Vice President, Product Management

at comScore in Springfield, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Vice President, Product Management

The Vice President, Product Management, position is a highly visible role with the Comscore Digital product team. You will be responsible for leading initiatives for various products within the Comscore Digital product portfolio. You will manage product lifecycles and delivery from ideation to launch, justify new product development or investments in existing products, determine and document product requirements, and support the sales and product service teams.

You will have the opportunity to lead transformational changes to the Digital product portfolio with the focus of client adoption and revenue growth as main success criteria. You will develop a keen understanding of Comscore’s positioning in the marketplace and strategically develop new products to increase client and industry penetration. You will seek to continuously improve Comscore’s position and recognition as the preeminent leader in its market space.

You must embody the ability to set product vision, prioritize projects, create cohesive roadmaps, and communicate effectively across functional teams with the goal of enhancing Comscore’s offerings to meet market demand. Further, you must be able to translate business objectives into developmental requirements, using Agile principles and tools. You will be a cross-functional leader within Comscore, as well as an inspirational manager to your own lean product management team.

Key Abilities and Skills:

- Demonstrated success in product development using design thinking and a customer-centric approach

- Proven ability to problem solve and innovate in a cross-functional team environment to deliver solutions that delight clients

- Experience partnering with Engineering to deliver data-driven solutions that can scale and are cost-effective to operate

- Ability to analyze market and competitive landscape to identify product features to build into our offerings

- Demonstrated approach to prioritizing emerging technical advances and translating them to commercial revenue growth opportunities and product development requirements

- Proven ability to analyze data and create impactful industry-facing narratives in conjunction with Product Marketing, and potentially with industry leaders

- Ability to manage and inspire high performing teams

Core Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Marketing, Business, or related field

- Master’s in engineering or related field or MBA preferred

- 10+ years Product Management experience

- Polished communication and presentation skills

- Driven self-starter with an appetite for new challenges and comfort with complex technical and methodological challenges

- Proven leadership ability and evidence of positively influencing cross-functional teams

- Strong analytical skills, including SQL query experience a plus

- Ability to transform product vision into execution through Agile development practices

- Understanding of market research and its application to media planning

- Prior experience in digital advertising (either buy side or sell side) or prior experience in digital audience measurement is highly recommended.

About Comscore

At Comscore, we’re pioneering the future of cross-platform media measurement, arming organizations with the insights they need to make decisions with confidence. Central to this aim are our people who work together to simplify the complex on behalf of our clients & partners. Though our roles and skills are varied, we’re united by our commitment to five underlying values: Integrity, Velocity, Accountability, Teamwork, and Servant Leadership. If you’re motivated by big challenges and interested in helping some of the largest and most important media properties and brands navigate the future of media, we’d love to hear from you.

Comscore (NASDAQ: SCOR) is a trusted partner for planning, transacting and evaluating media across platforms. With a data footprint that combines digital, linear TV, over-the-top and theatrical viewership intelligence with advanced audience insights, Comscore allows media buyers and sellers to quantify their multiscreen behavior and make business decisions with confidence. A proven leader in measuring digital and set-top box audiences and advertising at scale, Comscore is the industry’s emerging, third-party source for reliable and comprehensive cross-platform measurement. To learn more about Comscore, please visit Comscore.com.

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