Job Purpose
The Product Owner at Nielsen is an essential catalyst for innovation within the audience measurement landscape. In this role you will oversee the entire product lifecycle executing the product vision, building out application specific requirements and leading cross-functional teams to deliver products that delight our customers. The Product Manager will partner with business teams, engineers, technologists, data scientists, and other cross-functional teams to deliver software solutions for Nielsen’s Television System. In addition to the software product requirements management, this individual will be responsible for the user story backlog and will be accountable for requirements decomposition and authoring of acceptance criteria for software.
Responsibilities Include:
- Design and oversee data pipelines for a specific application area.
- Build and maintain roadmaps with clear milestones for your application area.
- Analyse data outputs from specific applications and implement quality controls for accuracy.
- Monitor and track performance of your applications.
- Investigate with Engineering to identify root causes for data quality escapes
- Author user stories, acceptance criteria, and software requirements documentation.
- Maintain a prioritized backlog that aligns with available engineering capacity and maps to an overall solution roadmap.
- Identify and mitigate blockers, risks, issues, and dependencies that may impact project delivery and escalate to the appropriate stakeholders.
- Manage scope and drive trade-off decisions.
- Coordinate the creation of release management documentation, follow change management procedures, and review post-deployment KPIs
- Serve as a high-availability resource for answering questions posed by engineers, Data Scientists, and key stakeholders.
- Lead the planning and execution of projects from initiation to closure, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of Nielsen’s Television products and their short and long term product strategy.
- Set and track ROI goals for each product, ensuring they deliver value and align with broader business objectives
Minimum Qualifications/ Requirements:
- A bachelor's or master's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field is often preferred.
- 3-5 years experience in product management or a similar discipline.
Exposure with Data product/pipelines or data engineering tools.
- Extensive experience practicing, applying, and coaching others on Agile development principles.
- Strong technical aptitude and ability to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical teams.
- Demonstrated experience in managing the full product lifecycle from discovery through delivery and iteration
- Experience with managing the product life cycle of data-intensive products with understanding of technical and data flow/delivery process
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with the ability to present effectively to upper management. Communicate product status, risks, and tradeoffs to leadership and stakeholders
- Experience with Atlassian Jira and Confluence tools.
- Experience with backend processing systems.
- Experience in serving multiple products with a single system and scrum team.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Data Science, or related field
- 3-5 years experience in product management or similar discipline
- Exposure with data product/pipelines or data engineering tools
- Extensive experience applying and coaching Agile development principles
- Strong technical aptitude and ability to bridge technical and non-technical teams
- Experience managing the full product lifecycle from discovery through delivery and iteration
- Experience with managing the product life cycle of data-intensive products
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience with backend processing systems
- Experience in serving multiple products with a single system and scrum team
Nielsen Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Nielsen and has not been reviewed or approved by Nielsen.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is described as generous, including flexible or unlimited PTO in some roles, paid holidays, sick days, volunteer time, and flex days. Personal days accrue monthly and can be used at employees’ discretion.
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Parental & Family Support — Support includes paid parental leave, family medical leave, adoption assistance, and adoption subsidies. These programs are positioned as part of a comprehensive package for families.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Select roles benefit from commissions, car pay, longevity bonuses, and performance-based bonuses. In some cases, overall compensation is characterized as outstanding or very satisfying.
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