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About The Job

The media ecosystem is evolving and Nielsen will be evolving our strategy to develop a new product to measure linear and streaming content in a holistic, representative and comparable approach.

This is critical to help our clients evolve their business models to a streaming first world and drive appropriate content and ad pricing strategies over the next decade.

This position will be on the incubation team responsible for building our Convergent TV product. This person will contribute to the team’s overall remit in scoping market size, conducting client discovery, developing a holistic strategy, creating a test and learn approach to R&D and an agile development approach. The person will specifically focus on product needs related to ad measurement and data strategy.

The role offers exposure to a variety of internal and external stakeholders across Technology, Data Science, Research, Operations, Commercial, Legal, Product Marketing, and Privacy. An ideal candidate will be comfortable at varying levels of technical and business discussions and have the ability to drive our relationships in the media ecosystem to develop a winning strategy for ConvergentTV measurement.

Responsibilities

Founding member of incubation team that will test convergent tv vision and hypotheses, roadmap and driving execution from test and learn initiatives through to full product development

Understand and react to the changing media landscape, ensuring resilient solutions that meet client needs;

Conduct client and stakeholder discovery to solidify product specifications and marketplace needs; rapidly test and iterate and help generate an MVP.

Generate product-level business requirements, ensuring that all external and internal participants are aligned on the scope of the features being built;

Partner with broader product team to ensure data requirements and integrations,, a connected product approach and user interface strategy is in place to deliver on dependencies

Act as an evangelist for Nielsen’s Convergent

TV strategy internally and externally

Indirectly and directly manage incubation team as required including career development, creating objectives and providing feedback on performance

Support commercial and legal conversations by assisting with agreement drafting, pricing, and scoping of the measurement capabilities;

Prioritization of the product roadmap, including a clear understanding of resources and P&L impact.

Drive the projects forward in times of uncertainty; ensure direction and next steps, be able to ask leading questions and roll up the sleeves to dive into the unfamiliar.

8+ years of Ad Tech experience, with a deep understanding of the digital advertising ecosystem (buy and sell side)

5+ years of Product Management and/or Technical Product Management experience

Prior experience directly and indirectly managing people

Prior experience managing stakeholders across product, technology, data science, operations, customer success, sales, legal, privacy and finance

Experience building advertising and content measurement solutions

Prior experience building new products, executing test and learn research and adjusting product build direction due to changes in priorities and new information

Experience leading client discovery and working with clients, partners and industry bodies

Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences

Prior experience working with industry bodies and clients to on product discovery, product development and product launches

Ability to manage and prioritize multiple initiatives in a dynamically changing environment

Subject matter expert on the ad tech ecosystem including experience working with publishers, advertisers, agencies, DMPs and SSPs.

In addition they will have experience with digital ads and content collections, identity solutions, clean room architecture and cross platform measurement.

Nielsen: Enabling your best to power a better media future. Our comprehensive benefits package (including health & wellness plans, 401(k) retirement coupled with a Nielsen match, a generous paid time off policy, company provided car for those who qualify, and if eligible, a discretionary incentive/bonus) is designed to be inclusive for all employees and families, and we take pride in ensuring that employees are rewarded holistically for the role they are doing and their performance.

A reasonable estimate of salary range for a new employee to be offered this role would be $66,000 - $215,000 which would be adjusted based on each employee's geographic location. The position of each employee within a compensation range at Nielsen is dependent on several individual circumstances, such as experience, training, certifications and other business requirements/needs.

Nielsen is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.

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Estimated Salary range:

Our salary intelligence, powered by our AI algorithms, has calculated an estimated range for this position between $175,000 - $225,000 . Please note that the actual salary for this position may vary, as it is dependent on various factors including but not limited to experience, location, and market dynamics.

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