Sr Product Owner, Cart & Checkout

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. Where 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 IMPACT YOU CAN MAKE:

The Sr Product Owner, Cart & Checkout, leads product ownership and execution for Ulta Beauty’s digital Bottom Funnel experience, with a focus on online Cart and Checkout across web, app and agentic commerce channels. The Sr Product Owner independently manages initiatives from discovery through launch, translates product strategy into a prioritized backlog, and drives cross-functional teams to deliver committed scope on schedule. The role uses funnel analytics, guest insights, and A/B testing to identify friction, improve conversion, and measure post-launch outcomes, while proactively communicating progress, risks, decisions, and next steps with minimal supervision. The role is trusted to lead ambiguous product work across multiple teams or systems, mentor Product Owners and Product Analysts, and improve product-delivery practices beyond its own backlog.

YOU’LL ACCOMPLISH THESE GOALS BY:

• Own the Cart & Checkout product backlog, including epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, prioritization, refinement, and release readiness across web and app.
• Translate Product Management priorities and business objectives into actionable delivery plans, milestones, measurable outcomes, and clear commitments for engineering and partner teams.
• Lead discovery and requirements definition for Cart & Checkout enhancements, using guest journeys, funnel performance, analytics, UX research, and technical input to identify friction and opportunities.
• Independently manage day-to-day execution with minimal supervision; track commitments and deadlines, remove blockers, manage dependencies, and escalate risks and trade-offs early with recommended actions.
• Coordinate Engineering, QA, UX, Analytics, Architecture, Operations, and business stakeholders to ensure timely decisions, end-to-end validation, and successful production launches.
• Monitor key Cart & Checkout metrics, including cart abandonment, checkout initiation and completion, conversion, payment success/failure, order placement, and funnel drop-off; independently pull basic reports and analyze trends using analytics tools.
• Partner with Analytics and UX to define hypotheses, success measures, and A/B tests; interpret experiment results and post-launch performance to recommend data-informed improvements.
• Lead product demos and stakeholder walkthroughs; maintain clear status updates, documented decisions, action items, owners, and prompt follow-ups on next steps.
• Own product execution and backlog strategy for complex, high-impact scope spanning multiple features, systems, teams, or stakeholder groups.
• Partner with Product Management to translate product vision and roadmap into sequenced outcomes, release strategies, epics, and measurable delivery plans.
• Mentor Product Owners and Product Analysts; strengthen story quality, discovery, prioritization, stakeholder partnership, and agile/product practices across the team.
• Champion responsible AI-enabled product practices and identify practical opportunities to improve research, analysis, documentation, experimentation, and delivery workflows.
• Support agentic commerce channel integration with Cart & Checkout, partnering with channel, architecture, engineering, and payment teams to define requirements, validate order and payment flows, and resolve cross-channel dependencies.

ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 5-7 years of hands-on digital product ownership experience focused on online Cart & Checkout in an Agile environment.
• Proven ability to own multiple initiatives, manage dependencies, and meet delivery commitments with minimal supervision
• Strong understanding of end-to-end guest purchase journeys, including pricing, promotions, third-party payments, authorization, order placement, and exception recovery.
• Ability to independently retrieve and interpret basic Cart & Checkout metrics using digital analytics tools..
• Demonstrated success leading complex product delivery across multiple teams, systems, dependencies, or stakeholder groups.
• Experience with A/B testing, guest insights, and data-informed product prioritization.
• Strong cross-functional communication, product demo, stakeholder management, and follow-through skills.
• Experience mentoring others and improving product ownership or agile delivery practices.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with enterprise-scale retail or omnichannel eCommerce, including payment methods, promotions, fulfillment options, checkout error handling, or order orchestration; familiarity with Adobe Analytics, or comparable tools.
• Experience with experimentation platforms, Jira/Jira Align, and Agile or Scrum practices; relevant Agile, Scrum, or product-management certification.

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The pay range for this position is $102,900.00 - $135,000.00 / Year with the opportunity for eligible associates to earn additional compensation pursuant to the Company’s bonus plan. Exact pay will be based on factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, level, shift, geographic location, and business and organizational needs. Full-time positions are eligible for paid time off, health, dental, vision, life and disability benefits. Part-time positions are eligible for dental, vision, life, and disability benefits. For additional information concerning our benefits, visit our Benefits and Career Development page: https://learn.bswift.com/ulta

ABOUT

At Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ: ULTA), the possibilities are beautiful. Ulta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer and the premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and salon services. We bring possibilities to life through the power of beauty each and every day in our stores and online with more than 25,000 products from approximately 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands across all categories and price points, including Ulta Beauty’s own private label. Ulta Beauty also offers a full-service salon in every store featuring—hair, skin, brow, and make-up services.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest records, conviction records, or other criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of any applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.