NBCUniversal is spinning off a new company, Versant, and needs a leader to define strategy, build roadmaps, and execute for Versant's product ecosystem supporting Ad Sales and Marketing divisions, including ad serving, audience, planning, traffic, and distribution across linear and digital endpoints.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in technical product management, with full ownership and/or management of the product lifecycle
- 7+ years of experience with Linear or Digital Ad Sales products or technology
- Experience supporting technology implementations (business analysis, change management, configurations)
Responsibilities
- Lead strategy definition, roadmap creation, technical buildout, and execution for Versant’s product ecosystem supporting Versant’s Ad Sales and Marketing divisions, inclusive of Sales Enablement, Audience, Planning, Traffic, and Distribution across both Linear and Digital endpoints.
- Oversee Versant’s centralized ad serving, integration, and certification team enabling digital advertising across all owned, and non-owned, digital products.
- Drive thought leadership and strategic direction on all existing products, with alignment to a destination architecture and rationalization of legacy capabilities.
- Develop multi-year product roadmaps with accountability to short term, mid-term, and long-term execution and deliverables.
- Build highly reliable, available, scalable, and performant products, and continuously measure and monitor KPIs to drive improvement to the development process and run state of all products.
- Translate business requirements into technical product strategies, technical specifications, and designs.
- Leverage Agile methodologies to ensure an iterative and incremental approach to building out destination platforms, and partner with engineering and technology leaders to drive overall software development lifecycle.
Other
- Effectively identify, recruit, hire, develop, and retain talented product leaders, ultimately maintaining a performance culture grounded in inclusiveness, collaboration, expertise, accountability, and results
- Manage the OCF and Capital budgets associated with the product portfolio, inclusive of labor costs, software licensing, hosting, maintenance/support, etc.
- Develop financial models to track product development costs and associated returns on investment based on productivity and/or business upside enablement
- Build credibility, respect, and influence across Versant by demonstrating thought leadership, product savvy, execution focus, and strong communication skills
- Ability to identify, analyze and creatively solve problems as well as the ability to learn rapidly, adapt quickly to change, exercise influence, and manage and prioritize multiple concurrent projects
