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This role is for a Senior Lead, Product Operations for the Growth Team. Shopify’s Growth Team builds the product features and platforms that increase the number of entrepreneurs on Shopify. This R&D team has the mission to help Merchants succeed long term every step of the way. As a Senior Lead, Product Operations, you will be an individual contributor, responsible for building and running at-scale systems that ensure alignment, visibility, and speed in our product development processes for this area. You will partner with leaders across Product, UX, Engineering and Data to drive the planning process including roadmap planning, aiming on our products and executive reviews along the way. You will define, own, and continuously improve company-wide processes that scale to Shopify as a whole, such as how we build across all Shopify surfaces. You will be responsible for communicating with stakeholders at all levels about progress and outcomes for your areas. Lastly, you are expected to help improve the craft of Product Operations at Shopify by mentoring other product operators, sharing best practices, and contributing to aiming how Growth and the rest of Shopify operates.
Job Responsibility
Remove roadblocks to product development: solve bottlenecks, streamline communication, accelerate decisions and help us focus and move faster to ship value to our users
Gather and analyze large amounts of information quickly and disseminate insights leading to data-informed platform and launch decisions
Structure and solve complex and ambiguous platform, business and operational challenges affecting multiple product areas and Shopify as a whole
Partner with teams (e.g. Product, UX, Engineering, Data) to cross-functionally align Growth’s planning and assembly and drive momentum to ship value
Build systems for frequent alignment, accountability to outcomes, and feedback within areas with dozens of concurrent projects
Raise the bar across Product Ops at Shopify: scale what works, question what doesn’t, and mentor craft members across the company to build a world-class team
Leverage AI to increase our scale, speed and ambition across our R&D teams
Requirements
Experience in successfully driving complex operational and strategic initiatives, including zero-to-one launches, large business-critical migrations, and highly interconnected, cross-functional projects in a fast-paced environment
Experience in designing and rolling out effective minimum viable process, thinking in systems while rolling up their sleeves to get things done
Excellent communication skills to effectively update executive stakeholders as well as influence and enable product teams
Ability to pull projects out of local maxima, and influence teams to consider a different approach
Proven ability to prioritize strategically and getting things done pragmatically in a fast-paced & growing environment
Be self driven, proactive and able to navigate through ambiguity and complexity
Nice to have
Prior experience working with Growth teams or metrics-heavy areas
Understanding of Marketing or Data platforms and tools
Experience in Infrastructure, Engineering or related industries
Advanced degree in Business, Finance, or a related field