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.

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 whip smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you’ll find that virtually nothing’s impossible at Ulta Beauty.

The Senior Director of Product Management, Merchandising Technology is a critical leadership role within the Product organization, serving as the strategic bridge between Merchandising, Planning, Supply Chain, Finance, and Technology. This leader owns the vision, roadmap, and outcomes for the enterprise merchandising technology portfolio, including Merchandise Planning, Inventory Management, and Pricing & Promotions platforms that directly drive revenue, margin, inventory productivity, and customer experience.

This role is the strategic product leader for multiple product teams responsible for delivering modern, data-driven merchandising capabilities that enable the organization to plan, buy, price, allocate, and replenish product with speed, precision, and financial discipline. The Senior Director acts as an enterprise evangelist for product-led merchandising, translating complex business strategies into scalable digital solutions that improve decision-making, optimize inventory, and accelerate time-to-market.

This individual is a highly proficient business and technology leader who partners with Merchandising, Planning, Pricing, Supply Chain, Finance, and IT to drive the continuous evolution of the company’s core merchandising platforms. They will lead the identification, evaluation, and incubation of innovative solutions—including advanced analytics, AI-driven forecasting, and optimization technologies—and assess their impact through pilots and experimentation to determine enterprise-wide scalability and ROI.

The Senior Director directly leads, develops, and mentors a team of Product Managers, Product Owners, and Analysts, fostering a culture of customer-centricity, data-driven prioritization, and disciplined product delivery. They ensure that teams are aligned to clear business outcomes such as GMROI, forecast accuracy, sell-through, markdown reduction, and inventory turns.

The ideal candidate is a strategic, innovative product executive who can envision how modern merchandising technology enables competitive advantage, financial performance, and omnichannel excellence. This role works in close partnership with senior business leaders, engineering, data & analytics teams, and external platform vendors to define requirements, shape platform strategy, and deliver high-impact capabilities in a highly collaborative, fast-paced retail environment

• 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…