Senior Product Manager

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Senior Product Manager

An ideal candidate will have at least 5+ years of product management experience in Media and Data technology and a proven track record of end-to-end ownership and delivering results

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• Develop the strategy and execution of the process of collecting and importing data from various sources into a data processing system, such as a database, data warehouse, or data lake.
• Work closely with clients/prospects across the supply chain including Cable and Satellite providers, TV manufacturers, and publishers.
• Establish and execute product go-to-market strategy, product positioning and messaging in collaboration with Commercial and Marketing teams.
• Engage in Business Development activities, creating partnership and commercial opportunities in collaboration with Commercial and Marketing teams.
• Managing feature delivery timelines and communication with leaders and stakeholders on status, risks, and changes.
• Build and maintain deep understanding of the Big Data (Automatic Content Recognition, and Return Path Data) to guide decisions and identify new opportunities for product innovation to support the needs of the advertising platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide the best-in-class tools to build cost-effective and quality products for our global clients.
• Anticipating and evaluating risks and making trade-offs to deliver products that scale, quickly.
• Work cross-functionally with Engineers, Customer Experience and other Product Managers across various teams to deliver on the product roadmap.
• Create mechanisms to continuously monitor the success of our technology against the outcomes that matter most to our customers.
• Building strong partnerships with both technical and non-technical internal teams and integration teams externally to ensure product adoption and delivering value to large enterprise customers.
• Be the Big Data subject matter expert for internal and external clients, as well as third party auditing workstreams.
• Develop and own key performance metrics for your initiatives and guide deep dives as needed to diagnose anomalies, quality reporting, etc.
• Provide written guidance and documentation for sales and other cross-functional teams to support the product line

• 5+ years of product management experience.
• Subject matter expertise in Big data, working with clients and partners.
• Customer-value driven mindset with the capability of translating that into a clear product strategy and roadmap.
• Demonstrated ability to create great working relationships and product results.
• Product intuition; can delineate between must do, like to have, and won’t do.
• Critical thinker with strong problem-solving skills based on drawing insights from data.
• Strong negotiation skills and the ability to influence critical outcomes.
• Both detailed oriented and a big picture thinker with an ability to drive improvements to existing products and define new products.
• Experience with cross functional teams i.e. commercial, engineering, marketing and design teams to define, build and launch new products on time and on budget.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum work environment as a Product Manager or Product Owner: writing user stories, and following the development process through user story acceptance.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to communicate with both technical and non-technical cross-functional team members and stakeholders.
• Self-starter, with the ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher. Computer Science/Engineering/Design major is preferable or equivalent working experience.
• Experience working with media publishers, television manufacturers and/or Multichannel Video Programming Distributors.
• Experience in OTT, CE/CTV or supporting technology partners.
• Experience with SQL is a plus

Nielsen: Enabling your best to power a better media future. Our comprehensive benefits package (including health & wellness plans for full-time employees, 401(k) retirement coupled with a Nielsen match, a generous paid time off policy, and if eligible, a discretionary incentive/bonus) is designed to be inclusive for all employees and families, and we take pride in ensuring that employees are rewarded holistically for the role they are doing and their performance. 

A reasonable estimate of salary range for a new employee to be offered this role would be between $50,000-$185,000 which would be adjusted based on each employee's geographic location.  The position of each employee within a compensation range at Nielsen is dependent on several individual circumstances, such as experience, training, certifications and other business requirements/needs

Nielsen is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.

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