Product Manager, Digital Forecasting Systems

Product Manager, Digital Forecasting Systems

State College, PA

The Product Manager, Digital Forecasting Systems owns the strategy, development, and ongoing improvement of AccuWeather's digital forecasting platforms, with primary responsibility for the Unified Forecast Database (UFDB) and related forecast products. This role ensures forecasts are accurate, actionable, consistent, and aligned with AccuWeather philosophy across all digital outputs.

This role leads prioritization and delivery of system enhancements that improve forecast accuracy, operational efficiency, automation, and product innovation. It serves as a central point of coordination between forecasting leadership, engineering, design, and external partners to identify quality issues, define requirements, and deliver solutions from concept through launch and post-launch evaluation.

The role also establishes and enforces standards for forecast communication, supports training and process improvement, and ensures forecasting systems and products effectively represent AccuWeather's mission, brand, and commitment to Superior Accuracy™.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead work on our Digital Forecasting Database, UFDB, to ensure forecasts are conveying accurate and actionable forecasts that follow AccuWeather philosophy.
• Continually prioritize and ensure on-time delivery of an ongoing set of enhancements to the UFDB system bringing benefits of improved accuracy, greater forecast preparation efficiency, process automation and new features.
• Identify concerns and enhancements to our forecast systems and displays (UFDB, MinuteCast, WinterCast, etc) and work with the appropriate teams to bring them to fruition.
• As a key component of this responsibility, develop and continually monitor process to identify operational weather data related quality concerns within AccuWeather products such that the root cause of such issues are quickly understood and corrected.
• Ensure the AccuWeather Philosophy is kept up to date through a continuous review process and that training is held for pertinent parts of the organization so all of our communications are properly in line with our standards.
• Oversee creation and maintenance of products and forecasting systems for the Forecasting Operational team.
• Work with Forecasting leadership to ensure department runs effectively in producing forecasts and communications that positively represent the company, its mission and standards.
• Establish, refine and execute a process for new products and changes to ensure philosophy is followed and best practices in weather displays and weather communications are utilized. Engage early in the development process and provide feedback toward these goals.
• Work with third parties, strategic partners, and cross functional internal teams to further AccuWeather's reach and feature set.
• Manage the development sprints; prioritize product enhancements, while simultaneously crushing technical debt.
• Lead a scrum team comprising of engineers and product designers to execute against your plans quickly.
• Produce and review product requirement documents to the highest of standards.
• Own the end-to-end success of projects from requirements definition through design, development, launch, and post-launch analysis.
• Work with subject matter experts for your products, capabilities and services.
• Develop a strategy and make creative recommendations to expand our product vision across the portfolio.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 4-6 years' experience in product management
• As this is a function works closely with our Forecasting systems and the meteorological teams; a B.S. in Meteorology or Atmospheric Sciences is preferred.
• Experience working with web and app platforms and frameworks
• Demonstrated superior knowledge of digitally distributed products and technology
• Experience writing detailed requirements for products, such as wire frames, criteria, and business cases
• Ability to interact and communicate with product, design, and development teams of all levels, backgrounds and distributed staffing models
• Demonstrated ability to be meticulous detailed with high-quality attention to detail and focus on a broad, strategic orientation
• Comfortable prioritizing pipelines of work based on a strategic evaluation of goals and implications
• Proven leadership experience, including showing that you can effectively communicate to your team and to upper management
• Exceptional communication skills
• Driving collective decisions, while being comfortable making independent decisions and thinking through all product ramifications
• Highly creative and curious with ability to work within practical boundaries
• Flexibility and adaptability to rapidly changing environment

About AccuWeather

AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved over 12,000 lives, prevented injury to over 100,000 people, and saved companies tens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making.

Billions of people around the world rely on AccuWeather's proven Superior Accuracy™ across our consumer digital platforms. AccuWeather.com is the #1 weather destination and one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world, and our award-winning AccuWeather app delivers detailed real-time forecasts to millions of smartphones.

AccuWeather forecasts also appear on digital signage, in 700 newspapers, are heard on over 400 radio stations, and viewed on 100 television stations. The AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW® reach an audience of over 125 million on cable and streaming platforms including DirecTV, Charter Communications - Spectrum, Verizon, Philo, Frndly TV, Comcast's Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream, Roku, Xumo, Rockbot, LG, and Amazon Freevee.

AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally.

Dr. Joel Myers, Founder and Executive Chairman, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the "father of modern commercial meteorology." Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been called "the most accurate man in weather" by The New York Times and has been recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur's Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to View email address on click.appcast.io and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.