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General Manager, Covers.com
Entertainment & Media Industry Company
Chicago, IL, United States
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At Tribune Media, we are creators. We produce and distribute outstanding content, trusted journalism, and digital data that informs, entertains, engages, and inspires millions of people every day. With lean-forward television audiences, high-quality local brands, a significant digital footprint, and the most sought after data capabilities in media today, we are building the company of the future – one storyteller, influencer and data scientist at a time.
Responsibilities
Tribune Media is seeking a General Manager to drive the product strategy, business growth and overall operations of Company website, North America’s first, largest and most-respected online destination for sports wagering content and information. The right candidate is a dynamic product-focused individual who will drive growth from our offices in Halifax and New York City. Ideally this individual has proven success in online and ecommerce product development as well as experience modernizing a successful business from the ground up.
Qualifications:
Product Development Requirements
• Experience working in and passion for the sports wagering industry; able to recognize emerging industry trends to innovate current product and build long term product roadmaps providing vision for the web property
• Experience building products that drive audience engagement and exponential growth; balancing products to acquire new users along with increasing engagement among existing audiences
• Must be a decision maker to re-envision and prioritize product development to increase long term value, minimize engineering cycles focused on daily maintenance and retire products that are not contributing
• Proven success in all stages of human-centered product design lifecycle, from strategy and requirements through to iterative testing and launch; act as the hub between design, tech and marketing and use those teams effectively to take a product from an idea through launch
• Dialed into success models in the digital world to move the brand forward using best-in-breed technologies, social engagement and overall user experience with a focus on optimizing content delivery and presentation across all devices for both audience and revenue growth
• Passion for powerful, effective data products, with an eye for elegant and usable design
Business Development Requirements
• Proven ability to identify, evaluate and negotiate complex business development matters in new and emerging digital businesses while also fully understanding, supporting and expanding our existing Covers business
• Confidence creating financial models to estimate the potential value of opportunities and the cost of resources required to execute and implement partnerships
• Enhanced experience in developing and presenting successful new business pitches
• Experience managing a business pipeline and closing partnership deals, working with supporting teams to optimize revenue across product features, marketing campaigns and sales initiatives
General Requirements
• 10+ years of experience in managing digital growth products including previous tenure in similar visionary executive role
• In-depth working knowledge of the latest trends in sports wagering and odds mechanics
• Ability to actively demonstrate through your background, vision, drive and empathy that you are an inspirational leader
• Experience working with sports audiences, as well as a passion for and knowledge of digital data
• Ability to operate effectively in a highly cross-functional organization
• Established relationship builder with key industry connections to help your business thrive
• Proven ability to set aggressive but attainable growth metrics that align with short and long term roadmap milestones and business goals.
• Trend-setting with a fresh perspective and voice
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills
• Ability to solve problems and think strategically
• Proven track record with hiring, developing and leading teams
• Demonstrated reverence of analytics to prove product output
• Team player with the ability delegate tasks effectively while maintaining a watchful eye on quality
• Excellent presentation, people management and project management skills