Kazunori Yoshida
Quincy,MA
Summary
Diligent Senior Product Manager offering 5 years of success in product roadmap development, user research and data analysis. Highly skilled in identifying opportunities. Driven and strategic with proven history of superior market penetration and product launch.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Manager
NISUM
10.2021 - Current
- Serve as Product Manager to retail client in Grocery Store space with thousands of stores as the product manager of their internal tools used by 600+ users of organization
- Primarily analyzing Trade Promotion Management, Pricing Optimization, and Product Cost Supply Management solutions, including SaaS solution
- Collaborate with multiple teams of engineers to gather technical requirements to decommission an existing tooling, and move the full feature of the application into a web-based modern design, 0-to-1
- Organize and conduct customer interviews for discoveries, gather requirements
- Document and create full feature set solutions, convert them into user stories, and manage the backlog
- Collaborate with UX designer to define the workflows and Product use cases, and assist with the UI design
- Define MVP scopes, create roadmaps and communicate release plans to the stakeholders
- Define product KPI and OKR, test the features against them and validate
- Run ad-hoc analysis to support the feature testing and validation
- Organize and run UAT sessions and manage defect and enhancement documentation, and enrich the backlogs
- Support the Scrum Masters for the Scrum ceremonies
- Function as Subject Matter Expert on the above solutions especially in areas of: Data integration among tools (including 3rd party integrations) for both ingestion of upstream incoming data and downstream outgoing data for solutions
- Analytics requirement and both in-tool reporting feature and data transformation to support downstream data-visualization tools for solutions.
Associate Product Manager
Shoes.com
10.2020 - 03.2021
- Serve as product lead/owner for five internal tools used by over 30% of organization
- These solutions cover data governance tool, pricing and promo management and warehouse management for planning, and purchase order management system
- Collaborate with six engineers to gather technical requirements to implement into monthly software releases
- Execute in fast paced agile environment by developing product roadmap and executing goals within two-week sprints
- Leverage technical tools such as Jira, Github, and Confluence to ensure documentation and measure progress of SDLC.
Senior Operations Associate
Shoes.com
07.2019 - 10.2020
- Responsible for automating 8 existing tools by implementing new technology and features to improve product efficiency
- Leverage data management technologies such as SQL and Excel to analyze catalog, inventory, sales and logistics data for product planning
- Collaborate with developers to drive analysis and process improvements across site/catalog
- Drive strategic decisions by leveraging site data to determine best products to be published on catalog.
Associate, Site Ops
Shoes.com
08.2005 - 07.2019
- Responsible for optimizing customer purchase behavior by prioritizing certain products for thousands of items within website catalog
- Conduct reporting by pulling data tables to monitor customer behavior and improve product placement within catalog
- Leverage user data to improve search engine optimization and improve site traffic.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Physics
05.1994
Skills
- Jira
- Confluence
- Excel
- SQL
- Python
- R
- Scrum
- Requirements Gathering
- Troubleshooting
- Tableau
- PowerBI
- Figma
- Balsamiq
- OKR
- Machine Learning
- UX / UI Design
- Visualization
- Snowflake
- Azure
- MongoDB
- Apache Cassandra
- Teaching
- Product Specification
- Problem Solving
- Product Delivery
- KPI Tracking
- Product Strategy
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Data-driven decision-making
- User Story Creation
- Product Development
- Product Vision and Strategy
- Agile Software Development
- Product Backlog Management
- Roadmap development
- Data Analytics
- User and UX Research
Certification
- Certified SAFe 5 Product Owner/Product Manager, Scaled Agile, Inc., https://www.credly.com/badges/e965e0d6-9f1c-4831-9bff-20b2c465f1ad/public_url
- Digital Product Management Specialization, Coursera, https://coursera.org/share/8d535a313a6d4a5a42f21eb38acd4ada
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Japanese
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Product Manager - NISUM
10.2021 - Current
Associate Product Manager - Shoes.com
10.2020 - 03.2021
Senior Operations Associate - Shoes.com
07.2019 - 10.2020
Associate, Site Ops - Shoes.com
08.2005 - 07.2019
Boston University - Bachelor of Science, Physics
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