Senior Merchandising Operations Program Manager

Chewy Chewy · Retail · Boston, MA

This role focuses on developing and executing the strategy for voice programs and user experience improvement within Chewy's Merchandising Operations. The individual will design feedback mechanisms, translate insights into business cases, and influence product and operational roadmaps to enhance vendor and user experiences. The role requires strong strategic thinking, analytical skills, and the ability to drive change in an ambiguous environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the strategy for voice programs and experience improvement across vendors, Category Managers, other internal users of the Chewy Partner Hub, and related workflows.
  2. Design and scale feedback mechanisms across multiple channels, including surveys, interviews, roundtables, workflow reviews, targeted module feedback, ticket-response analysis, and other structured listening channels.
  3. Build and maintain a centralized feedback-to-action process that consolidates insights across channels, identifies recurring themes, routes issues to the right partner teams, and tracks action through completion.
  4. Translate qualitative and quantitative inputs into clear business problem statements, impact statements, desired outcomes, and prioritized recommendations for Product, Operations, Enablement, and other cross-functional teams.
  5. Partner with Product and related stakeholders to influence roadmap prioritization by connecting user pain points to operational, adoption, financial, and experience data.

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years of business experience in ecommerce, retail, product management, program management, user experience, vendor management, or a related field.
  • 2+ years of experience as a Product Manager, UX researcher, Program Manager, ecommerce vendor, or in a comparable role requiring customer insight generation and cross-functional influence.
  • Strong business acumen and proven ability to connect user feedback to business outcomes, operational metrics, and prioritization decisions.
  • Experience gathering and synthesizing feedback through multiple mechanisms, including surveys, interviews, workshops, operational reviews, or similar methods.
  • Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous inputs into clear insights, structured recommendations, and action plans.
  • Strong strategic and analytical skills, including the ability to connect data, anecdote, observation, and business context into a compelling narrative.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build trust and influence cross-functional stakeholders at multiple levels.
  • Proven ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments, identify the highest-impact opportunities, and create structure where processes do not yet exist.
  • Experience influencing product, process, or support decisions without direct authority.
  • Bachelor’s degree required.

Nice to have

  • Passion for improving user experience and simplifying complex workflows for customers and internal teams.
  • Creative thinker with the ability to connect dots in ways others may not, uncover hidden impact areas, and drive meaningful change.

What the JD emphasized

  • lead the strategy
  • builder who can create structure where it does not exist today
  • design listening mechanisms
  • connect anecdotal feedback to operational and financial data
  • identify patterns across multiple channels
  • turn those insights into compelling business cases that influence roadmaps and drive measurable change
  • critical to improving vendor and user experience over time
  • increasing trust in our tools and support model
  • helping Chewy prioritize the right investments for the greatest impact
  • strong business judgment
  • experience operating in ambiguity
  • strong communicator who earns trust quickly
  • sees connections others miss
  • translate feedback, data, observation, and context into a clear narrative that drives action
  • scale feedback mechanisms
  • centralized feedback-to-action process
  • consolidates insights across channels
  • identifies recurring themes
  • routes issues to the right partner teams
  • tracks action through completion
  • Translate qualitative and quantitative inputs
  • clear business problem statements
  • impact statements
  • desired outcomes
  • prioritized recommendations
  • influence roadmap prioritization
  • connecting user pain points to operational, adoption, financial, and experience data
  • Develop practical frameworks
  • feedback can be interpreted in the right context
  • prioritization can be based on user impact
  • Identify where pain points should be addressed
  • partner with the right teams to make those recommendations reality
  • Build business cases and impact models
  • connect sentiment improvements and workflow improvements to measurable outcomes
  • time savings
  • cost avoidance
  • adoption gains
  • stronger vendor engagement
  • downstream commercial benefit
  • Assess the current end-to-end experience
  • identify breakdowns and opportunities
  • make data-backed recommendations for improvement
  • Define the strategy for vendor-facing help content and support content
  • identifying what information users need
  • where it should live
  • what tooling or platform is required
  • Use trade shows, field engagement, and direct user interaction
  • deepen understanding of vendor segments
  • category-specific needs
  • experience gaps
  • Partner closely with Product, Vendor Experience Operations, Enablement, Analytics, and business stakeholders
  • ensure agreed actions are progressing
  • outcomes are reviewed after launch or process change
  • 6+ years of business experience
  • 2+ years of experience as a Product Manager, UX researcher, Program Manager, ecommerce vendor, or in a comparable role requiring customer insight generation and cross-functional influence
  • Strong business acumen
  • proven ability to connect user feedback to business outcomes, operational metrics, and prioritization decisions
  • Experience gathering and synthesizing feedback through multiple mechanisms
  • Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguous inputs into clear insights, structured recommendations, and action plans
  • Strong strategic and analytical skills
  • connect data, anecdote, observation, and business context into a compelling narrative
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • build trust and influence cross-functional stakeholders at multiple levels
  • Proven ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments
  • identify the highest-impact opportunities
  • create structure where processes do not yet exist
  • Experience influencing product, process, or support decisions without direct authority
  • Passion for improving user experience and simplifying complex workflows for customers and internal teams
  • Creative thinker
  • connect dots in ways others may not
  • uncover hidden impact areas
  • drive meaningful change
  • Bachelor’s degree required