Sr./Director of Product Management, Viewership Data

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute the product strategy, go-to-market plans, positioning, pricing, messaging, metrics, P&L, TAM/SAM/SOM, and all elements related to the business case.
• Generate the most valuable set of viewership data that drives customer adoption, and revenue.
• Own the product roadmap for our Viewership Data product suite. 
• Hire, onboard, coach, develop, and lead a team of all-star Product Managers.
• Define requirements, and work with engineering, data science, and design to implement and iterate.
• Manage the entire product lifecycle from conception to launch including: ideation, scope, specification, prioritization, design, implementation, quality assurance, launch, and iteration.
• Define and analyze metrics and KPIs that inform and ensure the success of your product(s).
• Understand and analyze customer needs.  Integrate customer feedback, usage data, research and market analysis into product requirements to drive KPIs and product value. 
• Negotiate deals with partners and vendors.
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Finance to provide the market context and key drivers that feed the revenue forecast and longer-term outlook.
• Serve as the key spokesperson for your product, delivering clear, compelling communications up and across Samba TV and outside the company.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• 8+ years of product management experience, ideally with big data, data science, media and advertising, and AI/ML.
• BA/BS or MS in Computer Science, Math, or related technical field or equivalent practical experience.  
• 2+ years experience managing a team of product management ICs.  
• Resume with proven results, not just description of duties – we want to see metrics that display impact.   
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills.  
• Distinctive problem solving, organizational, and analytical skills with the ability to evolve product strategy and tactics based on research, data and industry trends; attention to details.  
• Demonstrated technical acumen; ability to influence and debate solutions with technical team members, to understand technology solutions and potential tradeoffs and to represent technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders 
• Experience designing simple and intuitive user interfaces – ability to create examples through wire frames and mock ups.  
• Ability to build systems and processes to automate and scale manual operations.
• Excel ninja with strong modeling skills.
• Knowledgeable across multiple functional areas such as product management, engineering, UI, finance.
• You <3 TV!

Bonus:

• You code.  
• Strong understanding of the TV, Media, Entertainment & Advertising Spaces
• Understanding of the technical architecture of complex and highly scalable systems
• Experience with Data Science and/or statistics
• Experience writing SQL queries for data analysis

About you:

• You thrive under pressure
• You are the hardest working person you know
• You are a coach and mentor with high standards who holds people accountable and has a track record of getting the best out of their people
• You are passionate about building great products that customers love, but you are willing to admit that you don’t have all the answers
• You are a self-starter and quick learner with entrepreneurial drive and appreciation of user-experience, business, and commercial issues
• You are just as comfortable analyzing massive amounts of data as you are writing requirements and designing user flows
• You’ve shipped products that customers love
• You are always up to date on the latest trends, successes, and failures
• You innately understand users even when they are nothing like you
• You back up your arguments up with data
• You believe strongly in your ideas, but are always willing to listen to others and make unbiased decisions because you ultimately want what’s best for the product.  
• You have the ability to be both tactical and strategic moving seamlessly from developing high-level product strategy to optimizing conversion and everywhere in-between.  
• You are a student of psychology able to break down problems to understand a user’s basic wants, needs, and desires  
• You’re incredibly detail oriented, but are always focused on the big picture 
• You are willing to get your hands dirty doing whatever is needed to make your product successful. 
• You’ve never uttered the words “that’s not part of my job description”
• You have a bias toward action and can break down complex problems into steps that drive product development