ABOUT THIS ROLE
As Senior Product Manager, you will lead a team of Platform Product Managers. You will move fast to refine clear scope and product requirements, question assumptions, identify issues where appropriate, and proactively identify and raise product risks. You will work to define and build critical experiences that will help us match customers with content they love.
You will be a key player at the intersection of Editorial, Business and Technology, supporting the growth of SPH through the successful creation and operation of our internal consumer facing features.
ABOUT YOU
You have a technical background with a thirst for continuous learning, commitment to action, an attitude that anything is possible, ability to execute cross functional projects and a relentless focus on the given KPIs. You’re an accountable, hands on problem-solver with a positive attitude, letting nothing stand in the way. You leverage data to data to make decisions and actively engage cross-functionally with engineering teams stakeholders to solve right for the customer. If you “love rolling your sleeves up and getting stuff done” and have a strong interest in content packaging and discovery, particularly in the media industry, this role is for you.
As a Senior Technical Product Manager, you will...
- Define and execute the roadmap with clearly articulated and well measured goals
- Identify, define and execute on projects that elevate the usability, novelty, and comprehensiveness of discovery pathways
- Drive understanding of how and where discovery initiatives can bolster content discovery and engagement
- Lead cross-functional collaboration with engineering, data science, UX, marketing, and other partner teams to create discovery experiences that are meaningful and delightful to consumers
- Collaborate across teams to optimise content classification, browsing, and conversion experiments and measure firmly understood hypotheses and business objectives
- Plan and prioritise the backlog for development teams to ensure maximum value in deliverables
- Interpret insights and business needs and transform into detailed product requirements documents and user stories for engineering teams to execute
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 12+ years of total experience preferably in technical product management in complex organisations. At least 5 years managing platform products.
- Ability to recognize the benefits and limitations of the technical design of a feature, and engage with engineering to make informed trade-off decisions
- Strong communication skills - Can provide information to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike and guide them to confidently informed decisions
- Exceptionally strong execution skills to create high standard product specifications, product success metrics and drive product delivery through multiple teams
- Strong analytical skills, experience in data driven hypothesis testing and experimentation
- Experience of deeply understanding internal systems and platforms, customer needs, pain points
- Strong team player with demonstrated ability to engage internal and external stakeholders and rally teams towards a common goal
- Experience driving long term technology and business outcome ownership for key initiatives
