Senior Director of Product Management, Merchandising Technology

OVERVIEW

Live the experience. From professional empowerment to continual learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in new and emerging technologies to a career of self‑determination. At Ulta Beauty, our tech team is critical to our scalability—and is recognized that way. We’ve been defined as a “mature start‑up.” A place where interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaboration is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring agility, mental dexterity, and creativity.

Where our passion for better solutions drives us and is core to who we are.

We’re engineering for the future of retail, and it’s no‑holds‑barred. But for those motivated by continual change and ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whipping‑smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you’ll find that virtually nothing’s impossible at Ulta Beauty.

• Own and drive a multi‑year product strategy and roadmap for the merchandising technology portfolio, spanning Merchandise Financial Planning, Assortment & Item Planning, Allocation & Replenishment, Inventory Management, and Pricing & Promotions, delivering measurable improvements in revenue, margin, and inventory productivity.
• Prioritize, manage, and deliver multiple high‑impact initiatives across planning, buying, pricing, and inventory domains, ensuring execution against business outcomes such as GMROI, sell‑through, forecast accuracy, markdown optimization, and in‑stock performance.
• Lead and govern portfolio‑level product planning, translating enterprise merchandising and financial strategies into sequenced, outcome‑based product roadmaps across multiple product teams and platforms.
• Define and own the product vision, OKRs, and performance metrics for all merchandising technology products, ensuring alignment to commercial objectives, customer experience, and operational efficiency.
• Diagnose complex business and technology challenges across planning, pricing, and inventory ecosystems, and drive scalable, data‑driven solutions that improve decision quality and speed to market.
• Continuously assess the competitive and vendor landscape across retail planning, pricing, and inventory platforms, identifying opportunities to introduce differentiated capabilities and modernize the merchandising technology stack.
• Partner closely with Merchandising, Planning, Pricing, Supply Chain, and Finance leaders to shape future‑state business processes and translate them into enabling digital capabilities.
• Oversee the design of end‑to‑end merchandising user experiences, ensuring planners, merchants, and pricing teams have intuitive, analytics‑driven tools that support faster and better decisions.
• Set product management standards, operating models, and objectives across the merchandising portfolio, establishing consistent practices for discovery, prioritization, delivery, and value realization.
• Serve as the primary product leader and executive liaison for strategic merchandising technology vendors (e.g., planning, pricing, allocation, and forecasting platforms), influencing their roadmaps to align with enterprise priorities.
• Lead and develop multiple product teams, including Product Group Leads, Product Managers, Product Owners, and Analysts, ensuring tight alignment between business strategy, platform delivery, and measurable outcomes.
• Partner with Technology, Data & Analytics, and Enterprise Architecture leadership to align platform strategy, data models, and integration patterns in support of end‑to‑end merchandising workflows.
• Champion innovation across the merchandising ecosystem, including advanced analytics, AI‑driven forecasting, price optimization, and automated replenishment, to continuously enhance competitive advantage and financial performance.

• Stay abreast of retail, merchandising, pricing, inventory, and technology trends—including AI‑driven forecasting, price optimization, and omnichannel inventory models—to identify new capabilities and inform future‑state product strategy that drives incremental revenue, margin expansion, and inventory productivity.
• Serve as a senior thought leader and advocate for…