
Senior Product Manager – Temporary Worker
dentsu Austria
part-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $66 - $88 per hour
Job Level
About the role
- Audit existing processes, workflows, and tools to surface inefficiencies and misalignment across teams
- Conduct stakeholder interviews across leadership, research ops, analytics, managed services, and marketing/sales to understand priorities and pain points
- Lead competitive benchmarking to evaluate Merkle's capabilities against key market players
- Develop customer journey maps to visualize the end-to-end research experience and identify opportunities for data enrichment
- Synthesize customer feedback and conduct discovery interviews to validate opportunities and ground recommendations in the voice of the customer
- Partner with leadership to define success metrics, set measurable goals, and ensure initiatives deliver both customer and business value
- Collaborate with executive and commercial teams on pricing strategy and market positioning
- Author Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) capturing problem statements, objectives, target users, technical requirements, risks, and success metrics
- Facilitate stakeholder alignment sessions and drive consensus across functions
- Define phased implementation plans that balance speed-to-value with feasibility
- Build and manage a product backlog, translating strategy into epics, user stories, and technical tasks
- Partner with engineering and analytics leadership on resourcing, capacity planning, and execution
- Drive cross-team coordination to ensure iterative, on-time delivery
- Monitor progress, manage risks, and oversee pilot releases to validate assumptions and demonstrate early value
- Develop enablement materials including training guides, playbooks, and FAQs for internal and client-facing audiences
- Lead training sessions to support adoption of new workflows, tools, and data solutions
- Coordinate with sales and marketing to align enablement with client messaging and commercial initiatives
- Define KPIs for key use
- Track, analyze, and report on performance outcomes to leadership
- Continuously refine the roadmap based on data, client feedback, and evolving business needs
Requirements
- 10+ years of product management experience, preferably in data, market research, or analytics-driven environments
- Proven ability to translate complex data and technical concepts into clear product strategies and stakeholder-ready communications
- Experience working with large-scale datasets and data enrichment or audience targeting solutions
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with the ability to align diverse stakeholders around a shared vision
- Proficiency in writing PRDs, building roadmaps, and managing agile backlogs
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Experience with competitive analysis, customer discovery, and journey mapping
- Familiarity with managed services and analytics/engineering team dynamics is a plus
Benefits
- Temporary employees are eligible for paid holidays in accordance with dentsu policy
- Safe and sick time
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product managementdata analysiscustomer journey mappingcompetitive analysisstakeholder interviewswriting PRDsagile methodologiesdata enrichmentaudience targetingperformance tracking
Soft Skills
cross-functional collaborationcommunication skillspresentation skillsleadershipconsensus buildingproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingstakeholder alignmenttraining and enablementadaptability