Senior Technical Product Manager

Company Description
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Company Name: Nielsen
Job Description
At Nielsen, we believe that career growth is a partnership. You ultimately own, fuel and set the journey. By joining our team of nearly 14,000 associates, you will become part of a community that will help you to succeed. We champion you because when you succeed, we do too. Embark on a new initiative, explore a fresh approach, and take license to think big, so we can all continuously improve. We enable your best to power our future. 
An ideal candidate will have 5-7 years of Technical Product management experience
Responsibilities

• • Drive vision and roadmap of Gracenote’s data delivery platform that delivers millions of pieces of TV Entertainment data to clients and partners daily. This data powers the TV entertainment solutions for the top cable, OTT, CE, and digital clients worldwide used by
  • hundreds of millions of consumers.
  • Partner and collaborate with engineering leaders and other internal stakeholders to ensure strong execution in a fast-moving environment
  • Drive client/partner interactions to understand business problems associated with delivering and ingesting TV entertainment data into their backend solutions. Meld that into a clear product vision and roadmap that delivers a world-class data delivery
  • platform.
  • Become the SME to identify scalable solutions to deliver new products / enhance existing products that allow clients to easily integrate Gracenote metadata into their systems.
  • Work closely with UX and engineering to deliver not only the platform but also thecritical tools for configuration and analytics to make the platform an overall success.

Desired Skills & Experience

• • Bachelor’s degree with a technical focus or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of Product Management or Engineering experience, ideally at platform-side companies
  • Data-driven with an analytical mindset and the ability to work your way through ambiguous situations
  • Strong conceptual understanding of building scalable data platforms
  • Experience in writing SQL to perform data analysis
  • Experience working with XML, JSON & REST APIs
  • Experience with scripting languages - Python, JavaScript, etc
  • Self-starter that can work collaboratively in a cross-functional team environment across multiple time zones
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively communicate delivery strategy, new enhancements, and best practices around data delivery to technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• • Experience in OTT, TV broadcast, or supporting customers who develop products for digital content consumption.
  • Development experience with Gracenote, ROVI, RedBee, or other structured entertainment databases.
  • Demonstrated success in building B2B products, iterating based on customer feedback, and scaling them to global markets.

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