Product Manager

Job Description

Responsibilities
About Us
NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal operates 30 news and entertainment cable networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, television production operations, television station groups, Universal Pictures and Universal Parks & Resorts.

About the Role
Do you enjoy digging into data, finding insights and opportunities, and using your creativity to make good things great? Have you been called ''consumer-centric?'' Do you excel at communicating up, down, left, and right across an organization?

As part of the Product team, you will serve as an expert on metadata, sports results data, CMS tools, and workflow within several NBCUniversal's direct-to-consumer digital properties, including NBC Sports, NBC Olympics, Golf Channel, and NBC Entertainment. You will maintain a strong understanding of how our multiple complex systems interact, and ensure it scales as we add more variables into the systems. The successful candidate likes to solve problem and know their way around data structure. This is a highly cross-functional role and will require the consummate team player to be successful. Are you someone that can think big and then roll up your sleeves to get it done?

Responsibilities
• Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritize backlog of user stories for implementation
• Write, prioritize, and accept product user stories
• Partner with the Design/UX, Engineering, PMO, Editorial/Operations, and Product Marketing teams on projects and work closely with them to ensure product specifications meet their needs, understand current challenges, identify opportunities to innovate and improve
• Plan and perform analysis of content management processes and guides the subsequent design and implementation or improvement
• Developing and ensuring timely delivery of data products to internal and external clients, including data science teams, content management systems, digital streaming systems and media distributors.
• Collaborate with other members of the product team
• Be a strong and vocal voice of the consumer
• Develop and nurture relationships with external platform partners and technology vendors
• Mentor or manage other members of the product team
• Keep on top of industry trends, technologies, and techniques

Qualifications/Requirements
Qualifications:
• Proven Product Management experience, preferably working on CMS platforms or as mixed role of Developer / Product Manager
• Strong understanding of technology platforms and how data flows between applications
• Understanding of media production workflows, digital video product workflow
• Knowledge of web technologies (e.g., APIs, HTML/CSS/JS, etc.), content management systems, and experience of Taxonomy and API
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to logically analyze complex requirements, data sets, processes and systems
• Solid understanding of application integrations with technology partners such as Yahoo, Apple, Google, Amazon and MVPD integrators like Charter & Xfinity
• Ability to quickly understand and operate comfortably within complex ecosystems

Eligibility Requirements:
• Interested candidates must submit a resume/CV online to be considered
• Must be able to work in Stamford, CT
• Willingness to travel and work extended hours, and on weekends with short notice as needed
• Must have work authorization to work in the United States
• Must be 18 years or older
• Must be covered by Solutions, NBCU's Alternative Dispute Resolution Program

Desired Characteristics
• Driven to find and improve solutions
• Detail oriented and organized
• Ability to perform effectively in a rapidly changing environment with new tools and technologies
• Understanding of best practices of effective and scalable API development
• Self-starter who can work autonomously
• Analytics and strategic thinking, solid decision-making skills
• Comfortable working in a collaborative, competitive, fast-paced environment
• Proven ability to lead meetings and workshops to drive to conclusion and next steps
• Curious in nature and able to balance what the data says with what your gut tells you

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rn882m-18-117-142-248-42 in your application.