This role requires a skilled, energetic, and outgoing Technical Product Manager to take responsibility for coordinating development and other activities within a fast-paced digital media environment. Working on strategically important projects with high-profile internal and external brands (including ePlayer, Goal, Sporting News, Soccerway, Mackolik, DAZN, NBA and CONMEBOL), you will be passionate about enabling teams to deliver commercially-focused products within the sports industry. The main areas of focus will be commercial and data products, being part of the team responsible for product development to drive monetization and activation of user data across Perform Media's properties.

Delivery focused and prepared to roll your sleeves up, you will proactively create user stories and help shape our data driven projects to enable optimal use of our data insights.

HERE'S YOUR ROLE BROKEN DOWN (NOT ALL OF IT, JUST THE MOST IMPORTANT STUFF!)

Create user stories and use cases that include appropriate level of technical requirements and an understanding of the stakeholder's objective. Liaise with other relevant product teams to raise user stories and use cases
Capture requirements from stakeholders across the product, ad ops, commercial, BI and data science teams, including appropriate technical detail, and business goals
Understand the data and tech culture of the business, catch up on the latest technologies that the data engineering team is using, understand its advantages and shortcomings
Develop and maintain core project documentation from inception, working with delivery stakeholders and project managers to estimate development effort and dependencies to inform timescales and budgets
Coordinate internal communication, training briefings and supporting (handover) documentation ahead of product launches
Deliver action-focused post-project reviews to improve future projects

YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE THESE ESSENTIALS TO DO YOUR JOB WELL...

Data driven organisation experience, eg online platforms, social media, Ad Tech
Proven experience working in projects that require the use of big data infrastructure. Experience in Cloudera, Oozieand Spark
Use of Data Science/BI/Analytics tools/languages such as Power BI, Google Data Studios, Python, Scala
Demonstrable experience of delivering products and services projects preferably within an Agile/Scrum (experience of other methodologies beneficial)
Proven track record of delivering complex projects on time, on budget and to agreed quality
Proactive, committed and delivery-focused
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
A commitment to personal and professional development
Professional project management qualification or equivalent experience.

DO YOU HAVE THESE DESIRABLES?

Basic SQL knowledge
Experience of JIRA and/or other project management support tools
Working experience of requirements capture/modelling methods such as User Stories or Use Cases and writing test scripts
Previous experience in working with ad tech related projects or previous experience working with ad funded web, app or OTT products
An interest in sports or digital sports publishing
An understanding of web/mobile technologies and trends
Understanding and experience of technical delivery processes and the ability to efficiently communicate requirements and negotiate priorities with technical teams
Excellent report writing and presentation skills
Experience using a range of digital communication tools (egSkype, Slack) to work with distributed teams

THESE ARE THE PERFORM COMPETENCIES YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED IN YOUR ROLE....

Planning & Organisation - Ability to set priorities, goals and time tables to achieve maximum productivity
Drive & Energy - Self-motivated and driven to succeed, focused on results and passionate about the job.
Creativity & Innovation - Ability to generate and translate an idea into a product or service that creates value for business
Teamwork & Collaboration - Working collaboratively with a group of people in order to accomplish a task or achieve a goal.
Communicating with impact - Ability to present information to a high standard using a variety of written, verbal, diagrammed and presentation techniques.
Flexibility & Adaptability - Rapidly adapts to new information, changing conditions or unexpected obstacles.
Customer Orientation - Building and maintaining external and internal customer satisfaction
Commercial Awareness - Uses understanding of Performs broader capability to deliver effectively