Responsibilities Include:

• Design and oversee data pipelines for a specific application area.
• Build and maintain roadmaps with clear milestones for your application area. 
• Analyse data outputs from specific applications and implement quality controls for accuracy.
• Monitor and track performance of your applications.
• Investigate with Engineering to identify root causes for data quality escapes  
• Author user stories, acceptance criteria, and software requirements documentation.
• Maintain a prioritized backlog that aligns with available engineering capacity and maps to an overall solution roadmap.
• Identify and mitigate blockers, risks, issues, and dependencies that may impact project delivery and escalate to the appropriate stakeholders.
• Manage scope and drive trade-off decisions.
• Coordinate the creation of release management documentation, follow change management procedures, and review post-deployment KPIs
• Serve as a high-availability resource for answering questions posed by engineers, Data Scientists, and key stakeholders.
• Lead the planning and execution of projects from initiation to closure, ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of Nielsen’s Television products and their short and long term product strategy.
• Set and track ROI goals for each product, ensuring they deliver value and align with broader business objectives

Minimum Qualifications/ Requirements:

• A bachelor's or master's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field is often preferred.
• 5-8 years experience in product management or a similar discipline.
  Exposure with Data product/pipelines or data engineering tools.
• Extensive experience practicing, applying, and coaching others on Agile development principles.
• Strong technical aptitude and ability to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical teams.
• Demonstrated experience in managing the full product lifecycle from discovery through delivery and iteration
• Experience with managing the product life cycle of data-intensive products  with  understanding  of technical and data flow/delivery process
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills along with the ability to present effectively to upper management. Communicate product status, risks, and tradeoffs to leadership and stakeholders
• Experience with Atlassian Jira and Confluence tools.
• Experience with backend processing systems. 
• Experience in serving multiple products with a single system and scrum team.

Additional Preferred Qualifications: 

• Additional certifications in Product Management, Agile methodologies, or  related areas can be advantageous.
• Prior experience in Audience Measurement / Media industry is a plus.  
• Strong time management skills.
• Familiarity with Big Data, cloud product architecture, and general software engineering practices preferred.
• Familiarity with statistical modeling /machine learning techniques preferred.

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