Job Description
Responsibilities
As senior product manager for our Storytelling Experiences team, you will work on creating engaging reading and viewing experiences on desktop and mobile web. You will work closely with editorial partners to create tools and features that highlight our NBC News journalism, breadth of content, and keep readers engaged and coming back for more. You'll thrive making impactful decisions for brands that customers know and trust, based on a deep understanding and ability to draw actionable insights from user data and research. 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 internal and external 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:
• 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
• Ensure good communication and transparency by partnering with internal teams including editorial, marketing, advertising, business development and others
• Coordinate and collaborate with product peers and their teams to share learnings, leverage shared effort and ensure quality cross-platform experience
Qualifications/Requirements
• 5+ 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
• Human-centered thinking and a strong empathy for
solving problems for customers
• Exceptional written, spoken and visual communication
skills
• Exceptional storytelling skills
• Exceptional organizational and analytical skills
• Proven ability to deliver successful, valuable customer
and business outcomes
• 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 media, video, news, or technology/internet
industries
• Experience with Product Discovery, Design Thinking,
Lean Product a plus
- Must submit an attestation disclosing your COVID-19
vaccination status and, if partially or fully vaccinated,
submitting your vaccination record no later than 7 days
following commencement of employment.
- Must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 at the
commencement of employment or adhere to enhanced
protocols if Company determines your job position
requires accessing an NBCUniversal worksite.
- Must be willing to adhere to all Company COVID-19
workplace safety policies and protocols.
Desired Characteristics
As the ideal candidate, you're a driven, passionate advocate for your customers and your business, with a sense of urgency to make things better wherever you are. You're always handy with a strong point of view, but you're open-minded and can admit when you're wrong. Your teams love working with you because you're a pleasure to be around and lead through inspiration and motivation rather than rules and hierarchies.
If this sounds like you, and you're excited to work with great people and the leader in news and lifestyle, we'd love to meet up!
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d21b95-44-212-50-220-42 in your application.