Senior Product Manager, Orange Apron Media; Creative Management

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.

• 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

• Typically reports to the Product Management Manager or Sr. Manager.

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

• 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.

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

• Must be eighteen years…