Sr Manager, Product Management (Technical) at Gap Inc. in San Francisco, California

Job Description:

About Gap Inc.

Our brands bridge the gaps we see in the world. Old Navy democratizes style to ensure everyone has access to quality fashion at every price point. Athleta unleashes the potential of every woman, regardless of body size, age or ethnicity. Banana Republic believes in sustainable luxury for all. And Gap inspires the world to bring individuality to modern, responsibly made essentials.    

This simple idea—that we all deserve to belong, and on our own terms—is core to who we are as a company and how we make decisions. Our team is made up of thousands of people across the globe who take risks, think big, and do good for our customers, communities, and the planet. Ready to  learn fast, create with audacity and lead boldly? Join our team.

About the Role

In this role you are accountable for ensuring delivery of all capabilities impacting and enabling our functions. This includes real-time relevant business communications and engagement to ensure our capabilities' uptime and performance meets the operating need. Collaboration with product management and engineering is key to success in this role.


The Technical Product Manager will work closely with leadership and cross-functional teams to curate and prioritize a product roadmap while defining our product practice to deliver transformational value across these lines of business, including the delivery of key initiatives that drive more efficiency and effective product outcomes. You will be responsible for roadmap development, product requirements management, stakeholder and customer engagement, leadership reviews, user testing, and product launch strategy and execution.

What You'll Do

• Identify the customer needs and business objectives that key platform, tech ops and info sec initiatives will fulfill


• Develop a product vision that all stakeholders can understand and rally behind


• Translate product vision into technical features and user stories for development teams


• Manage technical build against customer needs and business objectives


• Navigate development teams through organizational obstacles facing product builds


• Contribute to and influence technical decisions with engineering and other development teams


• Develop overarching product strategy through definition and management of multi-year product roadmap


• Determine and prioritize feature enhancements by soliciting feedback from internal and brand stakeholders


• Collaborate with business stakeholders, development, IT, operations and Vendors regarding the feature backlog


• Steer a high-performing product line and drive cross-functional operational excellence and successful execution


• Serve as the key collaboration point between business, technology, and other partners


• Lead cross-functional initiatives and manage tasks, tools, relationships in every phase of development, from product planning through launch and beyond


• Champion product management strategy to teams across the enterprise


• Deep dive problems or opportunity areas and propose solutions to address

Who You Are

• 4+ years of experience in technical product management or a related role in which you were responsible for owning and driving end-to-end product requirements


• 3+ years of experience in Agile Scrum methodologies and practices


• Experience in implementing visionary product leadership


• Experience in building strategic product roadmaps


• Expertise in communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders


• Exceptional stakeholder management through excellent written and oral communication with people who have different levels of expertise, experience, and involvement in the product


• Experience in product architecture and design principles


• Ability to problem solve, identify issues, and manage through self-reliance to solution


• Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field


• Advance degree is preferred.

Benefits at Gap Inc.

• Merchandise discount for our brands: 50% off regular-priced merchandise at Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta, and 30% off at Outlet for all employees.
• One of the most competitive Paid Time Off plans in the industry.*
• Employees can take up to five “on the clock” hours each month to volunteer at a charity of their choice.*
• Extensive 401(k) plan with company matching for contributions up to four percent of an employee’s base pay.*
• Employee stock purchase plan.*
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.*
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*For eligible employees

Gap Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, training and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds, and make all employment decisions without regard to any protected status. We have received numerous awards for our long-held commitment to equality and will continue to foster a diverse and inclusive environment of belonging. In 2022, we were recognized by Forbes as one of the World's Best Employers and one of the Best Employers for Diversity.


Salary Range: $161,300 - $213,700 USD
Employee pay will vary based on factors such as qualifications, experience, skill level, competencies and work location. We will meet minimum wage or minimum of the pay range (whichever is higher) based on city, county and state requirements.



US CandidatesPlease note that effective, June 30, 2022, Gap Inc. will no longer require any of its employees to wear face masks or require proof of COVID vaccination, unless required by local or state/provincial mandates or as part of Gap Inc's quarantine guidelines after being exposed to or testing positive for COVID. Therefore, please disregard any language in any job posting that refers to Gap Inc.'s face mask and proof of vaccination policy as said policy is no longer effective.