Position: Product Manager - Planning & Optimization Location: 360 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Founded in 2000, Analytic Partners (AP) has grown to be the independent global leader in analytics consulting and technology. We help top-tier companies adapt to the rapidly evolving world of data, analytics, and strategic and tactical data-driven decisioning. We are fast growing with global operations across our full-service offices in New York City, Denver, Charlottesville, Dublin, Paris, Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Shanghai. We are the premier provider of integrated analytic technology and services, leveraging adaptive modeling techniques to help companies generate better business results, drive growth, and, ultimately, grow closer to their customers.
Analytic Partners is a Certified Women-Owned Business, and a recognized leader in marketing measurement and optimization, and named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™ Marketing Measurement and Optimization Q1 2020, with top ranks in Strategy and Current Offering categories among all evaluated vendors.
OUR VALUES:
Our differentiator is - Our People! We hire the brightest talent and develop them into leaders. We foster a culture of PEOPLE, PASSION and GROWTH.

• People: We value our people, clients, and partners
• Passion: We love what we do
• Growth: Unlimited growth means unlimited potential

AP is a client-focused, team-oriented organization where innovation and results are rewarded, and individuals can chart the course of their own careers.
TEAM & POSITION OVERVIEW:

The position is an integral part of AP Product Group that builds science and technology applications that feed the analytical engines for AP! The team is comprised of motivated individuals that do exceptional work. They face challenges together and they win together. You will collaborate with a fun and agile team to architect, implement, test, and continuously deliver new features and products to our company and clients.
The Product Manager plays a lead role in the product team and will own this Product and the suite of solutions underneath this product. The PM will be responsible for gathering, validating, documenting, troubleshooting and prioritizing product needs, building the product roadmap, executing the feature deliveries by working closely with development teams, business teams & and our client engagement teams on AP's industry leading software application suite, consisting of Data Management, Modeling, Decisioning and Dashboard capabilities.
YOU WILL OWN & COLLABORATE ON:

• Analytic Partner's software tools and methods on business analytics, measurement, decisioning and optimization.
• Own the product roadmap and delivery commitments specific to our planning and optimization products.
• Own requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
• Collaborate with business teams and client engagement teams to understand the business problems and align on business needs.
• Discover and carry out in-depth evaluations of value propositions, all possible solutions & cost estimations in our decisioning and optimization product suites.
• Drive analysis of our core solutions through a reasonable knowledge of decision-making, optimization research processes and statistical modeling.
• Interact directly with end users and liaise with the Development team through the product development process to deliver efficient solutions.
• Provide product specific support to QAs, BAs, technical writers, testers & end users.
• Conduct testing to validate development features and coordinate users for UAT testing
• Conduct industry research and competitive intelligence analysis to provide insights on product innovation directions.

CAPABILITIES YOU WILL BRING:

• Solid knowledge and experience in business analysis and product management in marketing data, decision-making, optimization, and statistical modeling.
• Problem solving and storytelling skillset by using logical analysis, visual models, and user story mapping technique to clarify complex concepts.
• Relevant experience in agile software development, scrum methodologies & tools and processes using JIRA (e.g., epics and stories)
• Understanding the analytical process from Data to Decisioning. ETL, Data Pipeline, Modeling, Decisioning and Visualizations knowledge & experience is a plus
• Excellent multitasking and time management skill to manage stakeholders and to meet tight deadlines.
• Solid experience with documentations and issue tracking tools - Jira, Confluence, office 365, Microsoft Team
• Well-rounded communication skills to persuade, negotiate and influence without authority to all internal and external stakeholders.
• Hands-on technical skills in programming languages such as R, Python, SQL, BI tools, and cloud services such is a plus.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE YOU WILL NEED:

• Undergraduate or master's degree in any Science, Engineering, or related subjects
• Degree in Operational Research or Industrial Engineering, or other quantitative disciplines, e.g.: Statistics, Computer Science, Economics or equivalent is a plus
• 2+ years of work experience as a Business Analyst or Product Owner or Product Manager in relevant fields involving simulation and optimization
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum product development and support process using JIRA
• Solid knowledge of SQL, JQL and any other scripting language (R, Python, Excel, or VBA Macros)
• Proficient knowledge of Office 365 and any BI tools
• Hands on experience on any one wireframe tools (MS Visio, Lucid chart, Balsamiq, Adobe)
• Any product management certification or scrum certification and knowledge of GPS-E is a plus