Product Manager, Data and Insights

Job Description

The CBS Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of ViacomCBS, creates and distributes industry-leading content across a variety of platforms to audiences around the world. The Company has businesses with origins that date back to the dawn of the broadcasting age as well as new ventures that operate on the leading edge of media. It includes some of the industry's most successful and popular brands and businesses: CBS Television Network, CBS News and Stations, CBS Sports, CBS Studios, CBS Media Ventures and CBS digital properties.

Role Details:

CBS Interactive is looking for a talented and highly motivated individual with strong Product Management skills to join our Data and Insights Group.

Data plays a central role at CBS Interactive, and our Data & Insights Group (DIG) is a crucial part of our success. It drives business, product, and operational decisions by providing rich data, strategic insights, and analytical products. We are looking for a Product Manager who is passionate about data, entertainment, news, and sports who thrives in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing Data Products from the initial concept, to designing, development as well as promotion, and adoption. They will be responsible for maintaining product roadmaps, requirements, and moving the products forward in terms of features and functionality.

Your Day-to-Day:
• You will be working with data stakeholders, Product, and Business Intelligence teams to understand their needs with data insights as well as maintaining close relations between the groups.
• You will be documenting specifications and product requirements from your conversations with stakeholders.
• You will work closely with the Data Product & Engineering team, providing direction as to what products and enhancements are being sought by stakeholders.
• You will be responsible for the product roadmap and will work closely with Data Insights Group Management Team with helping drive their strategy.
• You will help foresee and resolve issues that affect the development timeline
• You will perform acceptance testing of data products, monitor data products and help ensure data quality
• Solicit and attend to user feedback, troubleshoot, and identify the next steps.
• Create and refine documentation to educate and train groups about The Data Management and Engineering team's offerings.
• Help drive adoption of products by introducing new products and features to our customers
• Act as a liaison between business owners and the Data Product development team.

Qualifications:

What you bring to the team:

You have –
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent preferred
• 4+ years of work experience in Product Management
• Proven work experience in product management.
• Proven ability to develop product strategies and effectively communicate recommendations to management.
• Solid technical background with understanding and/or hands-on experience in software development, including Data Management and Web Apps.
• Creative problem-solving skills, including the ability to articulate high-level technical solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to comprehend and break down technical documentation provided by vendors and partners.
• Knowledge of cloud and data warehouse technologies.

You might also have –
• Agile experience and familiarity with JIRA and Confluence.
• Working knowledge of Data Pipeline Engineering.
• Functional knowledge of client-side development in JavaScript and/or native mobile apps and front-end debugging.
• Experience creating training presentations
• Quality Assurance experience

ViacomCBS is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gmwvpx-18-118-120-109-42 in your application.