MediaNews Group
Product Manager
MediaNews Group, Denver, Colorado, United States, 80285
Summary
As a technical product owner on the Data Warehouse team, you’ll execute product strategy by prioritizing and defining product roadmaps in an agile setting. The team will lean on you to serve as a technical liaison between marketing operations, advertising, editorial, and digital product teams to put together specific technical requirements for the Data Warehouse team who will execute on well-defined deliverables for stakeholders. The ideal candidate will be highly detail-oriented, have technical knowledge and close familiarity with database management (AWS), query-based languages and platforms (such as SQL or BigQuery), and a high-level understanding of data engineering and data warehouse work. Coding skill set is a plus.
What You Will Do
Be a technical platform owner with deep understanding of data warehouse management.Create and execute the product roadmap, facilitating collaboration with internal stakeholders and other product managers to drive the anticipated value agreed to as part of the agile planning process.Ensure the right work is brought into the team backlog, broken down, and prioritized or rejected.Articulate functional details to developers based on customer requirements to align product strategy and definition to product delivery.Communicate product delivery status and progress, frequently seeking feedback from stakeholders and customers.Write user stories, acceptance criteria and prioritize the team backlog to articulate how a requirement would be implemented; includes identification of customer use cases, edge cases, dependencies, and acceptance criteria including non-functional requirements.Adhere to industry-accepted product owner agile principles, participate in agile ceremonies e.g., daily scrum, sprint planning meetings, retros.What You Will Bring
Analytical thought process and ability to interpret and communicate findings effectively across audiences.Ability to critically think through data integrations between platforms, understanding the technical implications of different approaches to ETL (extract, transform, load) data from one system to another.Thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, dynamic environment while constantly prioritizing workload with minimal supervision.Strong technical acumen and the ability to interpret, present, and communicate findings effectively across audiences.Excited about data and data insights being a core driver of company efficiency and decision-making.Interpersonal and interrelation skills with an ability to establish, build and maintain relationships with a variety of people across departments.Ability to motivate and influence others in meeting project deadlines.Organized and detail-oriented.Technical degree or certification preferred, but not required; professional experience could be a substitute.Agile product management training and at least 2 years of product management experience.Previous product, team, or department agile product management experience.Professional work experience in Advertising, Media, or Technology companies preferred.The annual salary range is $125,000. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, time in role, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, MediaNews Group offers a comprehensive benefits package, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
Who We Are
MediaNews Group is a leader in local news, committed to informing, inspiring and engaging readers with award-winning journalism in a diverse array of trusted publications that are integral parts of the communities they serve. MediaNews Group publishes 68 daily and more than 300 weekly publications throughout the United States, including the Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News, Orange County Register, St. Paul Pioneer Press and the Boston Herald. In print and online, our publications reach a combined audience of more than 60 million every month. We are proud of our long history of community service, providing essential news to our readers for more than 170 years. We believe that a free press is fundamental to a healthy democracy and we are committed to building a sustainable future for our journalism.
The Product & Technology team's mission is to create people-centric digital technology that empower our local news and partners by putting people, product, and performance first. True to our purpose, we help small teams play big! We build product experiences not only for our local news publications across the entire digital portfolio, now including our affiliate company Tribune Publishing, but also for the Adtaxi digital marketing agency as well. As part of our team, you will contribute to a culture that prioritizes and rewards continuous learning, decentralized decision making, expertise, agility, and pragmatism. Join us to kick-start your career at a company and team that offer substantial personal and professional growth opportunities via a hands-on learning approach and a flexible working style, founded on scaled agile principles and autonomous agile teams. Learn more at www.medianewsgroup.com.
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As a technical product owner on the Data Warehouse team, you’ll execute product strategy by prioritizing and defining product roadmaps in an agile setting. The team will lean on you to serve as a technical liaison between marketing operations, advertising, editorial, and digital product teams to put together specific technical requirements for the Data Warehouse team who will execute on well-defined deliverables for stakeholders. The ideal candidate will be highly detail-oriented, have technical knowledge and close familiarity with database management (AWS), query-based languages and platforms (such as SQL or BigQuery), and a high-level understanding of data engineering and data warehouse work. Coding skill set is a plus.
What You Will Do
Be a technical platform owner with deep understanding of data warehouse management.Create and execute the product roadmap, facilitating collaboration with internal stakeholders and other product managers to drive the anticipated value agreed to as part of the agile planning process.Ensure the right work is brought into the team backlog, broken down, and prioritized or rejected.Articulate functional details to developers based on customer requirements to align product strategy and definition to product delivery.Communicate product delivery status and progress, frequently seeking feedback from stakeholders and customers.Write user stories, acceptance criteria and prioritize the team backlog to articulate how a requirement would be implemented; includes identification of customer use cases, edge cases, dependencies, and acceptance criteria including non-functional requirements.Adhere to industry-accepted product owner agile principles, participate in agile ceremonies e.g., daily scrum, sprint planning meetings, retros.What You Will Bring
Analytical thought process and ability to interpret and communicate findings effectively across audiences.Ability to critically think through data integrations between platforms, understanding the technical implications of different approaches to ETL (extract, transform, load) data from one system to another.Thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, dynamic environment while constantly prioritizing workload with minimal supervision.Strong technical acumen and the ability to interpret, present, and communicate findings effectively across audiences.Excited about data and data insights being a core driver of company efficiency and decision-making.Interpersonal and interrelation skills with an ability to establish, build and maintain relationships with a variety of people across departments.Ability to motivate and influence others in meeting project deadlines.Organized and detail-oriented.Technical degree or certification preferred, but not required; professional experience could be a substitute.Agile product management training and at least 2 years of product management experience.Previous product, team, or department agile product management experience.Professional work experience in Advertising, Media, or Technology companies preferred.The annual salary range is $125,000. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, time in role, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, MediaNews Group offers a comprehensive benefits package, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
Who We Are
MediaNews Group is a leader in local news, committed to informing, inspiring and engaging readers with award-winning journalism in a diverse array of trusted publications that are integral parts of the communities they serve. MediaNews Group publishes 68 daily and more than 300 weekly publications throughout the United States, including the Denver Post, San Jose Mercury News, Orange County Register, St. Paul Pioneer Press and the Boston Herald. In print and online, our publications reach a combined audience of more than 60 million every month. We are proud of our long history of community service, providing essential news to our readers for more than 170 years. We believe that a free press is fundamental to a healthy democracy and we are committed to building a sustainable future for our journalism.
The Product & Technology team's mission is to create people-centric digital technology that empower our local news and partners by putting people, product, and performance first. True to our purpose, we help small teams play big! We build product experiences not only for our local news publications across the entire digital portfolio, now including our affiliate company Tribune Publishing, but also for the Adtaxi digital marketing agency as well. As part of our team, you will contribute to a culture that prioritizes and rewards continuous learning, decentralized decision making, expertise, agility, and pragmatism. Join us to kick-start your career at a company and team that offer substantial personal and professional growth opportunities via a hands-on learning approach and a flexible working style, founded on scaled agile principles and autonomous agile teams. Learn more at www.medianewsgroup.com.
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