About the Launchpad Program
The tech industry is constantly evolving, creating new opportunities and challenges for businesses globally. If you're looking to break into Tech, we've developed a program where you will have the opportunity to engage with tech leaders, develop your skills, and learn more about our culture while advancing your career. In this program, you will gain hands-on experience in your targeted discipline and lay the groundwork for the future of tech. If you want to make a difference in your work and community, you'll find a home here at Lowe's.
This program offers experience to candidates who want to break into tech by following our program timeline below:
Orientation • 1 Week
• Learn Lowe's policies, benefits, and business strategy
• Hands-on integration with Lowe's culture
• Learn tech processes, systems, and operations
Bootcamp • 8 Weeks
• Fast-paced learning in targeted discipline
• Dedicated coaching with a structured curriculum
• Skills assessments
• Individual & Group Projects
Rotation 1 & 2 • 12 Months
• Rotations in different areas of Tech
• Hands-on experience & meaningful work
• Professional development
Final Placement
On completion of Launchpad, you are matched with a Tech team that best suits your interests to continue advancing your career and driving big changes with Lowe's.
You'll gain valuable skills and a place to connect with tech leaders, all while finding full-time job placement in this expanding industry.
Job Description
• Works with peers to understand objectives and key results (OKRs) and operates inside a well-defined scope. Supports experienced product managers to understand vision and build OKRs that are aligned with business partners.
• Works with more senior team members to review and design smaller scope features/stories, engaging in usability testing where appropriate.
• Writes clear user stories to ensure delivery of high-quality features. Maps features to user value.
• Participates in agile ceremonies and works with the team to provide clarity of expectations.
• Influences feature deliverables. Influences the backlog for engineering team priorities to support small feature delivery. Drives incorporation of customer feedback into backlog.
• Works with leads and senior managers in aligning necessary work from partners to achieve the value of the features.
• Participates in product marketing and uses it to drive deep understanding of a defined scope of features. Provides data for a defined scope of features and partners with leads and senior managers to help drive alignment.
• Seeks to provide input while partnering with leads and senior managers to define objectives and data required for analytics needed, and to develop functional and technical OKRs/metrics and create corresponding data/analytics to track the health and business impact.
• Consistently monitors health of the product for pre-determined key metrics.
• Partners with engineering to build tracking/monitoring needed to get to the data for a defined scope of features.
Required Qualifications:
• High School Diploma or equivalent
• Completion of coursework or program focused on software development or related skills (e.g., technology related college coursework, bootcamp, certification program, coding academy)
Preferred Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, engineering, communications, or related field
• Master's degree in a related field
• 1 year of experience in product management, project management, product design, business analysis, program management, product marketing, experimentation or related area
• Experience with a Big 4 consulting firm
• Strong financial acumen
Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.
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What We Do
It’s curious to think of innovation and stability co-existing. But we pair a 100-year track record of success with a hunger to do things differently. Everyone is in the work — tackling complex problems where your impact can build back or build up the communities we serve.
We fill our halls with curious minds from all walks of life. Our differences make us stronger, which is why our leaders build cultures of recognition and inclusion. You are heard, and your curiosities are celebrated and championed here.
Why Work With Us
We have built a space where the curious can move freely. Up in title, up in skills, to the side with teams, or back to try something completely new. We help you find your path — because when you win, we all win.
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