What are the responsibilities and job description for the Group Product Manager position at Frequence?
About Frequence
We’re the ones with big ideas, bold vision, and Silicon Valley-casual vibes who are passionate about solving real problems for our clients.
Frequence’s powerful software makes it easy for media companies to stay competitive in the digital advertising space. We empower experts in sales and ad design with a comprehensive platform that allows them to efficiently deliver what would otherwise be complex advertising strategies.
Unlike other workflow software, Frequence is the most complete system on the market, connecting all aspects of digital advertising—sales, operations, and reporting—from beginning to end. We create smart, focused campaigns based on performance data from thousands of local and national media campaigns to level the playing field and make programmatic ad buying possible for smaller local businesses.
The Opportunity:
As a Group Product Manager, you’ll be a “player/coach” balancing managing and inspiring a small team of product managers and building our next big things in an agile and fast-paced environment.
You will build a strategy, develop your area’s product roadmap, and partner closely with executives, users and engineering to enhance our current offering and deliver new services. You will be entrusted not only with traditional product development, but also with driving alignment and results across cross-functional teams.
We have a distributed engineering and product team so you must be adept at working with remote teams in a flexible environment with strong communication skills. You will help plan and execute training for support, enablement for sales, and marketing for the features you deliver. You will understand customer needs, prioritize, and deliver products that will create the most impact for our Partners, Advertisers, and Frequence internal customers. You will be constantly juggling multiple projects and priorities. You will act as a key product and technology evangelist and authority on Frequence platform and APIs, including creating detailed technical documentation and providing training on both current product functionality and new product enhancements.
What You Will Do:
- Develop a product vision for your area
- Work with stakeholders to turn your vision into a practical and high impact roadmap
- Coordinate the execution of your roadmap with your team of product managers and others in a cross-functional environment
- Lead and manage a team of product managers
- Ownership: Own the complete Product Lifecycle: Requirement gathering, writing user stories, managing Engineering priorities, and approving functional deliverables
- Execution: Execute Product KPIs & Company goals
- Ideation: Gather and promote the most relevant ideas and most pressing problems to solve into features
- Features: Define the “what” with user stories and requirements
- Go-to-market: Work with cross-functional teams to deliver a complete customer experience
- 8 years of experience in digital ad tech, mobile, analytics, or software product management
- 3 years management experience
- A strong planner and staying organized is critical to the role
- Analytical ability and an excellent problem solver with a data-driven approach to decision-making
- Must have experience with key product management functions, including writing requirements/user stories, and creating mocks/wireframes, market research, competitive analysis, product planning, and reporting
- Solid understanding of application architectures, databases, SQL, JSON, APIs, etc.
- Must have experience working with engineering teams using Agile/Scrum software development along with experience working with partners in UX/Product Design, Operations, Marketing, Sales, and Data functions
- Experience in defining and developing products to meet business requirements from inception to launch
- Experience working with multidisciplinary teams, external partners/clients, and managing stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills - able to share information at the right level clearly and succinctly
- Excellent leadership skills - ability to lead with authority and drive consensus across teams
Nice to Have:
- Industry experience in Advertising/Marketing
- Exposure to Rest APIs
- Engineering/CS background preferred
Why Frequence?
Frequence is a Top Workplace! Our people-first culture and distinctive mission set us apart from others in the industry. As our company grows, so does our need to add sharp, ambitious, and talented people to our team. We're approachable, inclusive, and encourage open dialogue within our community. This is a place where your voice matters.
Want proof that we love our people? Frequence is proud to be Certified as a Great Place to Work. We are also honored to be recognized by Bay Area News Group as a Top Workplaces Company for 2020 & 2021. And, Frequence ranked as one of the USA's fastest-growing private companies by Inc. Magazine. Join us and let’s see what we can build together.
Ways we show our love (some call them benefits):
- Competitive salary and bonuses
- Stock options at a mid-stage startup, 401K
- Health, dental and vision insurance coverage
- Generous PTO
Frequence, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. At Frequence, Inc. we are deliberately trying to create a safe space for people of all races, genders, ages, backgrounds, and orientations. It is the policy of Frequence, Inc. to provide equal employment opportunity to all persons, regardless of age, race, religion, color, national origin, sex, political affiliations, marital status, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, age, sexual orientation, membership or non-membership in an employee organization, or on the basis of personal favoritism or other non-merit factors, except where otherwise provided by law.