Company Description
At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it's consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution. When you join Nielsen, you will join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future.
Job Description
Are you a visionary product leader with a passion for building transformative products from the ground up Nielsen is seeking a highly experienced and strategic Senior Product Manager II to join our growing product team. In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in defining, developing, and launching innovative products that address complex user needs and drive significant business impact. You will lead cross-functional teams, from ideation through execution, ensuring our products meet market demands and exceed customer expectations, with a strong emphasis on robust product fundamentals, strategic foresight, and data-driven decision making.
What You'll Do
- Product Strategy & Vision: Develop and articulate a comprehensive product vision and strategy for your assigned product area, aligning it with the company's overall strategic goals. Identify significant market opportunities, evolving customer needs, and complex competitive landscapes to inform product direction.
- Portfolio Ownership: Drive strategy and execution across multiple related product areas, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives and maximizing cross-product synergies.
- Roadmap Ownership: Own and manage the product roadmap, strategically prioritizing features and initiatives based on long-term strategic value, significant customer impact, and technical feasibility. Clearly communicate the roadmap to executive stakeholders across the organization.
- Requirements Definition: Translate complex user needs, intricate business requirements, and advanced technical capabilities into detailed product specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate closely with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer success teams throughout the product lifecycle. Facilitate effective communication and critical decision-making to ensure successful product delivery.
- Market & Customer Research: Conduct thorough market research, competitive analysis, and in-depth customer interviews to gain profound insights into user behavior, critical pain points, and emerging trends.
- Data-Driven Performance & Iteration: Define key performance indicators (KPIs) for your products, rigorously monitor performance, and leverage advanced data-driven insights to identify areas for substantial improvement and guide future iterations. Comfort with analyzing and interpreting highly complex datasets is essential.
- Stakeholder Management: Build strong, influential relationships with internal and external stakeholders, effectively managing expectations and communicating critical product updates and progress to senior leadership.
- Mentorship: Actively mentor junior and senior product managers, sharing advanced best practices and significantly contributing to the growth and development of the entire product team.
Qualifications
- Experience: Overall 6+ years of experience in product management or similar roles within product companies, with a proven track record of successfully launching and scaling complex, impactful products.
- Strategic Thinking: Exceptional ability to think strategically and translate broad, ambitious visions into actionable plans and detailed product requirements.
- Technical Acumen: Deep understanding of software development processes and technologies. Ability to engage in sophisticated technical discussions with engineering teams and guide architectural decisions.
- Analytical Skills: Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to use complex data to drive critical product decisions.
- Executive Stakeholder Engagement: Demonstrated executive presence with the ability to effectively influence and engage senior leadership to drive product strategy and organizational alignment.
- Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate highly complex ideas clearly and persuasively to diverse, including executive, audiences.
- Collaboration: Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.
- Customer Focus: A profound empathy for users and a passion for creating products that solve significant, real-world problems.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field. MBA a strong plus.
Additional Information
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