Digital Product Manager at The E.W. Scripps Company in Chicago, Illinois

Job Description:

At Scripps, we empower our digital product teams to solve hard consumer and business problems in ways our customers love.   They are leaders in building the best news and entertainment products across OTT and Broadcast, working independently with passionate designers and engineers.  You are a critical thinker, organizer, and detail-oriented manager that can see the larger picture by connecting the dots, meeting deadlines, and keeping team members focused on project priorities. Most importantly, you take pride in building engaging, enjoyable, exciting apps and products that delight and meaningfully contribute to consumers lives across a quickly changing world of mobile and television viewing. 

The Digital Product Manager regularly supervises SDLC teams working closely with key divisions such as DevOps, Research, Marketing, Legal and other critical departments relevant to building best-in-class web, apps, and IP delivered news and entertainment products. You have the passion and drive to see experiences from a customer point-of-view, to push groups to attain their best, absorb strategic priorities, map them out in clear concise methods, and ensure they are followed through with exceptional execution. You have the experience to seek and review data and materialize that into ongoing improvements and objectives, ensuring teams are aligned and motivated to increase product growth and obtain milestones and strategic goals. The manager reviews industry trends and the competitive landscape and contributes insights. The product manager collaborates closely with product designers and engineers on challenges, blockers, or resource constraints to illuminate effective solutions, and then work together to deliver those solutions to market

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Act as a product lead across multiple areas of development, execution, and maintenance for Scripps Networks digital products which will include Owned and Operated applications, IP delivered services, websites, and more.




• Independently manage a variety of product needs associated to digital platforms at varying scale including mobile stores, connected TVs, streaming devices, AVOD and SVOD services, FAST channels and more. 




• Manage roadmaps, requirement documents, design assets and more, collaborating with devops and internal Scripps teams to successfully meet shipping deadlines and goals. 




• Work closely with the Head of Product to define product development frameworks, product strategy, resource management, and meet common SDLC challenges.




• Identify and seek input from team members on product features and enhancements.  Manage their lifecycle from idea conception to post-launch monitoring and improvements.




• Work closely with the business stakeholders, product designers, user experience and technology teams to define detailed key product requirements




• Define and write product requirement documents for use by Development Teams & QA




• Troubleshoot and problem solve defects, bugs, issues, blockers with development and department resources




• Work with stakeholders to ensure product definition and product life-cycle roadmap support critical business drivers (i.e., revenue, audience, cost savings, strategic value)




• Partner closely with peer organizations, sales, marketing, and DevOps to evolve platforms, processes, best practices to achieve goals and meet deadlines. 

WHAT YOU'LL BRING:

Education & Experience/Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience




• 3-5 years working on technology-powered products as either a product manager, product designer, engineer, data analyst, data scientist, or program manager with a technical background




• Familiarity with web, mobile, and CTV development

Skills & Abilities

• Understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery




• Ability to learn multiple functional areas of business – engineering, design, finance, sales, or marketing




• Demonstrated ability to figure out solutions to hard problems with many constraints, using sound judgement to assess risks, and to lay out your argument in a well-structured, data-informed, written narrative




• Proven ability to engage with engineers, designers, and company leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship




• Experience with a programming language is desirable but not required




• Experience in general SDLC management software such as Confluence or Asana

Will consider remote work beyond our offices in Atlanta, Cincinnati and Chicago for the right candidate.

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HOW WE KEEP YOU SAFE:

Consistent with our commitment to maintain a safe workplace free of known hazards, all employees and visitors are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. We also may require staying up to date on booster shots in the future based on Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and manufacturer recommendations. If you are hired, we will require you to verify that you are fully COVID-19 vaccinated by your start date, unless approved for a medical or religious exemption by Scripps in writing or any other exemptions available under applicable law. This requirement currently excludes positions located in Florida, Montana, and Tennessee due to state law; however we are monitoring developments related to OSHA requirements which may supersede state law in the future.

SCRIPPS' COMMITMENT TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION:
At Scripps, we are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture that reflects the communities we serve. We are intentional about creating an environment where employees, our audiences and other stakeholders feel valued and inspired to reach their full potential and make authentic connections. We foster a workplace culture that embraces each person’s diversity, including the extent to which they are similar or different. Scripps leaders believe that an equitable and inclusive culture is not only the right thing to do, it is a business imperative. Read more about our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion at scripps.com.

ABOUT SCRIPPS:

The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) is a diversified media company focused on creating a better-informed world. As the nation’s fourth-largest local TV broadcaster, Scripps serves communities with quality, objective local journalism and operates a portfolio of 61 stations in 41 markets. The Scripps Networks reach nearly every American through the national news outlets Court TV and Newsy and popular entertainment brands ION, Bounce, Grit, Laff and Court TV Mystery. Scripps is the nation’s largest holder of broadcast spectrum. Scripps runs an award-winning investigative reporting newsroom in Washington, D.C., and is the longtime steward of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Founded in 1878, Scripps has held for decades to the motto, “Give light and the people will find their own way.”

As an equal employment opportunity employer, The E.W. Scripps Company and its affiliates do not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender, color, religion, age, genetic information, medical condition, disability, marital status, citizenship or national origin, and military membership or veteran status, or on any other basis which would be in violation of any applicable federal, state or local law. Furthermore, the company will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship for the company.