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Job description
Compensation: USD 310,000 - USD 340,000 - yearly
Company Description
VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.
Job Description
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced Product leader to help us build the future of CNBC’s digital products. This is an exciting time to be joining the product and tech team at Versant Media, as we re-imagine our brands for the future. CNBC’s large affluent and influential audience and its deep brand resonance among retail investors makes it perfectly positioned to translate this into a powerful set of content and tools that subscribers would be willing to pay for. Your role as VP of product is to deeply understand our users and innovate for them, thus delivering digital growth for CNBC.
The VP of product for CNBC will be responsible for helping craft the product strategy along with the Chief Product and Technology Officer and other key executives and stakeholders. You will lead a team of product managers and designers and work closely with the VP of technology and the VP of project management.
This role is perfect for someone with experience building for retail investors, fintech or media. You are someone who loves building products customers love and coaching and mentoring a product team to understand customer needs deeply and apply judgement on what to build. Experience of building AI features and how to use AI to improve product practices is highly desired.
Responsibilities
Work with the CPTO and executive stakeholders to craft a product strategy for CNBC’s digital products
Use the business and product strategy to come up with feature ideas that are then tested with consumers and validated using existing data and insights
Craft a roadmap of features that is ambitious and communicate that roadmap to stakeholders in a transparent way
Hire, motivate and performance manage a team of product managers and product designers
Coordinate the roadmap with the technology team to ensure we are building features the right way, but also allowing time to build new capabilities, pay down technical debt and bug fix
Ensure that the product and design work is rooted in customer insights
Ensure creative problem solving by the product team so that solutions are provided and alternative approaches considered when trying to solve customer pain-points
Ensure design and UX work is of the highest standards and has the right mix of customer understanding, taste-making and art of the possible
Transform how the product team works with AI built into the workflow to remove grunt work and speed up requirements and spec writing
This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Salary range: $310,000-$340,000. Bonus eligible
Additional Requirements:
Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
Minimum of 7-10 years of product management experience with at least 5 years leading a product and design team
Demonstrated ability to drive product management, product planning and roadmaps, including launching new products
Proven understanding of web, mobile apps and OTT products in the retail investing, fintech or consumer (B2C) space and/or in media and publishing
Strong product judgement and product taste with proven ability to hire and coach for that
Deep understanding of the retail investor space and the tools and competitors in the space
Strong understanding of how to build features using AI, including chatbots, LLM prompting for summarization or insights
Knowledge of building personalized experiences including content recommendations and personalized alerts
Desired Qualifications
Ability to work with senior executives and advise them on how to approach complex product problems through user insights and smart prioritization of the roadmap
Proven ability to manage a multi-disciplinary team and to hire well and create a well-performing team
Strong experience on evangelizing for the customer through the use of research, user insights, user testing etc.
Experience working in subscription business, a fintech or in the retail investing space with experience in media as an added bonus
Strong communication skills and ability to present to senior executives
Strong ability to run a cohesive, collaborative team successfully and build successful relationships across business areas
Compensation: $310,000-$340,000 USD
Additional Information
As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to .
VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.
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