Senior Product Manager, Emerging Platforms

Job description

Responsibilities

We are looking for an entrepreneurial, highly motivated Senior Product Manager of Emerging Platforms to be part of a fun and dynamic team working on CNBC's portfolio of emerging digital products. As Podcasts, voice-first hardware (Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod), and digital assistant platforms (Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple Siri) emerge and play a bigger role in our lives, CNBC aims to establish itself as a leader in the business and finance categories.

Our ideal candidate has worked as a product manager in digital media and has overseen voice and audio products, including Alexa Skills, Actions on Google and/or Podcasts. You will build from existing ideas, and help to develop new ideas based on your experience and market research. You must possess a blend of business and technical savvy, a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality. This role has a strategic element but will require strong tactical implementation skills and perseverance.

Responsibilities

·  Formulate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for CNBC's digital experiences on emerging platforms, including voice and audio platforms
·  Define business-level and implementation requirements and user stories for products to inform engineering delivery
·  Create a prioritized backlog of user stories based on the roadmap
·  Identify KPIs, track, and analyze performance of products to inform data-driven product enhancements
·  Facilitate user research and evangelize lean UX / design thinking methodologies to inform product decisions
·  Prepare and present strategic plans, recommendations, and product demonstrations to executives and stakeholders
·  Inspire and lead delivery of an agile team consisting of engineers, QA engineers, designers, and project managers
·  Collaborate with engineering, business development, marketing, editorial, finance, legal, and other internal stakeholder groups around initiatives
·  Manage and build partnerships with major tech platform providers, including Amazon, Apple, and Google, as it relates to product initiatives
·  Source and manage vendor relationships as required for product delivery and support

Job Number

39916BR
Posting Category

Digital Media
Country

United States
Sub-Business

CNBC Digital Technology and Product
About Us

At NBCUniversal, we believe in the talent of our people. It's our passion and commitment to excellence that drives NBCU's vast portfolio of brands to succeed. From broadcast and cable networks, news and sports platforms, to film, world-renowned theme parks and a diverse suite of digital properties, we take pride in all that we do and all that we represent. It's what makes us uniquely NBCU. Here you can create the extraordinary. Join us.

About CNBC:

With CNBC in the U.S., CNBC in Asia Pacific, CNBC in Europe, Middle East and Africa, CNBC World and CNBC HD, CNBC is the recognized world leader in business news and provides real-time financial market coverage and business information to approximately 371 million homes worldwide, including more than 100 million households in the United States and Canada. CNBC also provides daily business updates to 400 million households across China. The network's 15 live hours a day of business programming in North America (weekdays from 4:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. ET) is produced at CNBC's global headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and includes reports from CNBC News bureaus worldwide. CNBC at night features a mix of new reality programming, CNBC's highly successful series produced exclusively for CNBC and a number of distinctive in-house documentaries.

CNBC also has a vast portfolio of digital products which deliver real-time financial market news and information across a variety of platforms. These include CNBC.com, the online destination for global business; CNBC PRO, the premium, integrated desktop/mobile service that provides real-time global market data and live access to CNBC global programming; and a suite of CNBC Mobile products including the CNBC Real-Time iPhone and iPad Apps.
State/Province

New Jersey
Career Level

Experienced
Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelors or Masters degree with 3-5 years experience in Digital Media
• Ideally have hands on experience with building Amazon Alexa Skills and/or Actions on Google
• Passionate about developing consumer facing solutions using new technology and emerging platforms
• Enthusiastic about user research and design thinking approaches to product development
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Ability to self-start and work in a fast-paced environment
Desired Characteristics

• A highly motivated self-starter
• Detailed and organized
• Willing to work in Englewood Cliffs, NJ (free shuttles available from various locations)
• 1+ years of experience in consumer-facing conversational interface / chatbot / virtual assistant product management
• 1+ years of experience focused on audio-related initiatives, such as podcasts or radio
• Great interest in or business-level technical literacy with respect to APIs, NLP, AI, and personalization technology

Benefits Include:
Free shuttle service with WIFI
Gym onsite
Dry cleaner
and many more!!!
City

Englewood Cliffs
Notices

NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. NBCUniversal will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative For Hiring Ordinance, where applicable.