Product Manager- WorldCat

Job Details

The Product Manager, WorldCat, owns the development and delivery for OCLC’s data ingest and enrichment services and the integration of WorldCat data across products. This role advances modernization of the data infrastructure, and services that make WorldCat an entity-first semantic data layer — extending data ingest pipeline capabilities, data enrichment mechanisms, and data interoperability across established and emerging data infrastructures.

Partnering closely with external stakeholders and internal cross-functional teams, the Product Manager drives product direction to translate market needs into innovative solutions.

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy and Planning
• Oversees market analysis and develops product strategy and business cases for WorldCat.
• Affirms new technology and adds value to existing products by improving features to create best in class solutions, build and scale platform capabilities, and reduce costs.
• Produces and maintains the product roadmap.
• Collaborates on release plans with Development.
• Collaborates with Finance on budgets and forecasts.

Leadership and Management

• Provides leadership to cross-functional product workgroups.
• Led Product management meetings.
• Resolves conflicts and drives consensus.
• Facilitates collaboration and communication and secures commitment between Development and Product Management and other divisional workgroups towards achievement of common goals.
• Develops and monitors progress on product roadmap.

Product Marketing Oversight and Consultation

• Assists in developing strategies for customer acquisition and retention; manages relationships with user groups.
• Collaborates with the marketing and sales team in the generation of compelling marketing and awareness plans/presentations.
• Understands how and when to commission market research to develop and maintain expertise in markets served, alternative services, new technology, and related standards.
• Analyzes reasons for OCLC product wins and losses against competition in the metadata/entity data space and provides meaningful input to product planning.
• Defines and rationalizes user personas.
• Produces market/sector white papers.
• Consultation on Portfolio Planning
• Provides input into portfolio business plans, roadmaps, strategies, metrics, and progress reports and reviews.
• Reviews.

Qualifications

• Minimum Required:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 2 to 4 years of experience in product, project, or program management
• 2 to 4 years of experience supporting online/database services, preferably for libraries or adjacent organizations (publishers, aggregators, cultural heritage institutions)

• Desired but not required:
• Master’s in library & information science, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 2 to 4 years of experience in library services or library management systems
• Working knowledge of linked data / semantic web concepts and entity-based data models (e.g., BIBFRAME, IFLA LRM)
• Experience leading cross-functional workgroups
• Knowledge of OCLC products and services

Canvass

Normal office environment. ADA/EAA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.