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Digital Product Manager
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