Senior Product Manager - Retail Planning

The role

You will own product strategy and execution for major Retail Planning workflows across Hardlines and Softlines. You will build AI-driven capabilities that automate or assist planning decisions for retailers.

What you will do

• Own product strategy and execution for major Retail Planning workflows across Hardlines and Softlines.
• Develop understanding of how retailers make assortment, inventory, allocation, replenishment, and pricing decisions.
• Translate planning problems into product primitives, workflows, and capabilities.
• Work directly with retailers and planners to identify system breakdowns and improvements.
• Define product requirements, prioritize the roadmap, and drive products from discovery to launch.
• Identify planning decisions that AI agents can analyze, recommend, orchestrate, or execute autonomously.
• Design human-agent interactions for planners.
• Work with AI/ML and engineering teams on products that reason across retail data.
• Spend time with planning teams, operators, and retail leaders.
• Define clear measures of success for owned capabilities.

Required qualifications

• 6+ years of Product Management experience, ideally building complex B2B, enterprise, data, planning, optimization, or decision-support products.
• Strong understanding of retail planning, particularly within Hardlines and/or Softlines retail.
• Ability to understand complex business systems and reduce them into clear product abstractions.
• Strong product judgment.
• Comfortable working with data-heavy products and collaborating with engineering, data science, and AI/ML teams.
• Excellent customer discovery skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Comfortable operating in an environment with significant ambiguity, high autonomy, and a high bar for execution.

Nice to have

• Experience working on problems involving assortment, inventory, allocation, replenishment, merchandising, pricing, forecasting, or adjacent planning domains.
• Built products used by merchandise planners, inventory planners, allocators, buyers, or other retail planning teams.
• Worked inside a major retailer or closely with enterprise retail customers.
• Built AI-native or agentic products.
• Naturally question whether a workflow needs to exist at all before optimizing it.
• Enjoy domains where product management requires learning the underlying business deeply enough to debate with experts.

About the company

Lyric is an enterprise AI platform built specifically for supply chains. It offers out-of-the-box AI solutions and a platform-first approach for optimizing networks, inventory, and planning.