Product Manager

Job Description

WHO ARE YOU?

You communicate the vision for your team and then make it happen. You work with leadership to refine your team's vision and set roadmaps for how you'll solve those challenges. You know how to turn vision into goals, goals into roadmap, and a roadmap into daily and weekly tasks for your team. You excel at solving cross-functional team problems and have experience working with marketers, developers and designers. You know how to get results. Through collaboration with your team, you routinely deliver meaningful results for the business. You strive for the most effective and efficient solutions. You learn and course correct when you don't get the results you want.

You are data driven. You use data to uncover opportunities and understand what levers to pull to drive business results. You know how to measure the results of your work, test it with real users, and understand its downstream effects. You consider the long-term impacts of experiments and look for more than just short-term boost to metrics.

You have ample technical, design, and analytics skills. While you may or may not know how to code, you have technical knowledge to support yourself and your team. You use your technical context to make better, faster decisions and to minimize technical debt. You understand design patterns and can create functional specs and wireframes. You also use self-serve data exploration tools to support your own decision making. While you'll have resources on your team that are experts in these areas, you can fill in the gaps whenever needed.

You are a skilled written communicator. You can use written communication to communicate your team's vision, roadmap, and progress. You know the right tool for the job whether it's managing the day-to-day cadence of projects or building cross-company momentum around a project.

You'll partner closely with other internal Marketing divisions to define new opportunities, tools, and processes for how these teams can scale their impact.

Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on!

THE JOB

Live Nation is looking for a highly motivated and organized product manager to join the concerts marketing organization. This role will work cross functionally with internal and external stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the marketing team through technology tools and systems. This role will see projects through from discovery and conception to implementation and launch and will play a key role in each step of the journey. The ideal candidate will set targets and key metrics to monitor the effectiveness of their product after launch to identify opportunities to improve our processes as business needs evolve.

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO
• Gain a deep understanding of marketing tools and systems, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that support the efficiency of marketing operations and ultimately drive the growth of the LN business
• Create buy-in for the product vision both internally (marketing) and with key external (other LNE teams) partners
• Translate product strategy into detailed requirements and prototypes
• Scope and prioritize activities based on business impact
• Work closely with developers to deliver with quick time-to-market and optimal resources
• Drive product launches including working with internal stakeholders, executives, and other product management team members
• Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding
• Solicit feedback on marketing products and services from key users of our products to identify areas for improvement
• Develop timelines, prioritize tasks, plan resources, identify risks and contingency plans
• Utilize trends and knowledge of the competitive landscape to identify gaps in the current product
• Develop a sufficient understanding of technical context to help make better, faster decisions, and work closely with engineers on solutions

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING
• MS/BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent preferred
• Experience with Salesforce, Slack, Asana, Zapier, Lucid Charts and other SaaS software
• Proven work experience in product management or as an associate product manager
• Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle
• Proven ability to develop product and marketing strategies and effectively communicate recommendations to executive management
• Superior project management skills are a must for timely and effective delivery
• The ability to self-prioritize is critical to achieve deadlines, while maintaining an exceptional attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills and confidence in managing and influencing varying levels of stakeholders
• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development and web technologies
• Strong problem-solving skills and willingness to roll up one's sleeves to get the job
• Highly organized and detail oriented.
• Adaptable to changing needs and priorities and are able to pivot easily to achieve goals and deadlines.
• Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrix organization
• A creative mindset and problem-solving aptitude
• Strong time management skills and attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

BENEFITS & PERKS - Our motto is 'Taking Care of Our Own' through 6 pillars of benefits:
• HEALTH: Medical, Dental and Vision benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
• YOURSELF: Paid time off policy including holidays, sick time and day off for your birthday, free concert tickets
• WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, Stock Program Reimbursement
• FAMILY: New parent programs & support including caregiver leave and baby bonus, infertility support
• CAREER: Tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment internal growth and development programs & trainings
• OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding network

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

We also afford equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Live Nation will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant consistent with its legal obligations to do so, including reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy in accordance with applicable local, state and / or federal law. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Live Nation also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact a Human Resources Representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process. Live Nation will also provide reasonable religious accommodation

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gk353q-3-129-13-201-42 in your application.