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Confidential lists this Technical Product Manager opportunity in worcester, Massachusetts. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
We're looking for an experienced Technical Product Manager to own the product lifecycle of our mobile app monetization solutions from ideation through launch and ongoing optimization. In this role, you'll partner closely with engineering, design, and business stakeholders to build, iterate, and scale products that deliver measurable results.
The ideal candidate will have extensive knowledge of the Ad Tech ecosystem and possess working knowledge of at least one programming language relevant to mobile app development for both iOS and Android platforms. Our product and engineering teams move fast. We tackle new challenges every week, ship quickly, and continuously improve based on user feedback and performance data. If you thrive in a highly agile environment, enjoy solving complex technical problems, and love working with a smart, collaborative team, you'll fit right in.
Essential Functions:
Deliver against and support the vision, strategy, and roadmap for assigned product(s) in alignment with strategic company goals.
Develop mobile app products and solutions that help app publishers to monetize their audience through display and video advertising. Examples of solutions include monetization SDKs for iOS (Native), Android (Native), Unity, and React Native.
Establish metrics to ensure the products are launched on schedule.
Work closely with the head of Product and Software Engineering to maintain the schedule for technical development.
Develop detailed feature requirements and strategic roadmaps.
Communicate with developers to understand the effort and resources needed for each project, using video chat, text chat, email, and documentation tools.
Prioritize and communicate user and technical product requirements to various engineering teams.
Stay in daily communication with developers and designers to make sure projects are executing on expected timelines, and to quickly recognize problems when they occur.
Keep stakeholders apprised of project progress and expected releases.
Maintain scope of projects, preventing scope creep from threatening release dates or project coherency.
Recognize miscommunication between stakeholders and developers, or areas where requirements might need to evolve due to surprises or oversights, and rectify those situations.
Keep the customer service and marketing departments apprised of upcoming features.
Requirements:
2 years of Technical or Product experience in the Ad Tech and mobile app space
Extensive knowledge of at least one programming language relevant to app development for both iOS and Android.
Experience working with APIs, either integrating a third-party API or creating your own when necessary.
Knowledge of mobile app display and video advertising
Demonstrated communication skills in various forms of writing and spoken communication, particularly communication regarding technical matters
Experience writing marketing and technical product requirements
Experience working in an agile environment, applying agile project management principles and tools.
Capability to identify and mitigate development and implementation risks
Experience working in a team using Agile development and project management practices.
Nice to haves:
Exposure and/or experience with App and OTT
Experience in business process mapping
Who can apply
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