Product Manager

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About The Role:

The Product Manager for this role at Gracenote, the "dataset owner", holds ultimate responsibility for a specific set of core data, including defining the collection and delivery of data in our products. The PM works with a cross-functional team to solve challenging problems experienced by our customers and in the media industry. They drive where and how the dataset they oversee is delivered in our various products and platforms. In this role the PM leads initiatives, collaborating with several groups within the constraints of our business, to deliver enhanced features and new products. Delivering solid solutions involves collaboration with engineering, customer experience, operations, marketing, sales, finance and legal. This position is an individual contributor role. The PM needs to successfully align colleagues, stakeholders, key executives, and the product team on the vision and strategy for their data, to drive the solutions via end-to-end ownership.

Responsibilities:

• Create and manage metadata products that power the TV entertainment solutions for the top cable, OTT, CE, and digital clients worldwide used by hundreds of millions of consumers.

• Work closely with clients and partners to understand their vision for the next generation of TV entertainment and the metadata needed to support it. Meld their business problems with an understanding of the market to define a clear product vision for your data product that aligns with the overall business and product strategy and drives product growth.

• Collaborate with internal cross-functional stakeholders and external partners to prioritize and deliver your compelling roadmap that fulfills the product vision.Become the Subject Matter Expert on the video metadata available, and internal delivery pipelines to ensure you can deliver the best data product for your clients.

• Track industry trends, standards organizations activity, and the competitive landscape.

• Engage with Engineering to define the optimal XML/JSON delivery schemas that allow clients to effortlessly integrate our metadata products into their backend systems.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with a technical focus or equivalent work experience.

• 3+ years working on technology-powered products as a product manager, product designer, engineer, data analyst, data scientist, or user researcher.

• Proven ability to build strong relationships and work effectively with cross-functional teams - engineering, customer experience, operations, marketing, sales, finance and legal - and company leaders.

• Experience managing projects and stakeholders.

• Proven ability to deliver solutions to problems with many constraints.

• Ability to document solutions in a well-structured, data-informed, written narrative.

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum work environment as a Product Owner: writing requirements, engaging with Engineering to define the technical solution and following the development process.

• Comfortable with XML, JSON, SQL, and APIs.A passion for rolling up your sleeves and digging into the details of data.

• Highly organized, proactive, critical thinkerExcellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Candidate must be willing to primarily work during regular business hours for EST

• Must live in the Mexico City surrounding area with the ability to commute to the office for orientation & onboarding.

Additional Skills / Preferred Experience:

• Experience in OTT, TV broadcast, or supporting customers who develop products for digital content consumption.

• Experience with at least one programming language, ideally R, Python, Ruby or JavaScript.

• Strong passion for Television and Movie content, sports, metadata, and user experiences on entertainment platforms.

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ABOUT THE TEAM

Gracenote, a Nielsen company, provides music, video, and sports content along with technologies to the world's hottest entertainment products and brands, which is also a global standard for music and video recognition which is supported by the largest source of entertainment data. Gracenote features descriptions of more than 200 million tracks, TV listings for 85+ countries, and statistics from 4,500 sports leagues and competitions.

ABOUT NIELSEN

By connecting clients to audiences, we fuel the media industry with the most accurate understanding of what people listen to and watch. To discover what audiences love, we measure across all channels and platforms—from podcasts to streaming TV to social media. And when companies and advertisers are truly connected to their audiences, they can see the most important opportunities and accelerate growth.

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