Product Manager

Our B2B team seeks an enthusiastic Product Manager. You will work with the biggest names in sports, media, entertainment, and active lifestyle.

Responsibilities

• Gather requirements from stakeholders and structure into documentation
• Manage functional business requirements documentation throughout project lifecycle
• Analyze and map data from disparate sources and formats to guide design and development
• Lead project kickoffs, discovery workshops, internal and external requirements reviews, and product show and tells; and elicit feedback
• Work with the development and project management teams to ensure requirements are achievable and inline with best practices and project scope.
• Work closely with the QA team to ensure there is a clear understanding of all project requirements and objectives.
• Validate requirements against deliverables
• Be a strong practitioner of Agile methodologies; be nimble, flexible and always expecting change
• Work with client and project management in the prioritization of product features with client according to scope, dependencies, urgency, cost, and return
• Take part in product ideation and provide feedback and recommendations to the client for new opportunities, features, or products
• Serve as product functional and business requirements expert for any internal or external questions around the product
• Take ownership of quality of deliverables and validate requirements with client in UAT
• Defining and measuring KPIs for product success.

Requirements

• 3+ years product management experience preferably from a professional services and/or digital agency
• Strong understanding of responsive web, iOS, and Android design, UX and development best practices
• Intermediate understanding of the SDLC and familiarity with software development technologies and concepts
• Basic understanding of data storage, transformation, and delivery.
• Familiarity with digital media landscape specifically as it pertains to sports and technology
• Ability to document and organize business-level requirements in a thorough and clear manner
• Ability to internally communicate business-level requirements in a thorough and clear manner and advocate for client perspective
• Ability to manage multiple simultaneous deadlines and tasks; understand how to prioritize your own time based on project timelines; help push projects forward with continual progress
• Understanding of UX and user-centric design principles
• Ability to quickly become expert in client/project domain (business, sports, users, competitors, industry trends) and serve as a Subject Matter Expert
• Ability to understand and account for of platform limitations, restrictions, sport or tech-specific edge cases in defining requirements and client conversations
• Ability to work directly with clients, representing as experts in our field
• Ability to work independently and lead requirements gathering, review, and approval process on small to mid-sized projects
• Ability to manage client expectations and requests against project scope
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously
• Ability to clearly communicate perspective and advocate for product decisions to internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to understand technical and business-level product decisions
• Ability to concisely summarize complex issues and make clear, compelling recommendations
• Ability to work with application architects to find ways to meet project objectives while reducing delivery complexity