Digital Product Manager
About the Role
The Digital Product Manager is responsible for the strategic elevation of Kohler Co.’s digital capabilities to provide associates, partners, and customers with best-in-class experiences. This role focuses on creating digital experiences customers love—easy, seamless, and effective—while ensuring they also work for the business by supporting commercial goals, operational efficiency, and long-term growth. Partnering across business, technology, design, and analytics teams, the Digital Product Manager identifies problems-to-solve, translates priorities into a clear product backlog, and guides Agile delivery from discovery through launch and continuous optimization. The role also serves as a key connector across stakeholders, balancing user needs, business goals, and technical considerations to deliver meaningful outcomes through data-driven decision-making.
Primary Scope And Function
- Own and drive the product strategy, vision, and roadmap for a digital product, journey or feature set end‑to‑end.
- Manage the digital product portfolio end to end, with accountability for customer experience, business outcomes, and value delivery.
- Lead customer discovery, research, and problem definition to identify high-impact opportunities and keep the voice of the customer at the center of decisions.
- Own and prioritize the product backlog, translating business needs into clear user stories and acceptance criteria for Agile delivery teams.
- Guide roadmap, release, and trade-off decisions by balancing business priorities, user needs, technical feasibility, and cross-platform dependencies.
- Partner closely with Developers, UX/UI Design, Analytics, and business stakeholders to deliver seamless digital experiences across the journey.
- Lead refinement and execution for delivering product outcomes that improve customer and business outcomes.
- Use data, testing, and performance insights to define success metrics, measure outcomes, and continuously optimize the product experience.
- Communicate product vision, roadmap priorities, development progress, and key trade-offs clearly to stakeholders through regular planning and sprint review forums.
- Act as the subject matter expert for digital product capabilities and experiences, helping align teams around best practices, business processes, and strategic priorities.
- Collaborate across functions to identify process improvement opportunities, challenge legacy approaches, and drive scalable digital solutions.
- Promote strong product management and Agile practices by fostering collaboration, clarity, and disciplined decision-making across teams.
- Embrace new technologies and emerging market trends to solve complex challenges.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Marketing, Computer Science or related field.
- 2+ years experience managing product backlog, priorities, and leading agile product development with measurable outcomes.
- Proven digital product experience and success in driving results.
- Demonstrated ability to lead the full product development lifecycle with agile teams from problem-to-solve, discovery, development, deployment, and evaluation/iteration.
- Experience conducting customer research, including development of customer journey maps and personas, to identify and communicate pain points and opportunities.
- Practical application of design thinking practices.
- Experience working in a product management operating model, such as Scrum or Kanban.
- Knowledge of UX and UI principles.
- Familiarity with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) goal methodology.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.
Benefits
- Day 1 benefits – access to your applicable benefit programs from your first day on the job, with no waiting period.
- Performance bonus/variable incentive compensation.
Pay
The salary range for this position is $113,150 - $175,150. The specific salary offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors including the candidate's experience, their education, and the work location.