Associate Product Manager

iHeartMedia is the number one audio company in America, leading the audio revolution. They are seeking an Associate Product Manager to assist in creating new products and features, conducting research on user challenges, and collaborating with engineering teams to enhance existing products.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with a Product Manager to own and define the product roadmap for their product lines
• Assist with defining user personas including identification of user problems and serve as user evangelist
• Research our customers and the market generally, to understand, validate and become an expert in their challenges
• Analyze usage of our existing products to understand how customers are interacting with our solutions and if they are achieving their goal
• Assist with articulating product goals and measures of success to business
• Perform analysis of competitors and identify competitive threats
• Work with engineering teams to clearly scope and roughly size product solutions before we start development so we understand the time and effort required to build those solutions
• Helping validate product hypotheses with surveys, usage analytics, A/B testing, etc
• Direct research efforts of Business Analysts working on the product team
• Run brainstorming & interview sessions with end users
• Write clear, coherent user stories with detailed acceptance criteria
• Generate simplified wireframes and design mocks to define user flow
• Assist product manager in running groomings, standups, post mortems and negotiating feature build out with engineering teams
• Conduct timely product reviews and sign-offs of new features and work with engineering to thoroughly user-test and ensure resulting build matches what was committed to in each sprint
• Assist product manager with go-to-market strategy for new features and products, including consumer-ready communications for marketing & sales teams
• Attend daily stand ups and biweekly sprint planning with engineering teams to obliterate blockers, manage dependencies / prerequisites while product is being developed

Requirements:

• 1-2 years experience in product management, product development, product design or similar field
• Very strong verbal and communication skills
• Familiarity or experience with Agile and scrum software development processes
• Strong organizational skills and ability to handle multiple tasks
• Strong analytical problem solving and solution finding skills
• Very strong writing and presentation skills (including but not limited to describing simple user stories, jobs-to-be-done requirements for engineering teams, value proposition statements, etc)
• Experience working in SaaS organizations and comfortable working within large, cross-functional teams that include engineering, customer success, marketing, and sales
• Relevant industry experience, either with marketing & advertising technology or developing on Facebook & other social APIs
• Positive, upbeat and customer-service oriented
• Ability to manage changing priorities within a highly dynamic environment
• Ability to perform duties with limited oversight
• Willing and able to learn new skills as required
• Respect for others and a strong belief that others should do this in return
• Accountability for own work and desire to provide guidance to new team members
• Ability to contribute to several projects at the same time under a moderate level of direction
• Application of objective judgement, technical skills and prior experience to solve business problems
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including a knack for explaining complex information in a straightforward manner
• Desire for continued knowledge sharing and learning
• Understanding of impact of own decisions