Product Manager - Wiredrive (playa vista, california) in Los Angeles, California For Sale
Job Description:
THE OPPORTUNITY: Wiredrive is looking for a Product Manager to drive execution of our strategic roadmap. Reporting to the VP of Product, this position involves regular communication with senior management on roadmaps, progress, risks, and change management. The ideal candidate is a creative leader with superior analytical abilities across business and technology. This opportunity requires excellent product management skills, including problem solving, clear communication, and a thorough understanding of Wiredrive's technology stack. At the core of the position is excellence in planning and execution. Qualified candidates have extensive experience building product roadmaps for execution, managing a large backlog, writing detailed user stories, and delivering features that meet rapidly evolving customer needs. THE RESPONSIBILITIES:Maintains, refines (grooms), and prioritizes the product backlog based on product strategy as needed, including user stories and defects (bugs) so that each successive sprint can be planned clearly and efficiently.Acts as the voice of customer for educating the engineering team on the business domain, championing the user's experience.Authors product requirements and user stories in conjunction with stakeholders as necessary ensuring that market and user needs are met.Works with UX to deliver the feature people want in the easiest way possible.Provides sprint goals and tactical requirements for scrum team including strategic goal alignment and success metricsActively address ambiguity and change within the sprint development cycle.Approves sprint reprioritization and story adoption.Accepts and rejects sprint work.Plans and approves software releases to production environment.Works as internal launch manager to ensure coordination of non:software related aspects of product launch are satisfied (i.e. internal communications, training and demonstration, as well as documentation).Ensures expected product behavior and business logic are accounted for and up:to:date. THE REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS/PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:EDUCATION: B.S. in Computer Science or Engineering, or commensurate experience (M.B.A. or related Masters Degree a plus).EXPERIENCE: 4:6 years of experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner of an enterprise software application (SaaS / Web application experience a plus).Strong experience managing and motivating successful agile development teams (product owner, product management, or scrum master certifications a major plus).History of delivering results (i.e. features that meet customer expectations as well as strategic goals).Hit the ground running : be a strong technical "influencer" with a desire to own and drive the product.Strong knowledge and understanding of service:oriented architecture, RESTful API development, build processes, and release models (engineering experience a major plus)fortable making decisions with limited and changing information.Must be able to work onsite (no remote candidates will be considered for this role).
Company Description:
THE COMPANY: Wiredrive (wiredrive)
Wiredrive is a fast growing, privately:owned SaaS company with headquarters in Playa Vista and offices in New York City and London. With over xxxx+ customers worldwide, Wiredrive has become the application of choice for creative professionals in the advertising, television and motion:picture industries who need to upload, manage and present their digital media. Wiredrives client base is made up of the top global advertising agencies, television/movie production companies, post:production houses and brands. See more here: wiredrive/about.
HIGHLIGHTS:
Founded: xxxx
Headquarters: Playa Vista, CA
Bi:Coastal and International: Offices in the major media capitals of Los Angeles, New York, and London.
Employees: 50+ with significant growth, across all divisions, over the last year.
Customers: Over xxxx + paying global customers including Nike, Beats by Dre, Red Bull, Universal Stud
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