentoring and developing other product managers
• Experience driving product strategy that resulted in measurable business impact
• Understanding of retail industry dynamics and vendor relationships preferred
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture patterns, API ecosystems, and platform thinking
• Experience with change management and driving adoption of new capabilities at scale
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with tactical execution
• Demonstrated success in ambiguous, fast-paced environments requiring independent judgment

We’ve got you covered…

Our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:

• Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement and Paid Time Away
• Life Insurance and Disability
• Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

A few more important points…

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Pay Range Details

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Pay offers are dependent on the location, as well as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

$142,000.00 – $220,500.00 Annual

This position may be eligible for performance-based incentives/bonuses. Benefits include 401k, medical/vision/dental/life/disability insurance options, PTO accruals, Holidays, and more. Eligibility requirements may apply based on location, job level, classification, and length of employment. Learn more in the Nordstrom Benefits Overview by copying and pasting the following URL into your browser: https://careers.nordstrom.com/pdfs/Ben_Overview_17-19.pdf

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