Senior Product Manager, Emerging Platforms
CNBC
Englewood Cliffs, NJThis was removed by the employer on 6/4/2018 9:40:00 AM PST
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Full Time Job
Responsibilities
We are looking for an entrepreneurial, highly motivated Senior Product Manager of Emerging Platforms to be part of a fun and dynamic team working on CNBC's portfolio of emerging digital products. As Podcasts, voice-first hardware (Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod), and digital assistant platforms (Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple Siri) emerge and play a bigger role in our lives, CNBC aims to establish itself as a leader in the business and finance categories.
Our ideal candidate has worked as a product manager in digital media and has overseen voice and audio products, including Alexa Skills, Actions on Google and/or Podcasts. You will build from existing ideas, and help to develop new ideas based on your experience and market research. You must possess a blend of business and technical savvy, a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. This role has a strategic element but will require strong tactical implementation skills and perseverance.
Responsibilities
• Formulate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for CNBC's digital experiences on emerging platforms, including voice and audio platforms
• Define business-level and implementation requirements and user stories for products to inform engineering delivery
• Create a prioritized backlog of user stories based on the roadmap
• Identify KPIs, track, and analyze performance of products to inform data-driven product enhancements
• Facilitate user research and evangelize lean UX / design thinking methodologies to inform product decisions
• Prepare and present strategic plans, recommendations, and product demonstrations to executives and stakeholders
• Inspire and lead delivery of an agile team consisting of engineers, QA engineers, designers, and project managers
• Collaborate with engineering, business development, marketing, editorial, finance, legal, and other internal stakeholder groups around initiatives
• Manage and build partnerships with major tech platform providers, including Amazon, Apple, and Google, as it relates to product initiatives
• Source and manage vendor relationships as required for product delivery and support
Qualifications/Requirements
• Bachelors or Masters degree with 3-5 years experience in Digital Media
• Ideally have hands on experience with building Amazon Alexa Skills and/or Actions on Google
• Passionate about developing consumer facing solutions using new technology and emerging platforms
• Enthusiastic about user research and design thinking approaches to product development
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Ability to self-start and work in a fast-paced environment
Desired Characteristics
• A highly motivated self-starter
• Detailed and organized
• Willing to work in Englewood Cliffs, NJ (free shuttles available from various locations)
• 1 years of experience in consumer-facing conversational interface / chatbot / virtual assistant product management
• 1 years of experience focused on audio-related initiatives, such as podcasts or radio
• Great interest in or business-level technical literacy with respect to APIs, NLP, AI, and personalization technology
Benefits Include:
Free shuttle service with WIFI
Gym onsite
Dry cleaner
and many more!!!