Product Manager

Remote Opportunity for a Product Manager!
We'd love you to join our growing product development team whose mission is to create people-centric software experiences that empower our local news and digital partners. True to our purpose, we help small teams play big!
Be part of a digital media landscape in the midst of rapid change; our team is at the center of a new content, marketing, operations, and revenue-sustainable experience that puts product, people and performance first. Your management of the product line spans a significant portion of the local news digital media US ecosystem, including the Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News, the Boulder Daily Camera and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, as well as our Adtaxi digital marketing agency and affiliate company Tribune Publishing. Check out our local news portfolio to see if we operate in a market near you.
As part of the broader Product Development team, you will contribute to a culture that prioritizes continuous learning, autonomous decision making, agility, and pragmatism. Join us to kick-start your career at a company that offers substantial personal and professional growth opportunities via a hands-on learning approach and a flexible working style.
As a highly technical business analyst/product owner, you'll execute analytics strategy acting as a subject matter expert in business intelligence. The team will lean on you to serve as a technical liaison between marketing operations, advertising, editorial, and digital product teams to put together specific technical requirements for the analytics team who will execute on strategy and complete deliverables for stakeholders. The ideal candidate will be highly detail-oriented, have technical knowledge and close familiarity with database management, query-based languages and platforms (such as SQL or BigQuery), scripts (JS), tag management systems (such as GTM), BI visualization tools (such as Tableau or Data Studio), high-level understanding of data engineering and data warehouse work. Coding skillset is a plus.
What you will do:

• Able to be a technical platform owner with deep understanding of several analytics tools, platforms, and front-ends such as Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Tableau, Data Studio, Google Big Query
• Understands data modeling, relational database concepts, and a strong knowledge of SQL and SQLServer. Experience with big data and nested data structures.
• Has a strong technical analytical thought process and ability to interpret, present, and communicate findings effectively across audiences.
• Creates and executes the product roadmap, facilitating collaboration with internal stakeholders and other product managers to drive the anticipated value agreed to as part of the agile planning process.
• Designs release experiments and validates hypotheses through customer feedback and analytics.
• Ensures the right work is brought into the team backlog, broken down, and prioritized or rejected.
• Articulates functional details to developers based on customer requirements to align product strategy and definition to product delivery.
• Communicates product delivery status and progress, frequently seeking feedback from stakeholders and customers
• Writes user stories, acceptance criteria and prioritizes the team backlog to articulate how a requirement would be implemented. Includes identification of customer use cases, edge cases, dependencies, and acceptance criteria including non-functional requirements.
• Adheres to industry-accepted product owner agile principles, participates in Agile ceremonies e.g., daily scrum, sprint planning meetings, retros.

What you will bring:

• Comfortable with performing analytical and statistical work independently in business intelligence tools used by the analytics team.
• Strong analytical thought process and ability to interpret and communicate findings effectively across audiences.
• Ability to critically think through data integrations between platforms, understanding the technical implications of different approaches to ETL (extract, transform, load) data from one system to another.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, dynamic environment
• Excited about data and data insights being a core driver of company efficiency and decision-making
• Able to constantly prioritize workload with minimal supervision and manage multiple priorities
• Strong interpersonal and interrelation skills with an ability to establish, build and maintain relationships with a variety of people across departments.
• Ability to motivate and influence others in meeting project deadlines
• Organized and detail oriented with excellent prioritization and time management skills.
• Outstanding communication skills, both written and spoken
• Comfortable with continuous learning and able to roll with changes.
• Technical degree or certification preferred, but not required. Professional experience could be a substitute.
• Agile product management training and at least 2 years of product management experience.
• Previous product, team, or department agile product management experience.
• Professional work experience in Advertising, Media, or Technology companies preferred.

The annual salary is $110,000. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, time in role, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, MediaNews Group offers a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
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