Product Manager

Company Description

We help Procurement and Recruiting departments faced with the challenge of filling multiple IT-related openings for either long-term employment, or short-term projects. They need to find reliable candidates, with the right expertise, quickly and at the right cost to enable their company to remain competitive, and to increase profit and efficiency.

Stefanini provides the IT contract resources you need to implement crucial projects, handle short-term assignments, or fulfill long-term placements. Our IT staffing services free you from the challenges of finding, recruiting, training and retaining high-quality professional staff, and allow you to focus on managing your business growth.

We provide the ongoing skill development to ensure that professionals placed at your site are trained in leading technologies to support your information technology hardware, software, and network infrastructure. Augment your staff for short or long-term engagements, or for specialized expertise on specific projects.

We have more than 25 years of staffing industry knowledge and can provide you with superior

candidates to match your technical and professional needs.

Job Description

• Lead cross-functional teams for large-scale commercial/ revenue product initiatives to define product specifications, users stories, wire frames and acceptance criteria, establish milestones

• Create product roadmaps, feature backlogs and product documentation such as user stories, use cases, user flows, logic flows, and functional specifications.

• Work with core agile team including but not limited to technical architects, developers, designers and QA throughout the product lifecycle to ensure your product features meet goals and objectives

• Monitor key conversion metrics and A/B tests to support continual optimization of the product and business plan

• As part of product strategy and planning, able to conduct competitive analysis and financial modeling

• Collaborate with other user experience experts, visual designers and engineers to reach the best possible version of a feature or product to bring to market.

• Prioritize development activities with engineering teams, assist in determining the best technical implementation methods, work closely with QA on acceptance testing and lead product launches.

• Provide regular updates and make recommendations to product management team lead 

• Coordinate with cross-functional team in agile environment throughout testing cycles

• Provide support to the organization's Consumer Product Management team in the development and rollout of a series of new site initiatives

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years in a product management role or related experience

• Demonstrated success in online digital and/or mobile product management including defining requirements and involvement with product lifecycle

• Up-to-date understanding of market trends and keen interest in following emerging technologies

• Strong understanding of ad technologies and support platforms in the content of the digital publishing space

• Strong problem solving, analytic, and decision-making skills; able to interpret data and trends, diagnose problems, and formulate effective actions plans to resolve issues

• Exceptional communication skills, with ability to modulate communication between executive management and project teams

• Emphasis on user-driven product design and data-driven product refinement.

• Strong understanding of user experience, technical & business issues.

• Excellent communication skills – verbal and written

• Ability to make quick decisions and thrive in fast-paced environment

• Experience working in agile environment

• Experience with agile software

• Experience with Omniture and data metrics analysis

Additional Information

Preferred Skills:

• Search algorithm product experience

• Experience working with health, wellness, and/or lifestyle brands a plus