Product Manager

Overview

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, we’re making it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. As a global company, we have offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world. FreeWheel is hiring a Product Manager to join the team working on cross-platform video advertising technology, with a focus on defining the optimization and machine learning applications within FreeWheel’s Streaming Hub platform. This role will expand our suite of Machine Learning-powered ad decision capabilities, including supply optimization and advertiser demand optimization, among others, within the Streaming Hub. A successful candidate will engage with clients, engineering, marketing, sales, services, and product management, while shaping the vision and definition around the next generation of product capabilities.
Responsibilities

Own end-to-end ideation, design, and delivery of features and technologies that enable FreeWheel clients to execute against cross-platform video advertising.
Help set product strategy and direction for hybrid and linear ad decisioning products at FreeWheel.
Identify new product opportunities from industry trends and challenges and perform market analysis to inform product decisions and roadmap.
Holistically understand core business problems and requirements from clients, prospects, sales and support, to invent efficient and useful solutions.
Using agile methodologies, oversee the engineering team’s product development efforts, ensuring the final product is functional, operational, and meets design and feature specifications.
Partner with product management, user experience, sales, marketing, advisory services, and client solutions to position products and features for successful client use.
Build business cases for new products and features, prioritize needs based on team objectives, and clearly highlight business use cases and vet assumptions prior to further investment.
Define and consistently measure quantifiable success metrics of owned products with each feature.
Maintain awareness of the advertising/media operations and television/content-providers landscape, including vendors, partners, and new technologies.
Travel up to 20% of time (domestic and international).
About You

3-5 years of Product Management or equivalent experience with a successful history of delivering customer-oriented, complex solutions in a fast-moving environment, ideally in the digital advertising space.
Computer science, math, or engineering undergraduate degree or equivalent; MBA or equivalent graduate degree strongly preferred.
Experience across the product management lifecycle for enterprise products or services.
Proven ability to quickly learn, understand, and expand complex products, processes, and concepts.
Superior communication skills for addressing colleagues and customers; ability to present complicated concepts clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience understanding and evaluating client requests, translating requests into detailed designs, and guiding engineering through implementation.
Ability to quickly adapt to changes in the industry, development processes, and business priorities.
Good organizational skills and strong attention to detail.
Passionate about what you do and excited about the opportunity ahead at FreeWheel.
Skills

Advertising
Agile Methodology
Product Backlog Management
Product Development
Product Management
Requirements Specification
Compensation and Benefits

Pay Range: $125,204.74 - $187,807.12. Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience.
The application window is 30 days from the date the job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later. Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Comcast provides a comprehensive Benefits program and resources to support employees physically, financially and emotionally. For more details, please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site.
Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree; education preferred or equivalent combination of coursework and experience. MBA or equivalent graduate degree strongly preferred.
7-10 years of relevant work experience.
Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. You can also explore additional opportunities at our company, NBCUniversal.

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