Product Manager

What You'll Do

Hearst Technology Services (HTS) is hiring a Product Manager. We are seeking candidates who enjoy collaborating to arrive at innovative and intuitive solutions and are sensitive to diverse perspectives of stakeholders.

This role requires partnership across all teams to establish and support business processes, gather requirements, document needs, capture value stories, and manage projects with a focus. An understanding of business analysis and project management are imperative in this role. A successful candidate will have an analytical mindset, excellent troubleshooting skills, and a passion for customer focus and software.

The individual contributor Product Manager will be able to work unsupervised and keep their direct manager, the Director of Product Management aware of pertinent updates, blockers, and beyond.

• Create and manage functional requirements for product enhancements and projects
• Define, quantify, and realize the value story for all product enhancements and projects
• Manage business demos and user acceptance testing

• Manage and communicate project statuses to all stakeholders
• Manage and align product taxonomies to current/future business needs
• Communicate notable releases/features to relevant business partners
• Ensure effective and open communication with all business partners to enable project work and ensure we meet the business needs and requirements
• Communicate efficiently with non-technical users

• Work in a matrix organization with peer Enterprise Applications, SRE, Program Management, and User Enablement teams
• Think and work independently, demonstrate creativity to help deliver quick and actionable results
• Provide occasional off-hours support to address outages, deployments, and pressing system issues

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years previous relevant work experience; ideally with experience in project management, business analysis, business relationship management, or product management
• Minimum of 2 years of client-facing project management or business analysis experience
• Strong Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills
• Demonstrated requirements analysis and delivery (i.e. conducting user interviews, documenting requirements, confirming requirements and implementing the solution).
• Excellent communication (verbal and written), presentation and analysis skills
• Motivated, self-starter, independent, results oriented and professional
• Collaborative team player who is accustomed to working with many different people
• Energetic and a people person with high emotional intelligence
• Ability to adapt to changing priorities and requirements, including the ability to juggle multiple competing priorities and deadlines
• Ability to travel to other Hearst offices as needed
• Ability to manage through competing/conflicting requests and obtain consensus

Additional Requirements

• Experience solutioning with products like JIRA, CODA, Figma, JQL queries and filters within JIRA, Confluence
• Quality Trained (I.e. Certified Scrum Master, PMP or Six Sigma Black Belt Certification)
• Ability to think creatively to come up with new solutions

In accordance with applicable law, Hearst is required to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role if hired in New York City. The reasonable estimate, if hired in New York City, is $110,000-$130,000. Please note this information is specific to those hired in New York City. If this role is open to candidates outside of New York City, the salary range would be aligned to that specific location. A final decision on the successful candidate's starting salary will be based on a number of permissible, non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to skills and experience, training, certifications, and education.

Hearst provides a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, 401(k), paid holidays and paid time off, employee assistance programs, and more.

Hearst is a leading global, diversified media, information and services company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN; global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters; 33 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, which reach a combined 19% of U.S. viewers; newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany, New York); more than 300 magazines around the world, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Men's Health and Car and Driver, and digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA; and investments in emerging digital entertainment companies such as Complex Networks.

Hearst is an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action employer. Hearst does not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. Follow us on Twitter @Hearst. To learn more about Hearst, visit hearst.com.

As part of its continued efforts to maintain a safe workplace for employees, Hearst requires that all employees who receive a written offer of employment on or after November 8, 2021 be fully vaccinated (as defined by the CDC) against the coronavirus by the first day of employment as a condition of employment, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Hearst will consider requests for reasonable accommodations due to medical and/or religious reasons on an individual basis in accordance with applicable legal requirements.