Product Manager
iHeartMedia
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $92,000 - $115,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Own and define the product roadmap for their product lines
- Clearly define user personas including identification of user problems and serve as user evangelist
- Research our customers and the market generally, to understand, validate and become an expert in their challenges and problems
- Analyze usage of our existing products to understand how customers are interacting with our solutions and if they are achieving their goal
- Articulate product goals and measures of success to business
- Perform analysis of competitors and identify competitive threats
- Build consensus within the product and engineering teams on the correct product solutions to help solve customer problems
- Work with engineering teams to clearly scope and roughly size product solutions before we start development so we understand the time and effort required to build those solutions
- Helping validate product hypotheses with surveys, usage analytics, A/B testing, etc.
- Clearly define user personas including identification of user problems and serve as user evangelist
- Direct research efforts of Business Analysts and project managers
- Run brainstorming & interview sessions with end users
- Write clear, coherent user stories with detailed acceptance criteria
- Generate simplified wireframes and design mocks to define user flow
- Lead groomings, standups, post mortems and negotiate feature build out with engineering teams
- Conduct timely product reviews and sign-offs of new features and work with engineering to thoroughly user-test and ensure resulting build matches what was committed to in each sprint
- Guide go-to-market strategy for new features and products, including consumer-ready communications for marketing & sales teams
- Attend daily stand ups and biweekly sprint planning with engineering teams to obliterate blockers, manage dependencies / prerequisites while product is being developed
Requirements
- 3-5 years experience in product management, product development, product design or similar field
- Very strong verbal and communication skills
- Familiarity or experience with Agile and scrum software development processes
- Strong organizational skills and ability to handle multiple tasks
- Strong analytical problem solving and solution finding skills
- Very strong writing and presentation skills (including but not limited to describing simple user stories, jobs-to-be-done requirements for engineering teams, value proposition statements, etc)
- Experience working in SaaS organizations and comfortable working within large, cross-functional teams that include engineering, customer success, marketing, and sales
- Relevant industry experience, either with marketing & advertising technology or developing on Facebook & other social APIs
- Positive, upbeat and customer-service oriented
- Ability to manage changing priorities within a highly dynamic environment
- Ability to perform duties with limited oversight
- Willing and able to learn new skills as required
Benefits
- Employer sponsored medical, dental and vision with a variety of coverage options
- Company provided and supplemental life insurance
- Paid vacation and sick time
- Paid company holidays, including a floating holiday that enable our employees to celebrate the holiday of their choosing
- A Spirit day to encourage and allow our employees to more easily volunteer in their community
- A 401K plan
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) at no cost – services include telephonic counseling sessions, consultation on legal and financial matters, emotional well-being, family and caregiving
- A range of additional voluntary programs, such as spending accounts, student loan refinancing, accident insurance and more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
verbal communicationorganizational skillsanalytical problem solvingwriting skillspresentation skillscustomer service orientationability to manage changing prioritiesability to work with limited oversightcollaborationleadership