Product Owner

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As the Product Owner for Enterprise Product, you will lead the implementation of strategic data-driven initiatives, managing high-profile projects from concept to delivery. Your experience managing the full product life cycle will be key as you collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders across upstream/downstream systems, Data Warehouses, data backbones, and data lakes, ensuring data validation, consistency, and integrity at every stage.

In this role, you will act as a strategic partner to business stakeholders, addressing high-impact analytical challenges with innovative, data-driven solutions. You will translate functional and non-functional requirements into user stories and guide the team through planning, execution, and retrospective cycles to maximize creativity and efficiency in alignment with the product roadmap.

Key responsibilities include:

As the Product Owner for Enterprise Product, you will be responsible for implementing strategic data-driven initiatives

Manage high-profile projects and deliveries

Experience in managing the end-to-end life cycle of a product

Work with respective stakeholders responsible for upstream/downstream systems, Data Warehouse, data backbone, and data lake systems, ensuring validation of relevant data sources, consistency, and data integrity are in place

Be a strategic partner and work with business stakeholders to define high-impact analytical problems and find innovative ways to solve problems with data

Break down functional and non-functional requirements into user stories, and present them to the team in planning sessions

Facilitate sprint planning, sprint demo, and retrospective meetings with product and engineering teams to increase creativity while improving efficiency, based on the priorities on our product roadmap

Ensure appropriate controls and monitoring are in place to enable accurate reporting of status across the portfolio, including timelines, risks, and issues

Build and support internal and external communication plans, status reports, analyses, and presentations

Develop testing, validation, and approval process for systems that involve all data-driven lifecycle components

Ensure the integrity of all reports, data models, and data tables through appropriate maintenance and documentation of data sources, definitions, and calculations used for metrics, KPI’s

Perform ad hoc analysis and reports as determined by the needs of the business

5 years of experience with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and present the results with attention to detail and accuracy

Minimum 2 years of product management experience in media, gathering client requirements, writing product and/or technical specifications, working with development teams, and managing product roadmaps as well as launches

Analytical skills to present to create analyses that tell a “story” focused on insights and data

Understanding and ability to deliver trend and data analytics, ability to provide meaningful analysis

Ability to gather and comprehend requirements and challenges across all levels of the business which can be assisted by data analytics

Ability to convey complex technical issues internally to both technical and non-technical individuals

Experience with AWS, Snowflake SQL, and Tableau

Experience with Jira or similar project management tool

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree in data analytics, business, statistics, mathematics, computer science, or a related field or equivalent work experience

3 years of relevant experience in media, ideally with a background in Research Product development and working with clients

At least 2 years of direct client engagement experience

Experience with Agile methodology

Experience working with Jira, writing detailed user stories and supporting acceptance criteria

Hands-on experience with data extraction, manipulation, and analyses; including SQL stored procedures, complex joins, creation of views, and database scripting

Experience with systems integration, data governance, and security compliance

Fully Remote: This position has been designated as fully remote, meaning that the position is expected to contribute from a non-NBCUniversal worksite, most commonly an employee’s residence.

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Learn more about the benefits offered by NBCUniversal by visiting the Benefits page (https://www.nbcunicareers.com/benefits)  of the Careers website. Salary range: $100,000 – $130,000 (bonus eligible)

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision.

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