Product Manager

About the Role

FreeWheel, a Comcast company, provides comprehensive ad platforms for publishers, advertisers, and media buyers. Powered by premium video content, robust data, and advanced technology, the company makes it easier for buyers and sellers to transact across all screens, data types, and sales channels. FreeWheel has offices in nine countries and can insert advertisements around the world.

FreeWheel is hiring a Product Manager to join the team working on cross-platform video advertising technology. As the video advertising ecosystem evolves, the team is looking for someone to help define the optimization and machine learning applications within FreeWheel's Streaming Hub platform. This role will focus on expanding the suite of Machine Learning-powered ad decision capabilities, including supply optimization, advertiser demand optimization, and more, within the Streaming Hub. The successful candidate will engage with clients, engineering, marketing, sales, services, and product management, while shaping the vision and definition around the next generation of product capabilities.

Potential for up to 20% time for travel (domestic and international).

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end ideation, design, and delivery of features and technologies that enable FreeWheel clients to execute against cross-platform video advertising.
• Help set product strategy and direction for hybrid and linear ad decisioning products at FreeWheel.
• Identify new product opportunities from industry trends and challenges and perform market analysis to inform product decisions and roadmap.
• Holistically understand core business problems and requirements from clients, prospects, sales, and support in order to invent efficient and useful solutions.
• Using agile methodologies, oversee the engineering team's product development efforts, ensuring the final product is functional, operational, and meets design and feature specifications.
• Partner with product management, user experience, sales, marketing, advisory services, and client solutions to successfully position products and features for client use.
• Use limited resources effectively by building business cases for new products and features and prioritizing needs based on team objectives; clearly highlight business use cases and vet assumptions prior to further investment.
• Define and consistently measure quantifiable success metrics of owned products with each feature.
• Maintain a general awareness and understanding of the advertising/media operations and television/content-providers landscape, including vendors, partners, and new technologies.

Requirements

• 3-5 years of Product Management or equivalent experience with a successful history of delivering customer-oriented, complex solutions in a fast-moving environment, ideally in the digital advertising space.
• Computer science, math, or engineering undergraduate degree or equivalent; MBA or equivalent graduate degree strongly preferred.
• Experience across the product management lifecycle for enterprise products or services.
• Proven ability to quickly learn, understand, and expand complex products, processes, and concepts.
• Superior communication skills for addressing colleagues and customers; the ability to present complicated concepts in a clear and concise manner to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience understanding and evaluating client requests, translating requests into detailed designs, and guiding engineering through implementation.
• Ability to quickly adapt to changes in the industry, development processes, and business priorities.
• Good organizational skills and strong attention to detail.
• Passionate about what you do, and excited about the opportunity ahead of FreeWheel.
• 2-5 years of relevant work experience.

Skills

• Requirements Specification
• Advertising
• Product Development
• Product Management
• Product Backlog Management
• Agile Methodology

Pay

New York Pay Range: $125,204.74 - $187,807.12. Comcast intends to offer the selected candidate base pay within this range, dependent on job-related, non-discriminatory factors such as experience. The application window is 30 days from the date the job is posted, unless the number of applicants requires it to close sooner or later. Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus.

Benefits

Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. Benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most and should help you care for those who matter most. Comcast provides an array of options, expert guidance, and always-on tools personalized to meet your needs, supporting you physically, financially, and emotionally through big milestones and in your everyday life.