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Digital Product Manager

Full TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 1863H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

Pennsylvania

Posted

49 days ago

Salary

$88.5K - $121.6K / year

Bachelor Degree6 yrs expEnglish

Job Description

• Responsible for leading the digital product and platform strategy for PNAS and the NAS journal publishing program. • Direct oversight and responsibility for online publishing technology platforms, as well as customer relationship systems and other products as assigned. • This role supports other business units’ growth strategy and provides coordinated engagement and prioritization to deliver on strategic initiatives and infrastructure priorities. • Contributes to the creation of a digital platforms strategy and drives alignment and implementation of that strategy across PNAS platforms, including PNAS.org, Journal Production System, and Salesforce. • Provides guidance and consultation on digital strategy for PNAS Nexus journal hosting platform. • Manages two or more staff members, overseeing and evaluating employee contribution, performance, and development. • Supports relationships for successful implementation with vendors, developers and partners for digital platforms. • Establishes and manages performance to policies, procedures, key performance indicators, and service level agreements and revises as appropriate. • Incorporates User Experience Design methods and processes into product development process. • Assists in motivating multiple groups consisting of management, editorial, production, and marketing to achieve the business and market goals. • Defines deliverables, milestones and project objectives with full accountability for meeting all project deadlines with internal stakeholders and vendors. • Drives project tasks to conclusion. • Manages the long-term viability of PNAS online through regular customer feedback, ongoing bug/enhancement tracking, market innovations and requirements gathering. • Communicates the status of projects with timely identification, tracking, and resolution of project issues. • Manages product troubleshooting, resolution and ensure product quality assurance by reviewing new functionality, technology, partner integrations and bug fixes prior to deployment. • Performs competitive analysis and benchmarking as needed for industry best practices on content delivery and online technologies. • Analyzes and implements key analytics and usage measures to understand the effectiveness and impact of the online platform.

Job Requirements

  • Excellent knowledge of publishing technology, industry trends, standards, and implementation of these technologies and their application.
  • Proven track record in the responsibilities above and of driving product growth through innovation.
  • Demonstrable communication, project management, problem solving, and quantitative analysis skills.
  • Strong leadership, selling and influencing skills that achieve results at all levels of management.
  • Experience in presenting and communicating key concepts and ideas across all areas of the organization.
  • Ability to undertake tasks broad in nature, requiring ingenuity and originality and to solve intellectual problems of appreciable complexity and variety.
  • Ability to operate using appreciable latitude for independent judgment and action.
  • Ability to work successfully in a team environment and to form and maintain effective teams.
  • Ability to develop relationships with co-workers and employees in other National Academies' departments through effective communication.
  • Excellent communication skills with a proven ability to effectively interact with all levels of employees.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Business or related field, or equivalent knowledge.
  • Six years of related professional experience.
  • Four to six years of experience in developing and managing complex product strategies for electronic information products preferred.

Benefits

  • medical, dental and vision insurance
  • life insurance
  • disability coverage
  • retirement and savings benefits
  • leave benefits such as paid holidays and paid personal leave
  • transportation subsidies
  • education assistance

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