COMPANY DESCRIPTION: 7Miles Global is a high energy, fast-paced Advertising Business Support Service for Advertisers, Ad Agencies and Production Companies. Our mission is to provide best in class customer service by partnering and developing the best talent in the Industry. We have created a collaborative work environment where our staff can thrive and grow. As subject matter experts in content, production and rights management, we offer consultative services and are developing a Content Management Platform. As a start-up company we are looking for people who love being part of the product from a successful launch and beyond. We are looking for someone with an entrepreneurial spirit to take ownership of the development and client launch. We are committed to excellence and accuracy in our work and strive for this inside and outside our company.
OBJECTIVES: To successfully manage product development and growth
- Ability to review and analyze processes in relationship to requirements
- Ability to determine and recommend improvements that need to be initiated to ensure best practices
- Ability to communicate effectively with clients, vendors, contractors, 7Miles staff and IT team to ensure requirements are properly documented and communicated so all involved work to reach successful product development
- Liaison with stake holders to provide constructive feedback to ensure targets and target dates are meet
- Assist with UI/UX strategy to insure user adaption and satisfaction
- Execute a plan for final stage development, testing and go to market
- Collaborate with CEO and COO to create and prepare a strategy for initial market launch and expansion in the industry
QUALIFICATIONS: The qualifications for the Product Manager position are:
- Minimum educational requirement: Bachelor’s degree (preferred)
- 3-5 years project and product management experience
- Experience with Content Management Systems
- Skilled in Excel, GitLab, Jira in an Agile environment
- Ability to create basic wireframes
- UX/UI experience a plus
- Clear written and verbal skills, including presentation skills
- Ability to translate Client requirements into Explicit Use Cases for execution by development team
- Strong analytic skills
- Experience in market research and analysis
- Experience in strategic, financial and pricing analysis
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to direct testing to validate requirement success in achieving software goals
- Ability to work well from home based on project time requirements
- Collaborative and positive problem-solving attitude
- Experience communicating well with off-shore programming teams
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Review current system to create and manage action plan for ongoing feature developments
- Review system with current and potential users for best practice programming, and execution
- Meet with industry leaders to build user case studies
- Review industry programs to plan and execute GO TO MARKET plan
- Oversees day-to-day project management
- Manage daily development meeting between user groups and IT teams
- Develop timelines for feature develop with COO
- Develop timelines for marketing strategy with CEO
Maintain an accurate record of work in progress during all stages of jobs - Organize and distribute job status reports each week
GROWTH PATH:
As a growing company, opportunities will be based on our overall success. We hope there will be many avenues for expanding this role within IT and/or overall company management. We are looking for a candidate that sees their future with influential game changers in the industry.