Sr Manager, Digital Product Manager
NBC Universal
Universal Orlando Resort believes in-person collaboration is key to our success. Many of our Team Members work in a hybrid capacity, contributing from the workplace a minimum of three days per week. There are also roles that require being on-site full time. Limited remote opportunities may be available within specific departments. You’ll learn more about this during the recruitment process.
JOB SUMMARY:
The Digital and Experience Development team is focused on driving product strategies to evolve and enhance the Guest experience across Universal Parks & Resorts. As a Product Manager, the primary function of this role will be to manage new capabilities across the entire product lifecycle, from product strategy, planning, definition, delivery, and implementation.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
Leadership
+ Encourage an innovative culture that fosters "outside the box" thinking
+ Drive the vision of the team in support of business needs
+ Understand and track key trends and innovations, continuously looking for opportunitites to advance the product portfolio
+ Act as product expert both internally and externally, providing learning opportunities to other Team Members and attending external industry events
+ Provide leadership, management, and coaching
+ Establish standards and best practices to maximize team performance and company advancement
+ Develop growth plans and foster individual and professional growth
+ Keep key stakeholders updated on product roadmap developments and advancements
+ Manage issues, risks, and escalations as needed to support the product team
+ Work closely with IT and other internal organizations to ensure alignment
+ Contribute to the success of the larger team by driving joint collaboration, visioning, and planning
+ Provide other Team Members with support in continued growth opportunities through shared product experiences
+ Participate and drive formal mentorship opportunities to help other Team Members improve their product skills
Product Planning
+ Establish the product roadmap and coordinate with key partners to manage product delivery and implementation timelines
+ Partner with other Digital Product Managers to ensure product dependencies and integration points are considered during roadmap and release planning
+ Establish product backlog priorities for release and sprint planning, considering new capabilities, minor enhancements, and defect fixes
Product Strategy
+ Proactively evaluate Guest experience strengths and pain points from all perspectives, to identify opportunities for new and/or improved experience delivery capabilities
+ Develop and frame up product recommendations with associated cost, value and experience analysis, to gain approval and funding for development
+ Collaborate and liaise with key business partners to establish product goals and objectives
+ Ensure product alignment with the holistic experience transformation vision
Product Definition
+ Partner with the UXUI team to establish experience interactions and designs based on high level feature requirements
+ Drive detailed product Feature definition, including functional and non-functional requirements
+ Support product implementation across the domestic sites, capturing site specific functional requirements in partnership with on-site stakeholders
Product Delivery
+ Facilitate product backlog grooming with the Delivery scrum team
+ Define and document product user stories to enable technical design, development, and testing
+ Participate in scrum team Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily-stand ups, and retrospectives
Product Implementation and Support
+ Perform product validation throughout the development cycle, to ensure alignment with functional requirements.
+ Maintain close partnership with Business Transformation to ensure that product functionality aligns with Operational and Business capabilities.
+ Represent and support the product as the ongoing subject matter expert.
+ Develop an ongoing approach for measuring the success of newly implemented experience enhancements, to enable well-informed future product planning
Additional Responsibilities
+ Understand and actively participate in Environmental, Health & Safety responsibilities by following established policy, procedures, training and team member involvement activities.
+ Perform other duties as assigned.
EDUCATION:
+ Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) required - Business, Technology, Digital Marketing, or Industrial Engineering preferred;
+ Master’s degree preferred.
EXPERIENCE:
+ 9+ years in Product Management, Digital Marketing, E-Commerce, Digital Experience Design, Industrial Engineering, Technology, or related fields.
+ People Management
+ Including goal setting, escalation handling, and mentorship
+ Managing the digital experience for a consumer website and/or mobile app
+ Experience with large scale transformation initiatives
+ Demonstrated ability to define and execute strategic initiatives
+ Working in an agile technology delivery program
+ Defining a customer journey and digital product roadmap
+ Product backlog management, including Feature definition, requirements, prioritization and sprint planning
+ Close partnership with a Technology Delivery team
+ Stakeholder engagement and relationship building
+ Executive communication, with the ability to influence decision making
+ Excellent analytical, written and oral communication skills, and be able to explain complex concepts both concisely and simply;
+ or equivalent combination of education and experience
Your talent, skills and experience will be rewarded with a competitive compensation package.
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