Senior Project Manager

At Networked Insights, we enable brands to connect with and expand their opportunity audiences. Our solution, Kairos, analyzes and organizes real-time consumer data from the social web to uncover strategic, actionable insights. Kairos helps brands deeply understand their opportunity audiences, create content that connects with them, choose the right media investments, and track the connectedness of those audiences.

The Senior Product Manager at Networked Insights will be a leader, facilitator and advocate for a world class SaaS platform that leverages big data to create actionable insights for our marketing, media buying and analytics customers. The Senior Product Manager’s ability to internalize and articulate the needs of customers, married with business savvy and technical competency, are leveraged to build trust, discipline, and passion throughout the organization. The Senior Product Manager thrives as an individual contributor and also in collaborative settings by shaping product vision, guiding teams on opportunities, and leading dedicated development teams to discover and produce products that deliver customer and business value. It requires the ability passion to pursue the opportunities in front of you but also look ahead to the strategic leaps over the horizon.

• Lead, evangelize, translate, and facilitate for the continual evolution of the product’s vision, ensuring that it meets internal and external customer needs while also achieving the company’s strategic goals.
• Lead rich discovery processes with company stakeholders, discover market opportunities, and conduct user research to identify, evaluate and define products and features that are valuable, usable and feasible.
• Bring innovation to bear on the company’s product lines and the ability to serve its customers.
• Grow and refine product backlog by prioritizing against short- and long-term value delivery.
• Collaborate with Development, Design and other team members throughout product definition and project delivery.
• Make and own the hard decisions and trade-offs that emerge during product delivery when things don’t go exactly as planned.
• Influence the decisions of highly matrixed development teams through vision, persuasion and the authority of expert customer intimacy.
• Align product release planning in harmony with business strategy and the integrated product roadmap.
• Work with Marketing, Sales, and other stakeholders, as appropriate, to identify and assess opportunities and to test and bring products to market.
• Participate in and help lead the continued evolution of the product management organization and related processes to ensure successful iterative lifecycles.
• Must show ability to be a facilitator and leader to all stakeholders (engineering, business units and external clients) involved in the product-lifecycle to manage projects effectively.
• Must have confidence leveraging critical thinking skills and intuition to quickly make and measure decisions during planning and execution

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Minimum of 5 years of product management experience (2 years of product management experience at a technology, IT, or marketing/media/agency environment)
• Excellent project management skills
• Experience with agile methodology (Scrum); CSM or CSP ideal
• Experience with marketing, media buying, data analytics (including GA) and digital advertising models preferred; SaaS experience is ideal
• Must be able to manage priorities against needs of internal and external customers and internal partners