Director, Product

Publicis Media Exchange (PMX) is the global media platform for Publicis Groupe [Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40]. PMX is an omnichannel activation powerhouse that drives smart application of investment through leveraging scale, marketplace innovation, deeper partnerships and knowledge. PMX is at the forefront of the converging marketplace building data-informed, tech-enabled media to help marketers connect with consumers in a measurable way.

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The PMX Investment Practice is developing solutions to support the business needs. The Director of Product will oversee and work on a wide range of activities across the product lifecycle from inception to manage in market. This person will also help drive the vision, strategy, and evolution of the solutions, with a particular emphasis on process automation. This person must be proactive in anticipating and prioritizing the business needs of the team and must possess superb time management skills, a productive approach toward work and a strong sense of urgency. They should have excellent relationship building and collaboration skills, strong communication, project and product management and analytical skills.

This is a hybrid role, requiring three days in-office each week. If you are contacted for an interview, your recruiter will discuss specifics with you, inclusive of any necessary reasonable accommodations.

Your Impact:

• Engage with end-users, stakeholders, and engineers to gather requirements and document business needs
• Manage the development of detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and supporting documentation required to translate business needs into product features with an emphasis on developing a dashboard that brings in data sets from disparate platforms
• Understand business challenges and translates these into prioritized solutions including advanced Excel skills to automate processes
• Prototype potential solutions to validate concept and hypothesis
• Develops project schedules and tracks progress to ensure on time delivery of product releases and key business objectives
• Partner with UI/UX and Engineering teams to improve product usability and experience
• Track's status of major bugs/data issues, and provides guidance/step in when needed to help with blocking issues
• QA new features and optimizations to inform product sign off
• Coordinate training and continual upskilling in process automation
• Ability to multi-task and manage multiple workstreams
• Critical/analytical thinking and problem solving
• Thrives in an ambiguous and fast-paced environment
• Excellent organization and communication skills
• High energy level, strong team player and good work ethic

• 5 years of product-related experience
• Knowledge of Print, Local Video & Audio, OOH and National Audio Media Investment preferred
• Experience gathering and documenting business and functional requirements in support of technical product development
• Practical experience in scrum-based agile development methodology
• Experience working with JIRA, or equivalent
• Hands-on analytics-based programming experience in SQL
• Advanced Excel Proficiency (macro development)
• Comfortable working in an environment where priorities may shift due to business, product, or user needs.
• Thrives on brainstorming and building innovative solutions that consistently challenges the status quo
• Exceptional organizational and communication skills, both in person and written
• Bachelor's degree preferred

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Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

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