Careers

Product Development Manager

AudienceScience, Inc. has an exciting opportunity for a Product Development Manager within the Product Development team. The Product Development Manager at AudienceScience manages the design and development of the company’s applications. The manager functions as a key interface between business, development, operations, and product marketing to advance the company’s objectives. They formulate actionable strategies to create a better product for its consumers.

Responsibilities:

The Product Development Manager is responsible for accomplishing the objectives and responsibilities outlined below:

• The position works closely with key business stakeholders to determine product needs and direction. 
• He/she translates this information into a set of business requirements and product requests which are vetted and prioritized according to key success factors. 
• The Product Manager will consider internal product development and/or external options to solve business needs. 
• He/she is also responsible for communicating the progress and milestones of the product development cycle back to the business stakeholders.
• The Product Manager coordinates with the Program Manager to direct the product development process. 
• The Product Manager must reconcile the priorities of business projects and requests with available development resources to determine the content of sprints. 
• He/she generates comprehensive business requirement documentation to guide the development tasks, and is accountable for the solutions meeting the needs of the business.

Typical tasks include:

• Manage and maintain the product backlog
• Determine priorities of product requests
• Manage cross functional project teams utilized for major product initiatives
• Construct delivery plans for new product initiatives
• Help lead sprint planning, including creation of stories
• Communicate project status to business stakeholders
• Analyze deployed applications, keeping track of its maturity in the software development lifecycle, utilization, and fit in the product portfolio

Requirements/Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Information Systems, or equivalent
• 5+ years of full-time relevant experience
• Experience with distributed, multi-tiered systems
• Experience with generating requirements and designing web applications

Successful candidates will have:

• Knowledge of web analytics and online advertising
• Knowledge of HTML, Linux, Java, Internet protocols, relational databases, Hadoop
• Knowledge of Agile or Scrum

AudienceScience offers an energetic, fun, business-casual work environment. To apply, e-mail your resume and cover letter, preferably as MS Word document attachments, to jobs@audiencescience.com.