Senior/Lead Technical Product Manager, Data Science and Platforms (remote/flexible schedule):
CivicScience

1576597985
CivicScience
Raleigh North Carolina
Biotech
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Description
Every day, CivicScience gathers opinions from millions of consumers on thousands of topics that provide high-velocity insights to leading brands such as Apple, Microsoft, Bank of America, and T-Mobile. If there's a question critical to the marketing strategy of the Global 2000, it's likely that CivicScience has the data (examples ).

We've just raised a fresh round of capital from to use ethically sourced data to help brands and publishers accelerate their businesses.

The technical product manager will own product strategy and delivery for CivicScience's core data and services infrastructure that underlies all of the company's insights and activation products.. This includes application services, data pipelines, our proprietary Cascabel data platform, data warehousing, and upcoming machine-learning ops platforms. The product manager also will partner with the data science team on their product development activities.

Successful candidates will have experience building marketing, analytics or other B2B SaaS products, with a focus on the data and back-end service components of these platforms. They should be product athletes with enough technical fluency to credibly engage developers and data scientists as well as have experience collaborating with geographically distributed Agile teams. As this is a technical product management role, prior experience as an engineer or data scientist would be a strong plus.

This position can be based in New York City or Pittsburgh with periodic in-office work or remote anywhere in the US with quarterly trips for all-company meetings. We also are open to schedule flexibility such as four-day weeks and part-time for candidates seeking non-traditional arrangements.

You will:
  • Own product strategy, roadmaps, and delivery for CivicScience's data and application services that underlie all of the company's products.
  • Partner with the data science team on productizing machine learning models and advanced analyses and visualizations into our insights platform.
  • Deeply understand the customers' problem set, business drivers, and journey interacting with our products.
  • Use Agile processes to collaborate with Engineering and Data Science to execute on your roadmap while harnessing the power of emerging technologies.
  • Stay current on emerging technologies and cloud platform services in data, machine learning, and service architectures for consideration and possible inclusion in product strategy.
  • Communicate and evangelize the product vision and progress throughout CivicScience from C-level stakeholders on down, as well as participate in customer visits and industry events.
  • Perform build/buy analyses on non-strategic technologies to help us to concentrate development resources on potentially differentiating products.
  • Partner with company leaders to align business and product strategy so our roadmaps support CivicScience's growth and financial objectives.
  • Gather intelligence on our category and established/emerging competitors and incorporate into product strategy where appropriate.
Desired skills/experience:
  • 5+ years in B2B software/SaaS product management with exposure to the full lifecycle from roadmap to concept to launch and beyond. Prefer 2+ years building martech, adtech, or data SaaS products.
  • Sufficient technical literacy to both understand the underpinnings of products to make key decisions as well as effectively communicate with engineers and data scientists. Basic technical aptitude in data and application technologies - you have some hands-on experience in the space in addition to being able to talk about it. Prior software engineering background not required, but desirable.
  • Moderate data wrangling skills and excellent data sense.. SQL + basic proficiency in another language suitable for data manipulation, transformation, and analysis such as Python, R, or Scala. Prior work with cloud-based databases such as Snowflake and BigQuery as well as reporting platforms such as Domo or Looker.
  • Builder mentality -- you think in terms of customer problems and technology solutions, and have demonstrated success in creating business-focused products.
  • Experience instrumenting all stages of product development with metrics.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills at the senior leadership level.
  • Positive, people-oriented, and energetic attitude.
  • Support our culture by being engaged, intellectually curious, and motivated to solve complex problems.
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