Principal Product Manager, Web Framework

Job Title
Principal Product Manager, Web Framework
Job Description
About Your Role:
Dotdash seeks a Principal Product Manager, Web Framework, who will help us build a world-class platform that is used by 20+ development teams driving innovation for more than 40 brands that reach over 300 million users each month. You'll work at the heart of our brand ecosystem, partnering with publishing and brand teams to create and execute the strategy for the platform. You'll report directly to the SVP of Product.
Our ideal Principal Product Manager, Web Framework has an established background in developing services and infrastructure, a very strong technical background, solid business judgment, great communication skills, and a motivation to over-achieve. To be successful in this role, you must have a passion for designing and building high-quality, robust, scalable and extensible products, and be a natural problem solver who is excited to find creative technology solutions to address user and technology needs.
About Your Contributions:

• Product Vision: work with the CTO, technical leaders, and product owners across the organization to define a product roadmap for the features and capabilities of our platform. Examples include: bringing page speed, accessibility, and template enhancements to market; helping define best practices and standards for shared components, functionality, and code; and helping to solve interoperability challenges across code bases.
• Product Development: as a product owner, work with cross-functional, agile teams to develop, launch, optimize, and maintain/retire features in a fast-paced environment; make the call on desired product functionality and make real-time decisions to ensure that we are on track to meet business goals. Your teams will be building the toolkit for other product dev teams to build with.
• User Focus: create solutions for users (i.e. DDM developers) first; research what your users might want or need to ensure we are creating products for them that are as helpful as possible by conducting discovery, qualitative research, and competitive analysis. Also, help the team to increase empathy for the downstream developer user and be an advocate for their needs.
• Leadership: act as a leader to cross-functional, internal teams so that they are excited, motivated, and know what is expected; effectively evangelize the product vision with various stakeholders throughout the company, and prioritize and drive initiatives across multiple engineering teams. Build for the long term, and be the defender of sustainable architecture.
• Communication: document and communicate product requirements (user stories, briefs, designs, etc) that are clear, thorough, timely and convey the desired functional experience to all internal parties; be the product SME from a functional perspective, showcasing, championing, and finding ways to constantly innovate.
• Documentation: understand interfaces and services enough to write and improve technical documentation, and interpret and translate technical capabilities and constraints for non-technical stakeholders.

About You:

• "Platform thinking" is part of your DNA. You naturally build for scale and reuse.
• You have 5+ years of hands-on product management-day-to-day product ownership and ideation with scrum teams. Previous experience working on shared platforms utilized by multiple teams is preferred.
• You're excellent at communicating and collaborating with a wide range of teams and stakeholders to build great products, particularly senior engineering leaders and other product owners.
• You're able to juggle the needs of multiple technical leaders and product managers, developing strategic product plans for each of them.
• You possess an innate desire to collect, synthesize, and analyze data to inform your decision-making.
• You have a passion for figuring out user problems and pain points.
• You're capable of developing a big-picture product strategy for meeting user needs, selling it, and then working out the details to get the plan over the finish line.
• You're fluent in Agile principles and methodology.

It is the policy of Meredith Operations Corporation ("Dotdash Meredith", "the Company") to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. Accommodation requests can be made by emailing [email protected] .
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Pay Range
Salary: $112,875 - $161,250
The pay range above represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position and may change in the future. Actual pay may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to work location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Dotdash Meredith's total compensation package for employees. Other compensation may include annual bonuses, and short- and long-term incentives. In addition, Dotdash Meredith provides to employees (and their eligible family members) a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, unlimited paid time off (PTO), adoption or surrogate assistance, donation matching, tuition reimbursement, basic life insurance, basic accidental death & dismemberment, supplemental life insurance, supplemental accident insurance, commuter benefits, short term and long term disability, health savings and flexible spending accounts, family care benefits, a generous 401K savings plan with a company match program, 10-12 paid holidays annually, and generous paid parental leave (birthing and non-birthing parents), all of which may vary depending on the specific nature of your employment with Dotdash Meredith and your work location. We also offer voluntary benefits such as pet insurance, accident, critical and hospital indemnity health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance.
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