Associate Product Manager

Job Description Summary

We are looking for an Associate Product Manager to join the Product Management team. This person will assist our team to create new products and features as well as updates and enhancements to existing products, from the idea stage to initial scoping, build out, and launch. Main responsibilities include assisting with research on user problems and challenges, identifying and documenting product enhancements to solve those problems, partnering with engineering to scope & size those product features, answering engineering questions and signing off on products as they are being developed and helping to evangelize newly built product features to sales, marketing and existing customers.

What you’ll do:

• Partner with a Product Manager to own and define the product roadmap for their product lines
• Assist with defining user personas including identification of user problems and serve as user evangelist
• Research our customers and the market generally, to understand, validate and become an expert in their challenges and problems
• Analyze usage of our existing products to understand how customers are interacting with our solutions and if they are achieving their goal
• Assist with articulating product goals and measures of success to business
• Perform analysis of competitors and identify competitive threats
• Work with engineering teams to clearly scope and roughly size product solutions before we start development so we understand the time and effort required to build those solutions
• Helping validate product hypotheses with surveys, usage analytics, A/B testing, etc.
• Direct research efforts of Business Analysts working on the product team
• Run brainstorming & interview sessions with end users
• Write clear, coherent user stories with detailed acceptance criteria
• Generate simplified wireframes and design mocks to define user flow
• Assist product manager in running groomings, standups, post mortems and negotiating feature build out with engineering teams
• Conduct timely product reviews and sign-offs of new features and work with engineering to thoroughly user-test and ensure resulting build matches what was committed to in each sprint
• Assist product manager with go-to-market strategy for new features and products, including consumer-ready communications for marketing & sales teams
• Attend daily stand ups and biweekly sprint planning with engineering teams to obliterate blockers, manage dependencies / prerequisites while product is being developed

Qualifications

• 1-2 years experience in product management, product development, product design or similar field

• Very strong verbal and communication skills

• Familiarity or experience with Agile and scrum software development processes

• Strong organizational skills and ability to handle multiple tasks

• Strong analytical problem solving and solution finding skills

• Very strong writing and presentation skills (including but not limited to describing simple user stories, jobs-to-be-done requirements for engineering teams, value proposition statements, etc.)

• Experience working in SaaS organizations and comfortable working within large, cross-functional teams that include engineering, customer success, marketing, and sales.

• Relevant industry experience, either with marketing & advertising technology or developing on Facebook & other social APIs.

• Positive, upbeat and customer-service oriented

• Ability to manage changing priorities within a highly dynamic environment

• Ability to perform duties with limited oversight

• Willing and able to learn new skills as required

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About Unified

Unified is a leading provider of social advertising services and solutions powered by data and technology. Our proprietary technology is designed to change the business of social by helping brands achieve unprecedented social marketing results. Unified provides expert Managed and Professional Services super-charged by innovative operations and insights platforms, as well as cutting-edge Data Management and Audience Insights solutions. With a range of offerings, we are able to create custom solutions for our clients, tailored to their needs and goals. Headquartered in New York City and with offices in Los Angeles and Atlanta, Unified has managed over $5B in social advertising data for the world’s largest brands and agencies and run more than $1B in social advertising campaigns.

For the last four years, Unified has been recognized by AdAge and Crain’s as one of the “Best Places To Work”. For more information, visit www.Unified.com or follow @Unified on Twitter. Unified is an equal opportunity employer.