Director of Product Management, Analytics
Channel Factory, United States
Job Description
Channel Factory provides intelligent marketing solutions for the next generation of contextual safety, suitability, and performance for brands and agencies. Our platform helps marketers implement, automate, and scale their marketing programs across the world’s largest video library, YouTube and emerging growth channels. We sit at the intersection of marketing and suitability and have a mission of enabling the world’s top brands to consciously connect with the right audience in the right context, maximizing suitability and contextual performance.
Channel Factory embodies a strong start-up culture that values diversity, collaboration, and results. Our bias towards execution balances critical thinking, analysis, and pragmatic problem solving. We expect a lot from one another and value our thoughtful and intellectually curious company culture.
We are looking for a Director of Product Management, Analytics that will be responsible for supporting the technical direction, strategy, overall priorities, design, and development of our proprietary ViewIQ platform with a specific focus on analytics and media buying. The Director of Product Management, Analytics will own the product roadmap coordinating with engineering, data analytics/science team members and project leads to ensure timely delivery of products and features.
Responsibilities
- Hands-on role in defining, vetting, and developing new products, updating our existing products, and conducting research on things like user experience and market trends.
- Participate in the growth and development of the Product Management department through hiring, management and mentorship.
- Manage a team of product managers, set goals, assign tasks, and ensure the timely delivery of projects
- Mentor new hires and team members to develop their skills and drive their professional growth
- Develop and implement product strategies consistent with company vision and revenue goals
- Develop a deep understanding of customer needs and market trends, and use this knowledge to inform product development.
- Establish and track expected and actual ROI for Product Release candidates
- Collect and analyze feedback from Users (customers, stakeholders and other teams) to shape requirements, features and end products
- Work in collaboration with team leads and executive team members to create product plans and roadmaps.
- Lead project managers and coordinate cross-functional teams in the development of Product
- Ensure products and releases are launched correctly, on schedule
- Deliver ongoing recommendations to expand analytic capabilities, product base and vision
- Suggest ways to track product use and impact on end users
- Identifying weaknesses in prototypes pre-release, and driving the necessary changes.
Requirements
- BA/BS degree in a related field
- Minimum 9+ years of experience within the advertising or technology industry; or any combination of education and experience which would be equivalent
- Proven experience working with advertising analytics and media buying platforms, DSPs and/or ad servers.
- Minimum 3 years of direct management experience. Managing and mentoring product managers of all levels.
- Agile product management experience
- Ability to work remotely, managing various time zones within the US.
- Experience developing product specifications that translate customer requests into engineering requirements
- Understanding of architectures, databases, and APIs
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, including the creation of product-related documentation
- Ability to travel a minimum of 15% of the year for in-person meetings with internal team members, client meetings, conferences, etc.
Benefits
- Work with a leading startup in a high-demand industry, and you would be working with like-minded experts aiming to transform video targeting and buying operations
- Competitive salary
- Comprehensive medical benefits (Medical, Vision, Dental, and Life Insurance)
- Cell Phone amp; WiFi Reimbursement
- Gym stipend
- NatureBox credit for snacks
- Work-life flexibility we value your contributions above all
About Channel Factory
Founded in 2010, Channel Factory is an award-winning marketing technology company that helps top global brands and agencies maximize YouTube advertising. Recognized as a technology innovator by Cynopsis and one of the fastest-growing companies by Inc., Channel Factory has served over three hundred of the Fortune 500 in delivering scalable, brand-safe, contextually aligned YouTube advertising software and services. By tapping into the deepest proprietary data pool on the market, the company enables highly