What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Product Manager position at Cox Media Group?
Job description
Cox Media Group (CMG) is currently seeking an Associate Product Manager to join our growing product team with a focus on our Mobile and Connected TV Apps. As an Associate Product Manager with CMG you will engage with stakeholders, vendors, designers, developers, project managers and product managers to execute software development projects. The resulting products will be consumed digitally via our mobile news and connected TV apps.
Primary responsibilities
- Assist current product managers on current and upcoming products
- Track and learn from metrics of success
- Keep apprised of product, category and industry trends
- Triage support issues on existing products
- Day-to-day operational responsibilities with our iOS, Android, Roku, Fire and AppleTV apps
- Attend agile sprint ceremonies
- Work with Product Manager to create PRD’s for upcoming initiatives
- Launch high quality digital products
- Provide weekly status report
- Responsibility over team presentations
- Additional duties as assigned
Basic Qualifications:
- Must have a minimum of 1-2 years of digital experience
- Experience with various product types, including web sites, video and mobile and connected TV
- Understanding of agile app development process
- A history of work that shows experience with software development
- Must have excellent conceptual, communication and organizational skills
- Understanding of consumer facing online experiences
- Understanding of technology concepts, such as XML/JSON APIs, content management systems, in order to communicate effectively with developers
- Proficiency in Power Point / Excel
- Bachelor’s degree required
Ideal candidate would also have:
- Experience working for media organizations
- Understanding of weather, elections, video and push alerts
- Experience working in an agile development process
- Background with running A/B tests
- History of user testing and product research
- Basic understanding of a digital eco-system