**Position Purpose:**
We're seeking a Senior Product Manager to define and lead the strategic vision for how Orange Apron Media enables customers to manage and optimize creative assets.
You'll drive two key priorities: 1) Building a self-service platform that lets advertisers independently create and manage their own creative and 2) Improving internal workflows to reduce pain points in our managed services experience.
The ideal candidate is a strategic product leader who can design end-to-end solutions, navigate cross-functional complexity, and manage through ambiguity to create clarity.
**Key Responsibilities:**
+ 50% Strategy & Planning:
+ Seeks to empathize with and understand the end user deeply and use that knowledge to determine the fastest path to deliver value
+ Translates business goals and end user needs into product strategy; communicates direction and product priorities to the development team, other matrixed teams, and third-party partners
+ Identifies goals, metrics and analytics to determine product value; continually makes recommendations and refinements to the product backlog based on learnings
+ Manages and grooms the product backlog; makes future decisions based on the value that will be delivered
+ Partners with Finance to understand financial needs and assist in the creation of business plans for new opportunities
+ Monitors research as well as the competitive landscape to recommend the best solutions and ensure that products remain or become best in class
+ Ensures that product directions balance both the user needs and business goals of driving sales, improving efficiency and enhancing customer satisfaction
+ 20% Delivery & Execution:
+ Formulates, tests and refines assumptions and hypotheses through user research and testing
+ Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
+ Creates, prioritizes and accepts user stories; incorporate them into release planning
+ Makes product decisions that drive value on a daily basis
+ Identifies and considers pros, cons, issues, obstacles, dependencies and value associated with features and enhancements
+ Participates in standups, iteration planning sessions, product demo, and retrospectives
+ Condenses complex technical concepts into non-technical language for stakeholders
+ 30% People:
+ Fosters collaboration with team members (Engineering, UX, etc.) to drive value and identify and resolve impediments
+ Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
+ Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the product, empathizing with and understanding user needs
+ Works with the product team to continuously assess progress, disseminate lessons learned, and understand next steps
+ Manages cross functional team and stakeholder expectations to execute on product strategy and provides education to requestors to determine prioritization based on tangible benefits and/or user experience
+ Guides more junior team members in strategy, alignment, analysis and execution tasks
+ Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
+ Participates in talent acquisition, development and retention activities in support of team
**Direct Manager/Direct Reports:**
+ Typically reports to the Product Management Manager or Sr. Manager.
**Travel Requirements:**
+ Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.
**Physical Requirements:**
+ Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
**Working Conditions:**
+ Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
**Minimum Qualifications:**
+ Must be eighteen years of age or older.
+ Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
**Preferred Qualifications:**
+ 3-6 years of experience with AdTech, Retail Media Networks, OR Content Management Systems (CMS)
+ Experience working as a Product Manager in a modern software development based enterprise environment
+ Experience with modern software development product management practices and agile methodologies, specifically the extreme programming (XP) principles of paired programming, test driven development, and continuous deployment
+ Proficiency in communicating with and influencing functional and technical team members at all levels in the organization
+ Proficiency in working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern software design and development team
+ Proficiency in creating actionable product roadmaps
+ Proficiency in creating well-articulated and clear product requirement documents (PRDs)
+ Proficiency in prioritizing backlogs to maximize value
+ Proficiency in conducting discovery, user research, and testing to understand needs
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