Associate Product Manager

Job Description

Penguin Random House's Consumer Marketing team is looking for an associate product manager to support and execute on a product strategy for PenguinRandomHouse.com that drives engagement on site, improves content discovery and unlocks revenue.

Reporting to the associate director of product, this is an exciting opportunity for a junior product manager or someone with a marketing, product marketing or an adjacent background looking to transition into product management. Candidates should understand digital product development -- and have some experience with product roadmaps, consumer-facing product development and agile methodologies.

Who You Are:

You are a detail-oriented product manager (or product marketer) who has at least 1-2 years building successful digital products and working closely and collaboratively with developers, designers and business owners. You are an excellent communicator and a self-motivated person with proven success at execution. You love prioritizing work and thinking strategically to solve problems and build consensus among stakeholders.

What You Will Do:
• Work closely with lead product manager, who owns PRH.com, to manage the roadmap of incremental feature development
• Prepare and write user stories
• Collaborate with developers, designers/UX leads, and QA analysts on our team to bring these ideas to life through iterative design and development cycles to meet business goals
• Participate in ongoing user research, A/B testing and usability testing to further improve the platform
• Leverage data and analytics to identify opportunities for improvement or further investment in the platform
• Manage and groom the product backlog
• Collaborate in a hands-on way with other product managers on the team who support a growing portfolio of consumer-facing web applications and other digital products
• Participate in all agile rituals as part of our development cycles

Additional Skills/Qualifications:
• 1-2 years' experience as a product manager building consumer-facing products
• Facility with Basecamp, JIRA, Google Docs, Excel, Gantt Charts, PowerPoint, Word and other software/programs that would be conducive to documentation
• Exceptional time-management and personal organization skills
• Pro-active communicator with superlative written and verbal communication
• Ability to demonstrate flexibility in a fast-paced, changing development environment
• Experience working in marketing organizations or in publishing is not required -- but is a nice bonus

Full-time employees are eligible for our comprehensive benefits program. Our range of benefits include, but are not limited to, Medical/Prescription drug insurance, Dental, Vision, Health Care/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account, Pre-Tax and Roth 401(k), Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance, Life/AD&D Insurance, Commuter Benefits, Student Loan Repayment Program, Educational Assistance & generous paid time off.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d2ywj2-18-220-81-106-42 in your application.