Senior Product Development Manager

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Nielsen Sports is the global leader in sponsorship media Valuation and data analytics. Using data and insights, we strive to maximize opportunities and provide greater ROI to both rights holders and brands through our comprehensive sponsorship media valuation approach.

We are looking for a Senior Product Development Manager to join our team, who will bring Nielsen Sports capabilities to a new level, by supporting the end-to-end data process from data collection and processing to creative data presentation and delivery to our clients, as well as by collaborating with various stakeholders, analysts and internal users.  

Your experience in solving customer problems and analytics helps you to drive product iterations that are rooted in quantifiable insights and your deep understanding of users helps you to identify pain points, processes, and practices that present opportunities for improved customer experience, data science and automation.

As the Senior Product Development Manager, you will participate in the creation of Product strategy and be accountable for its execution, ensuring that user problems are understood, discovered, and translated properly, so the team can efficiently work on the most valuable initiatives. Being part of a product team(s), you will bring the voice of the customer into daily development conversations, lead the planning and user story definition, and ensure that the solutions being delivered address our client’s most pressing needs. You will apply subject matter expertise to work independently and deliver feasible solutions to our customer problems, as well as remove any roadblocks to proceed with work.

Key Responsibilities and Expectations:

• Clearly understand and participate in the product vision and strategy, as well as the overall end-to-end process and data flow (ingestion, processing, storing, and delivery), and participate in the development of one or more of these process steps
• Collect business requirements from stakeholders/clients and work with our engineering and product teams to translate business into product & engineering requirements and maintain the product roadmap
• Support, create, and validate user personas, product discoveries, user stories, and acceptance criteria for product delivery and sprints
• Prioritize and manage the work of a cross-functional squad team, handling any level of complex product development and user problems
• Proactively, and continuously bring innovative solutions within the squad that solve customer problems across a diverse set of global customers
• Deliver independently, without significant support of the Product Lead
• Develop success metrics and measure the performance of deployed features
• Collaborate with the delivery team and product marketing towards successful deployment of product updates, and features and communicate delays and issues
• Proactively ensure important tasks and decisions are made while advocating towards solving the customer problem
• Communicate to other teams and leadership on the status of product initiatives and roadmap objectives and collaborate with the delivery team 

• Min 5 years of relevant experience building viable products 
• Highly analytical and able to think and explain all product initiatives through data
• Strong experience in planning, execution, and delivery in an agile environment
• Proven ability to use qualitative insights and data analysis to define and measure the success of products and platform
• Highly proactive and passionate about solving problems
• Always curious and feel that you have much left to learn
• Track record of successfully launching and constantly improving data-driven products
• Detail and results-oriented with a passion for problem-solving
• Exceptional interpersonal skills; strong written and verbal communication skills
• Fluent in English

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