Product Manager

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About The Role:

We are in search of an associate to fill the role of a Product Manager for Rich Media Products. An ideal candidate will have at least 5+ years of product management experience and a proven track record of end-to-end ownership and delivering results.

Responsibilities:

• Own the strategy and execution of Gracenote’s rich media datasets making trade-off decisions as needed. Work closely with clients/prospects to understand their business problems and meld that into a clear product vision that delivers a world-class solution to the market.

• Managing feature delivery timelines and communication with leaders and stakeholders on status, risks, and changes

• Build and maintain market and competitive intelligence and identify new opportunities for product innovation to enable richer user experiences on streaming platforms

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide the best-in-class tools to build cost-effective and quality products for our global clients.

• Provide pricing guidance to Sales and manage the overall business growth for the product line

• Anticipating and evaluating risks and making trade-offs to deliver products that scale, quickly

• Work cross-functionally with Engineers, CX Designers, and other Product Managers across various teams to deliver on the product roadmap

• Create mechanisms to continuously monitor the success of our technology against the outcomes that matter most to our customers

• Building strong partnerships with both technical and non-technical internal teams and integration teams externally to ensure product adoption and deliver value to large enterprise customers

• Work closely with UX and engineering to deliver simple intuitive user experiences for our B2B users of the solution and demonstrate these through intuitive demos

• Be the rich media products SME for Pay TV operators and smart device manufacturer clients 

• Develop and own key performance metrics for your initiatives and guide deep dives as needed to diagnose anomalies, quality reporting, etc.

• Provide written guidance and documentation for sales and other cross-functional teams to support the product line

• Define and develop product positioning and messaging alongside product marketing teams

Requirements/Qualifications:

• The position requires native-level English fluency (C2), as the position supports US-based and EU customers.

• 5+ years of Product Management experience.

• Strong passion for TV/Movie content and rich media creation workflows to drive the best experience for the end user.

• Experience working with streaming platforms ideally with image workflows or experience working on the UX/UI of a streaming platform

• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills

Additional Skills / Preferred Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher. Computer Science/Engineering/Design major is preferable

• Experience working with Image Operations workflows/development

• Experience with ML technologies and familiarity with modern Image & manipulation techniques is a plus

• Experience with REST APIs, Recommendation Engine Algorithms etc. is a plus

• Experience in OTT, TV broadcast, or supporting customers who develop products for digital content consumption.

• Development experience with Gracenote, TMS, ROVI, or other structured entertainment databases a plus.

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ABOUT THE TEAM

Gracenote, a Nielsen company, provides music, video, and sports content along with technologies to the world's hottest entertainment products and brands, which is also a global standard for music and video recognition which is supported by the largest source of entertainment data. Gracenote features descriptions of more than 200 million tracks, TV listings for 85+ countries, and statistics from 4,500 sports leagues and competitions.

ABOUT NIELSEN

By connecting clients to audiences, we fuel the media industry with the most accurate understanding of what people listen to and watch. To discover what audiences love, we measure across all channels and platforms⁠—from podcasts to streaming TV to social media. And when companies and advertisers are truly connected to their audiences, they can see the most important opportunities and accelerate growth. 

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