Senior Product Manager, 1

Job Title

Senior Product Manager, 1

Job Description

Senior Product Manager 1 - Content Licensing & PCFY
India Product & Technology

About People Inc.
People Inc. (formerly Dotdash Meredith) is the largest digital and print publisher in America. More
than 175 million people trust us each month to help them find inspiration, make decisions, and take
action. People Inc.’s more than 40 iconic brands include PEOPLE, Food & Wine, Travel + Leisure,
Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, Allrecipes, REAL SIMPLE, Investopedia, and Southern Living.
People Inc. is based in New York City and is an operating business of IAC (NASDAQ: IAC).

Our Core Values:

• Champion Accountability
• Respect
• Expect Integrity
• Act Now, Not Later
• Make it Matter

Job Summary:
People Inc. seeks a Product Manager who will help us grow audiences for our world-class content.
You’ll focus on initiatives within the Content Licensing team to maintain and evolve a set of
existing applications for our Content Licensing business, and improve how audiences engage with
this content via our partners. You will also be involved in the redesign of the complete
PromoCodesForYou site.

The Product Manager will lead the vision, strategy, roadmap, and implementation for integrations
with many partners, developing best practices and multi-platform requirements, and managing a
high-quality user experience via this channel of our business. Our ideal candidate has experience
in news and media and a familiarity with a wide range of technologies and concepts related to
digital publishing.

The person in this role will balance the needs of partners, users, and the business, identifying
product opportunities, functional requirements, and defining a long-term vision to optimize how we
reach new audiences and the technologies necessary to ensure the best content experiences
across Content Licensing clients.

Primary responsibilities:
● Product Vision: Work with technical leaders and stakeholders to build a roadmap for
the features and capabilities of our content distribution operation. Examples might
include: improving the reliability of Content Licensing delivery tools and APIs,
enhancing tools to be more self-service for users, and building new capabilities for
different potential licensing partners.
● Planning and Alignment: Work with product and technical owners across the
organization to define a cohesive, living roadmap for the features and capabilities of
the content licensing platform. Identify the feedback loops and cross-team
dependencies required to bring innovations to market.
● Driving Results: Ruthlessly prioritize and drive initiatives across multiple business and
stakeholder requests, acting as the product SME from a functional perspective,
showcasing, championing, and finding ways to constantly innovate and deliver
maximum value to users, partners, and the business.
● Technical Grasp: Understand internal and vendor APIs, their usage, and their impact
on how business partners access our content. Should be comfortable with JSON, XML
etc.
● Product Development: Work with cross-functional, agile teams to develop, launch,
optimize, and maintain/retire features in a fast-paced environment; make the call on
desired product functionality and make real-time decisions to ensure that we are on
track to meet business goals.

Required Skills
Mandatory Skills:
● “Platform thinking” is part of your DNA. You naturally build for scale and reuse, always
thinking ahead to the longer-term.
● You possess an innate desire to collect, synthesize, and analyze data to inform your
decision-making.
● You are familiar with the varied ways people discover and consume digital content
and data, and apply that knowledge to building new platform capabilities.
● 5+ years of hands-on product management—day-to-day product ownership and
ideation. Previous experience working in digital publishing preferred.
● You’re excellent at communicating and collaborating with a wide range of teams and
stakeholders to build great products.
● You should be fluent in technical concepts and jargon such that you can actively
participate in highly technical conversations with engineering teams.
● You’re able to juggle the needs of multiple stakeholder groups and develop strategic
product plans for each of them.
● You have a passion for figuring out user problems and pain points.
● You’re capable of developing a big-picture product strategy for meeting user needs,
selling it, and then working out the details to get the plan over the finish line.
● You’re fluent in Agile principles and methodology.

Good to Have:
Prior experience with a digital publishing industry.

What will you learn on this job?
You will work closely with brand leaders, partners, users, other product managers and
drive, execute product strategy for the largest digital publisher company in the US.

Designation: Senior Product Manager 1
Working Hours: 1:00PM to 10:00PM
Location: Ecoworld, Bengaluru, Karnataka

It is the policy of People Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, the Company will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.

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