Product Manager, Content

Job Description

We are seeking an exceptional Product Manager to lead a team focused on products and services that allow our editors to more effectively package and recommend content to our readers, guiding them through our extraordinary body of content.

You will have the opportunity to work with editors and stakeholders at two of Hearst's brands, Oprah Daily and Alta Online, helping to develop more immersive, engrossing and enriching experiences for their audiences.

In this role, you will be working with a first-class engineering team to discover, plan and implement new story packaging and recirculation capabilities, as well as our editorial partners to align on best practices to support their unique audience goals.

You will be the collaborative product voice in the room that helps drive vision and execution through a well thought out and aligned roadmap.

Ideal candidates possess big-picture vision yet the drive and attention to detail to make that vision a reality. You enjoy solving complex business problems at the core of the digital transformation of a world-leading media company. You are creative and capable of formulating bold product initiatives. You balance strategic thinking with outstanding execution - holding yourself and your team accountable for delivering successful outcomes.

Qualifications:

Experience
• You are product obsessive, with 3-5 years in Digital product management, with expertise in digital media.
• You have a proven track record managing products in fast-paced, Agile environments. You have shipped successful products.
• You have experience building or customizing content management and user experience tools. You have delivered features and products that simplify user experiences and streamline workflows.
• You can support multiple deliverables and projects at once, sticking to deadlines.
• You are a creative problem solver who uses all available tools during discovery, planning and issue triage. You proactively learn how to use new tools as needed.
• You are highly collaborative, with the ability to inspire others and push through barriers

Skills
• Leadership. You take responsibility from inception to outcomes, determining needs, aligning priorities, delivering to the market and measuring outcomes.
• Highly collaborative. You build trust and strong relationships at all levels, influence without formal authority, push back when appropriate, earn respect and respect the contributions of others.
• Excellent communicator. You can articulate the product strategy and roadmap and describe how the problem at hand aligns with those objectives. You are experienced and comfortable gaining alignment and in presenting to senior executives.
• Strategic thinker. You convert business objectives into clear product plans and follow through on execution.
• Results-oriented. You can use both hard and soft data to assess opportunities. You are metrics-driven, and ruthless about prioritizing work to move those metrics. You are comfortable gathering data from multiple sources and synthesizing it into accessible information for nontechnical stakeholders.
• An owner and a motivator. You take the initiative, set the context, listen and find compromises. You push for clarity. You are hard working and accountable.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rjwn30-18-117-196-184-42 in your application.