Product Manager, Elections

Job Description

Responsibilities

NBC News Digital is looking for a product manager for our Elections team to help take our dynamic elections experiences to the next level and ensure NBC News' successful coverage in the lead up to and during the Presidential Election.

As a Product Manager on our Elections team, you'll own the strategy, execution and successful delivery of audience and revenue driving initiatives, developing features and insights across our market leading websites and apps. You will be part of a fast-paced, deadline-driven and high visibility team focused on delivering highly accurate, engaging and live updating experiences for NBC News' elections coverage which is consumed by millions of users. Your passion will be to discover, develop and ship products and features that deliver both meaningful benefits to our users and strategic business growth success for our company.

Day-to-day, you'll succeed by learning which solutions are simultaneously impactful, usable, valuable, and feasible, through product discovery, clear prioritization of effort, and collaborative design thinking. You'll connect regularly with customers to become a company expert on our audience, business, and industry. You'll lead and motivate a dedicated, cross-functional Agile team by communicating your vision, authoring user stories, optimizing team welfare and experience, actively prioritizing the backlog, and coordinating regularly and clearly with partners and stakeholders.

The Job
• Partner with Design, Engineering, Research, Marketing, Politics editors and the NBC News Decision Desk to make impactful decisions and ensure good communication and transparency
• Develop a subject matter expertise on elections, gaining a deep understanding of the backend data needed to create data visualizations
• Develop, coach and share a deep understanding of the customer, data, business, and industry
• Establish, articulate, and advocate product vision, strategy, and what business-facing success looks like
• Define and build consensus on meaningful metrics for success
• Prioritize upcoming sprints, features and enhancements in story backlog
• Build and maintain roadmap (annual and quarterly KPIs and OKRs) to ensure alignment and focus on resourcing, progress and success
• Create a clear path for defining value for users and business growth
• Author use cases and user stories and build shared understanding around user needs and the definition of ''done''
• Identify and implement opportunities to reduce technical, business and user experience debt
• Discover value-driven opportunities via product discovery experiments and methods
• Identify and map customer goals, values and needs rather than ''wants'' or ''table stakes''
• Inform decisions with unbiased qualitative and quantitative data
• Coordinate and collaborate with product peers and their teams to share learnings, leverage shared effort and ensure quality cross-platform experience

Qualifications

You:
• 3+ years of experience as a product manager with successful outcomes for digital products reaching millions of users.
• Strong product experience, combined with domain subject-matter expertise and proven thought leadership
• Experience with live and/or high visibility events
• Passion for news or politics
• User-centered thinking and a strong empathy for solving problems for customers
• Proven ability to deliver successful, valuable customer and business outcomes
• Exceptional written, spoken and visual communication skills
• Exceptional storytelling skills
• Exceptional organizational and analytical skills
• Strong user experience sensibilities
• Strong experience with analytics, and using user research to drive decisions
• Strong experience with Agile methodologies, sprints, prioritization and debt elimination
• Ability to speak fluently with business people, stakeholders, partners, engineers
• Experience in the media, news, or technology/internet industries
• Experience with Product Discovery, Design Thinking, Lean Product a plus

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page of the Careers website. Salary range: $130,000-$160,000.

Additional Information

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