Dow Jones: Product Manager

SmartMoney.com

The Wall Street Journal Digital Network

 

Do you have a passion for creating great products? Do you have a strong interest in market data, news and defining the future of online personal finance? SmartMoney.com, the leader in personal finance news and information, is looking for a motivated Product Manager to lead our product strategy and execution on multiple fronts -- from building finance tools to support our growing audience to creating products that support new business opportunities.

 

As a Product Manager, you are a flexible, results-oriented and experienced leader who will drive SmartMoney.com?s products from inception to launch. You have visionary product insight, significant technical expertise and extensive leadership and business skills. You combine a great instinct for developing compelling products with a strong focus on users with a technical aptitude to work with a world-class engineering team and the business sense to drive product goals and strategies.

 

·         Develop product roadmap and strategy

·         Communicate effectively throughout the organization on status, issues, and results

·         Subject matter expert on your products, best practices, competition and latest industry trends and regularly track product success metrics

·         Understand, gather, and document concise user, business and product requirements for existing product enhancements and new initiatives, including scenarios, flows, edge cases, business justification and operational impact

·         Evaluate pros and cons of different choices and understand tradeoffs between scope and time to market

·         Manage backlog to ensure requests are captured, prioritized, and communicated

·         Conduct primary or secondary research as needed

·         Create preliminary design concepts

·         Effectively partner with stakeholders through the product lifecycle including Engineering, Project Management, Design, Sales, Marketing, Customer Service

 

·         5+ years online product experience preferably in the news and information space

·         Passion for market data and finance strongly desired

·         Demonstrated success leading, defining, and launching robust and innovative online products

·         Ability to gather user and business requirements and convert them into a winning product vision

·         Significant people and organizational management skills. A natural leader and mentor

·         Strong communication skills with the ability to evangelize the merits of SmartMoney.com?s products internally and externally

·         Strong quantitative and analytical abilities, with deep understanding of the Internet, Mobile platform development, market data and on-line advertising

·         Entrepreneurial experience and a passion for creating great products are highly valued

·         Strong sense of urgency and comfort in a fast paced environment