Product Manager

Product Manager

At Saatchi we believe in creating ideas that can live anywhere. And we believe that when we work as a team, nothing is impossible. We strive to bring out the best in each other and in ourselves and expect applicants to understand the value of close collaboration. We also believe that creating transformational work requires initiative, an entrepreneurial spirit and a bold commitment to achieving measurable results and business success for the Clients we service.

We operation on a hybrid work schedule out of our El Segundo and Dallas offices, in-office 4x/week, with no exceptions.

As a Product Manager on the Saatchi Platform team, you will manage some of Toyota's largest platform businesses, you will lead the highest priority projects and digital initiatives. You will orchestrate and drive client discussions, reviews, and approvals through the digital agile development process. You will craft and recommend new opportunities, offer solutions to complex problems, and help shape the direction of the client business toward growth, increased efficiency, and greater success. You will articulate digital web and product vision, steward the prioritization of a project backlog, and work closely with the strategy, analytics, UI/experience design, production, and dev teams to successfully maintain and build new digital experiences. You will instill consistency across initiatives, high levels of agile best practices, and steer teams' execution toward larger product visions and roadmaps. Finally, you will oversee Toyota's digital production budget for platform executions and help manage scope of work.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the execution of select, high-priority enhancements to the digital web and product experiences through an agile development process, including: the creation of future vision roadmaps and documentation, briefing material for execution of projects (i.e. Epics and user stories), guidance on best practices and client business context for creative execution, considerations of how best to integrate individual work with other efforts, and coordination across internal and external stakeholder groups.
• Translate product strategy into a roadmap containing well-defined and prioritized user stories and features that will realize the product vision to assist the client in achieving core business goals and long-term advantages
• Establish objective goals for the product with success and acceptance criteria using meaningful metrics, KPIs, and quantifiable business outcomes
• Serve as a voice of the customer among the cross-functional team, always understanding and representing the customer needs
• Develop solution hypotheses iteratively based on your and the team's experience and expertise, to guide product development; then validate that learning with user testing
• Be the first point of contact to identify, manage and resolve requirement questions, dependencies, issues and risks with technical partners and client
• Manage delivery and fidelity of execution from annotations translation with technical partners through to UAT of product launch
• Manage and help define the ideal architecture for content management and long-term feasible maintenance of a product after product launch
• Orchestrate internal and external discussions designed to foster collaboration across stakeholders
• Oversee and direct scope & resource planning and monitoring to execute the roadmap of projects while fulfilling client business priorities.
• Identify opportunities for internal and client-facing growth, via new project/feature ideation, crafting roadmaps cognizant of future business considerations, and presenting solutions to current or potential issues within the internal and client landscape
• Inform and enhance internal workflows to maximize team performance. Understand how the details roll up to the big picture. Forecast next steps to meet major milestones and overcome roadblocks.
• Ensure involvement of appropriate team members during each project phase. Drive team communication and foster collaboration to avoid roadblocks.
• Identify shifts in timing, deliverables, and resources while communicating to other scope managers of potential impacts. "Connect the dots" between platform initiatives and projects or efforts outside of the platform world.
• Build and maintain a trusting relationship with the client, teams, and vendors; develop influence without authority
• Inspire, lead and mentor a high-performing team to continually facilitate improvements in developing and enhancing best-in-class digital products and services

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of client facing, digital product experience with account management, project management, production, and/or product management experience in an agency, or digital product development related field. Experience with enterprise, large-scale website or platform management, application or digital product development preferred. Previous automotive or similar scale client experience a plus.
• Experience in fostering strong client relationships by proactively delivering recommendations and ideas driven by business context and creative opportunity. Demonstrate strong client service techniques, including documentation of feedback, solicitation of viewpoints, anticipation of questions or challenges.
• Proven track-record of driving digital projects from inception to successful delivery, including experience with client management, creative guidance, scheduling, budget management, and technical development best practices. Ability to drive multiple streams of work concurrently while meeting deadlines and maintaining proper documentation.
• Proven track record in effectively assessing work product environment and providing a critical eye when reviewing to elevate work, as well as honing/developing a strong agency point of view
• Experience acting as the technical expert, utilizing deep knowledge of the target software tech stack (e.g., microservices, cloud platforms, specific programming languages) to define the product strategy and roadmap. This involves translating business value into detailed, viable technical specifications, influencing architectural decisions, managing technical debt, and ensuring scalable, robust delivery across the entire development lifecycle.
• Aptitude and experience in managing cross-functional teams, with a focus on cross-dynamic communication and career development for more junior employees
• Experience and comfort with all things tech, including consumer websites, website development, user interfaces, responsive/adaptive site development, mobile apps and video game devices
• Experience working with project requirement documentations such as BRD/FRD to identify traceability from KPI to use cases defining solutions
• Experience managing requests that include integration with multiple back-end systems ex. APIs and data feeds
• Familiarity with basic web programming languages (HTML, Javascript) and web design applications. Knowledge of code development platforms, languages, content management systems (AEM or similar). Knowledge of Microsoft Office 365, Google Docs, PowerPoint, Keynote, Acrobat Professional, Smartsheet, AI tools, PM related workflow and reporting tools (ex. Jira, Confluence, Asana, etc.)

We prioritize attributes and soft skills, including:

• Maintain focus under pressure, keep a positive and collaborative yet confident demeanor and quickly facilitate others involvement when necessary
• Communicate internally and externally, across multiple levels, with clarity, honesty and integrity while demonstrating exceptional in-person and on-screen presentation skills
• Expects of self and others high standards for work and behavior; accountable, assertive and dependable. Strong attention to detail and able to prioritize tasks and manage time effectively
• Desire to remain current in industry topics by seeking constant learning opportunities and improvement
• We seek minds that are curious about all new technology but particularly individuals who are actively experimenting with AI to work with us in continuing to bring the future to our clients and their customers
• Aptitude and ability to lead, train and manage others along with an ability to work independently and autonomously to tackle problems and generate solutions

Additional information:

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

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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Compensation Range: USD $88,540.00 - USD $135,632.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan