Digital Product Manager

Job Description

Fox Television Stations is one of the nation's largest owned-and-operated network broadcast groups, comprising 29 stations in 18 markets and covering over 37% of U.S. television homes. This includes seven duopolies in the top 10 markets: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Houston; as well as duopolies in Minneapolis, Phoenix, Orlando and Seattle.

JOB DESCRIPTION
We're hiring a Digital Product Manager to support the team behind NewsNOW, FOX TV Stations' national live streaming news product. Reporting to the VP Digital Product, Digital Product Manager will work closely with the NewsNOW editorial and production teams to develop, deliver and drive our product vision and roadmap, as well as manage the day-to-day product process and function within an agile framework.

The ideal candidate will exhibit product vision, excellent communication and a natural ability to collaborate with business, marketing, creative and technical stakeholders with enthusiasm to deliver valuable products. The role requires someone with keen business acumen, broad understanding of the digital video landscape, and finger on the pulse of trends in multi-platform video streaming and distribution. We are seeking candidates with a fervor for driving innovation and delivering market-leading solutions to address our audience and business needs. You should excel in a fast-paced agile environment where you will distill large-scale business initiatives into actionable engineering tasks that when shipped will result in effective and measurable product features.

RESPONSIBILITIES: Collect editorial and sales stakeholder inputs to inform product roadmap with data-driven features that enhance the user experience. Lead and implement various product initiatives from concept to launch. Manage multi-platform product portfolio encompassing website, mobile and OTT applications. Own and optimize content publishing, delivery, and distribution pipelines ensuring NewsNOW content is available when and where our viewers are. Conduct and lead project definition activities including business requirement gathering, site assessment, competitive analysis, etc. Own project timelines and drive deliverables to completion. Facilitate the communication throughout the development process between multiple internal teams including engineering, marketing, editorial, and digital sales. Stay abreast of industry trends and emerging technologies in order to provide sound product recommendations and updates to executive management. Other duties as assigned.

REQUIREMENTS: Minimum 5+ years of overall product management experience preferred. Minimum 3+ years managing consumer facing digital video products preferred. Must be comfortable managing and collaborating with a diverse set of technical and non-technical stakeholders, such as producers, designers and developers. Heavy analytical, problem solving, project management and organizational skills. Passion for usability. Good eye for consumer-friendly design. Strong attention to detail. Excellent written and oral communication skills. Strong leadership instincts, business judgment, understanding of current web trends and technologies, and mastery of product management best practices. Solid understanding of advertising performance and site monetization in order to incorporate into product features seamlessly. Exceptional organizational and quantitative analytical skills. Experience with site optimization and using A/B multivariate testing. Proven ability to distill business and product requirements into actionable tasks for creative and development team members. Understanding of information architecture strongly preferred. Experience with user experience documentation including sitemaps, wireframes, interaction designs, use cases and navigation models strongly preferred. UX/UI design experience a plus. Front-end programming skills a plus. Thrive under pressure. Varied hours including weekends and holidays as required. Will consider remote work from Phoenix, Orlando or other east coast location.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gkbo5k-3-147-42-168-42 in your application.