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Product Manager, Digital Product and Technology
Atlantic Media
Washington, DC, United States
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The Atlantic is a digital-first media company with over 150 years of history and 30 million online visitors a month. We’re looking for an experienced and innovative Product Manager to join our growing team and help shape the future of media.
This is a highly cross-functional role that is responsible for gathering requirements, creating functional specifications, scoping technical projects, managing project milestones, communicating project status, and supporting edit and business initiatives. The candidate will have extensive experience developing web-based products, a strong user interface focus, knowledge of SEO best practices, excellent project management skills, and some experience with the software development process.
The candidate will have a passion for The Atlantic and experience developing products or software. They will be an advocate for our users/readers while also taking into account cross-functional stakeholders and senior management. The candidate will be focused on results, innovation and continual improvement.
Major Responsibilities Include:
• Managing the entire product lifecycle from concept through launch; identifying opportunities along the way for ongoing process and product improvements
• Collaborating with editorial, marketing, sales, business development, and advertising operations to translate organizational objectives into tactical projects and requirements
• Conducting needs assessments, competitive research, user research and market analysis
• Documenting business and functional requirements
• Working closely with UX and design leads
• Scoping products and breaking project plan into key milestones
• Communicating strategy, project status, conflicts, and resource needs to management
• Running product user testing and/or multivariate testing
• Determining and evaluating success metrics to measure the effectiveness of product launches
• Composing QA plans and overseeing product testing
Qualifications of Ideal Candidate:
• 2+ years experience in editorial or technical product development
• Creative problem solver with solid analytical and research skills
• Technical experience: the product manager must understand the technical implications of the product decisions they make (prior working experience in a Software Development Team preferred)
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects at once
• Solid understanding of web standards, web browser capabilities, SEO, user experience, and common web technologies
• Familiarity with ad serving platforms, ideally DFP
• Demonstrated ability leading cross-functional teams
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to converse with business, editorial and technology teams
• Candidates with experience working for media strongly preferred
• Bachelors degree required
Across Atlantic Media, generally, the firm looks for two “pillar gifts” in its candidates. In all of us, these are more aspirational than actual, but they are central in our intentions.
1. Force of Intellect - Atlantic Media seeks a discipline and rigor of thought as manifested, often, in exceptional academic performance and, later, success in a professional environment.
2. Spirit of Generosity - Equally, Atlantic Media seeks what we term a spirit of generosity – a natural disposition towards service and selfless conduct.
Atlantic Media is an equal opportunity employer of minorities, women, veterans and those with disabilities.