Global Product Manager - Data & Infrastructure

The Product Manager will be expected to oversee the development process, working with stakeholders, designers, external suppliers, and technology providers to build the product roadmap. The successful candidate will work within the Global Platform Development team and collaborate with teams in the local markets to build out requirements, prioritise them and work with engineering teams to deliver the solution in a timely fashion.

They must be able to work effectively across all areas of product development and management, including design, creation, enhancement, and maintenance of new and existing features, functionality, and processes. The primary focus will be to help build a roadmap to deliver against our data strategy. The successful candidate will evolve the data infrastructure and advance initiatives to provide better insights for our clients.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee roadmap and delivery of a robust data infrastructure connecting all platforms within the Finecast applications
• Collaborate with Data science, Data engineering and regional stakeholders to build out innovative data solutions
• Work with tech teams and stakeholders to identify and prioritise requirements to help launch the data solutions across all Finecast markets globally
• Produce functional requirement documentation for new product initiatives
• Drive product development with team of external engineers, designers and stakeholders through ideation, development and launch of the product.
• Ensure product development lifecycle stages are completed on time and communicate updates to stakeholders and leadership teams
• Lead testing programmes for new products
• Manage product rollout and training schemes
• Work with Product Innovation to review comparable in-market reporting and attribution solutions and identify opportunities to enhance our data offering.
• Maintain platform product roadmap and associated prioritisation process across Finecast markets
• Work closely with Finecast local market stakeholders to ensure we have a transparent, open product roadmap process with strong participation and collaboration on feature development from our user community

Experience & skills:

The following skills and attributes will need to be demonstrated:

• Some experience of working with the following is desired:
  • Data governance, Data architecture & infrastructure
  • Analytics or Business Intelligence Products
  • Platform APIs; process automation
• Relevant experience in product development and management
  • Stakeholder management
  • Requirements gathering, development of user stories and acceptance criteria
  • Technology specifications and development
  • Solution delivery and adoption
• Comfortable working with complex data sets
• Sound experience of working with agile product management practices working closely with engineering teams in a continuous development approach
• Familiarity with principles of design and UX
• Understanding and experience of product prototyping process
• Evidence of technical comfort and understanding of application development, cloud computing, and database technologies
• Ideally, experience within the media industry - preferably in the areas of TV and digital advertising – but other industry experience is welcome
• Comfortable in speaking to any level of seniority, tailoring your message as appropriate
• Excellent Communication skills, effectively translating complex ideas into easy to understand, workable solutions