Product Manager- WorldCat

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The Product Manager, World Cat, owns the development and delivery for OCLC’s data ingest and enrichment services and the integration of World Cat data across products. This role advances modernization of the data infrastructure, and services that make World Cat an entity-first semantic data layer — extending data ingest pipeline capabilities, data enrichment mechanisms, and data interoperability across established and emerging data infrastructures.

Partnering closely with external stakeholders and internal cross-functional teams, the Product Manager drives product direction to translate market needs into innovative solutions.

• Oversees market analysis and develops product strategy and business cases for World Cat.
• Assess new technology and adds value to existing products by improving features to create best in class solutions, build and scale platform capabilities, and reduce costs.
• Produces and maintains the product roadmap.
• Collaborates on release plans with Development.
• Collaborates with Finance on budgets and forecasts.

• Provides leadership to cross-functional product work groups. Leads Product management meetings. Resolves conflicts and drives consensus.
• Facilitates collaboration and communication and secures commitment between Development and Product Management and other divisional work groups towards achievement of common goals.
• Develops and monitors progress on product roadmap.

• Assists in developing strategies for customer acquisition and retention; manages relationships with user groups.
• Collaborates with the marketing and sales team in the generation of compelling marketing and awareness plans/presentations.
• Understands how and when to commission market research to develop and maintain expertise in markets served, alternative services, new technology, and related standards.
• Can generate appropriate information for market sizes by sector / territory and can generate market penetration statistics.
• Analyzes reasons for OCLC product wins and losses against…