About VivaKi:
VivaKi is the strategic entity created by Publicis Groupe to leverage the combined scale of its media and digital operations, which represent nearly US $60 billion in global adspend and influence.? VivaKi aggregates the marketplace influence of five autonomous brands, including two global media agencies: Starcom MediaVest Group and ZenithOptimedia; two leading digital marketing agencies: Digitas and Razorfish; and a premiere futures practice: Denuo.? On behalf of its agency brands and their clients, VivaKi faces the market to help identify and build technology, message distribution, audience aggregation and content solutions for the future.? Sitting at the core of VivaKi is the VivaKi Nerve Center, which serves as a think tank, R&D center and testing ground to activate new pathways for clients to connect with consumers in an increasingly digital world.? VivaKi also includes a Talent & Transformation Practice, which leverages the scale of the VivaKi brands to develop and deliver tools and approaches designed to attract, develop, train, motivate and reward the world's best people.
Description:
The Sr.? Product Manager will be responsible for product leadership and direction within the VivaKi Nerve Center (VNC).? This role will drive and/?or participate in all aspects of the software development lifecycle, from strategy definition and architecture through deployment and support.
Responsibilities:
-Understand customer and prospect challenges and translate these into prioritized, product oriented solutions
-Create technical functional specifications from product and business requirements
-Drive the product development schedule from design to release
-Control release dates through prioritization and scope control
-Ensure that delivered work matches expectations of customers, both internal and external
-Develop and maintain product roadmap
-Work with other VNC product managers to ensure product integration
-Develop product demos, technical collateral and marketing materials as needed
Minimum Qualifications:
-7+? years product management experience in the software /?digital marketing industry
-Bachelor’s degree in related field
-Product management experience with analytic or reporting type products
-Strong working (technical preferred) understanding of database, architecture, tools and technologies and their use
-Must be comfortable working closely with customers, prospects, program managers and marketing communications to gather requirements, define release priorities and position the product
-Significant experience managing projects within an agile framework
-Strong communication skills that bridge business, advertising, and technology arenas
-Demonstrated ability to garner the respect of team members while maintaining accountability
-Ability to apply new or existing problem solving methods to new situations
