Product Manager, Memberships

Job Description

Why Hearst Magazines?

Hearst Magazines is one of the largest publishers in the world, with more than 25 brands, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper's BAZAAR, Popular Mechanics, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Runner's World, and many more. We reach more than 150 million people every month in the United States alone.

But we're more than just our magazines. We engage our audience across all mediums and channels - print, digital, video and social – with sophisticated content creation, distribution and data capabilities.  We create, package and sell products with cutting-edge technology and proprietary platforms. Together, we are reinventing media for the 21st century.

We're seeking an exceptional Product Manager to join the Membership team at Hearst's Media Platforms division. This opportunity plays a critical part in the development and evolution of a new and strategically significant product domain supporting Hearst's world-renowned publishing and lifestyle brands.

Hearst's Media Platforms division is Hearst's internal product, technology, and design group, spanning both CDS Global and Hearst Magazines. CDS Global is our business process solutions provider that uses its unique data and technology assets to support the entire consumer lifecycle of major publishers. Hearst Magazines' portfolio includes Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, House Beautiful, Country Living, Harper's BAZAAR, ELLE, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Men's Health, Women's Health, Bicycling, Runner's World, and many more.

Here You Will
• Leverage the resources of a successful, well-known business combined with the nimbleness and forward-looking feel of a startup
• Participate in the development and product management of the suite of tools supporting Hearst Magazines' fast-growing memberships business
• Work together with Hearst Magazines' Consumer Revenue team to implement membership experiences, enable experimentation, and identify feature improvements
• Contribute to the development of product strategy through market and competitive research, user engagement, business analysis, and problem identification
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, designers, and engineering teams to refine and execute a roadmap for Hearst's memberships and customer journey technology
• Participate in all aspects of the Agile development process, and be responsible for high-quality epics, stories, and acceptance criteria 
• Engage and align with stakeholders by communicating technical details to non-technical audiences, presenting to medium-to-large groups, and working effectively with vendors and partners
• Team up with key business stakeholders to implement membership experiences and identify feature improvements
• Participate in or lead the development and prioritization of target customers, end-users, and internal stakeholder needs
• Drive the development of strategies and execute plans to drive business value
• Define and communicate a portion of the product roadmap aligned with company objectives, supported by business cases, market research, customer data, and competitive analysis
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to build momentum and alignment
• Shepherd product concepts through execution, validation, and adoption
• Ensure appropriate customer research, usability testing, and rapid iteration
• Ensure a valuable and productive user experience
• Document, validate and prioritize product specifications within an Agile/SCRUM development environment
• Lead build vs. buy evaluations for key integrations ensuring we are investing prudently in core competencies and technologies and partnering where more appropriate

Bring You + Your
• Internet/Web/Mobile product management expertise
• Skill in managing and/or building consumer-facing experiences
• Familiarity with digital media businesses and subscription revenue models
• Experience content or multi-channel marketing campaign design and/or execution
• Proven track record of full responsibility through the product life cycle in a fast-paced, Agile environment-shipped highly successful products
• Ability to multi-task and handle multiple deliverables and projects at once, while meeting deadlines
• Highly collaborative with the ability to inspire others and push through barriers
• Extensive cross-functional and stakeholder exposure and management 
• Leadership Attributes-taking responsibility from inception to outcome
• Determining needs, aligning priorities, delivering to market, measuring outcomes, and seeking to build upon success
• Customer focus-deeply understands the market and unmet needs
• Love to create and deliver outstanding products that delight customers 
• Passion for constant innovation and to produce highly successful products
• Collaboration-building trust and strong relationships at all levels, influences without formal authority, pushing back when appropriate, earning respect while respecting and understanding the contributions of others
• Interpersonal communication- articulating the product strategy and roadmap presenting to senior executives
• Strategic thinking, understanding business goals and converting them into clear product plans, follows through with execution
• Critical Thinking and analytical point of view, using hard data to assess opportunities, metrics-driven, masterful in prioritization, overcomes obstacles to drive business outcomes
• Motivation to guide others with enthusiasm and passion, taking initiative, setting the context, listens, and finds compromises, drives for clarity, and accountability
• Technical acumen-keeping current with the latest trends and working with implementation teams to adapt to technical constraints without compromising end-user solutions
• Optimism and comfort with ambiguity and providing solutions

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g4x631-18-188-40-207-42 in your application.