Director of Product - Publishing Tools
NBCUniversal
- New York City, NY
- Permanent
- Full-time
- You are an experienced product leader with a proven track-record of end-to-end ownership and delivery of technical products - in particular, success leading digital strategies for publishing/content management tools at a global scale.
- You have experience leading teams of Product Managers, whereby goal setting and coaching is one of your strongest abilities - acting as a force-multiplier, building product teams and growing talent.
- You can navigate multi-layered, matrixed organizations through your deft communication, attention to detail, systems thinking and relationship building. You are creative in driving teams to deliver, influencing leadership and you believe building rapport and earning trust is an important investment in success.
- You enjoy thinking big and crafting visions but have the technical chops to talk architecture and help your team creatively solve deliverability challenges.
- You have relentlessly high standards, deep operational knowledge, and expertise in every aspect of digital product development and e-commerce.
- You have an established set of product development best practices, and your own experience-based methods to define product vision and requirements. You are comfortable coaching your team in these methods and deploying them to solve challenges within the team.
- You have used OKRs and/or KPIs to define north stars for your team and set team goals. You are comfortable providing guidance to your team. You are on a constant hunt for the next insight to drive roadmap prioritization.
- You are a strong communicator, able to articulate your point-of-view, engage in fact- based discourse, collaborate, compromise, and bridge gaps.
- You are resilient - focused, driven, and the natural owner of both big ideas and practical daily output - and feel most at home in a fast-paced, iterative, and collaborative environment.
- Robust prioritization skills that enable you to
- to work on multiple tracks and pivot from one project to another.
- You have the technical acumen to recommend and execute high calibre products but the humility and partnership orientation to collaborate closely with engineering leaders to define solutions.
- Proven experience developing content management tools (home grown or acquired)
- Minimum 7 years driving a product roadmap of publishing capabilities, with a focus on strategizing, testing, developing, delivering, and scaling, preferably in a commerce driven organization.
- Minimum 7 years working side-by-side with engineers, writing requirements/use cases and directing their priorities.
- Minimum 2 years leading product management teams required; 4 years preferred.
- Exemplary understanding of systems design, technical architecture and scalable product development.
- Readiness to share a presentation of publishing tool case study
- MS in business, technical field or equivalent work experience preferred
- Experience working in an agile software development environment