Senior Product Manager

 
Develop, drive and execute the global product portfolio as the Sr. Product Manager for the Xbox Console and Kinect.

Responsibilities include:

• Serving as the main liaison between the product development teams and product marketing.
• Working closely with Product Planning, Engineering, Market Research, Finance, Product Marketing and other stakeholders on prioritization of consumer scenarios for subsequent product investigations.
• Interfacing with Product Planning to develop and maintain the product portfolio and SKU strategy
• Evaluating new product opportunities, including the business case, financial impact, and product requirements
• Leading cross-functional teams to drive product concepts through the stage-gate process for executive approval and product development
• Maintaining knowledge and awareness of industry and competitive trends

The successful candidate has excellent consumer and/or business marketing knowledge, plus strategic planning experience. He or she must have the ability to help drive the product development process and partner with internal teams for implementation.

Must Also Possess:

• A track record that shows consistent, excellent performance in challenging and evolving roles
• Thought leadership: proven out-of-the-box thinker with the ability to synthetize complex information
• Exceptional attention to strategic value and customer requirements/satisfaction
• A thorough understanding of product ecosystems
• Critical analysis and problem solving skills
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple initiatives at different maturity stages.
• Self-starting mindset with the ability to generate ideas; who can work with minimal guidance across teams, independently or collaboratively
• Strong and proven written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications- The Ideal Candidate Will Have:

• 5+ years working in product marketing, product management, or product planning
• Excellent leadership, communication and organizational skills
• A passion for consumer marketing and new product development
• Interest in the video game and/or entertainment industry
• Bachelor's degree, or higher, preferably in engineering, business, or marketing
• MBA is strongly preferred.

If interested, email Josh Hutto by June 17, 2011. Please include a copy of your resume.

Manager, Digital Campaign Operations

 
A national business magazine is looking for a temp-to-hire Manager of Digital Campaign Operations to be responsible for supporting the sales team in executing and monitoring digital advertising programs. This individual will be a part of the Interactive Media team and will work to ensure campaign execution as well as provide optimal client service support for assigned advertisers and agencies. This includes: advertising creative deadlines, technical specifications, and managing inventory, tracking impression delivery, client presentations and reporting.

Responsibilities include:

• Manage and service clients to ensure accurate ad trafficking, contract fulfillment and quality control across multiple properties
• Track, measure, and analyze the performance of multiple advertising campaigns, including creating detailed performance reports and proposing optimization strategies
• Work directly with third party ad servers, rich media vendors, client's, media buying and trafficking teams and internal sales staff on all elements related to creative specifications, submission and ad trafficking
• Investigate and resolve delivery and performance issues and advise management as to revenue risk
• Execute the appropriate media mix for client campaigns based on pricing, spend thresholds and ROI factor and ensure that delivery is within expectations to hit revenue and margin goals
• Conduct daily, weekly, monthly system audits to ensure that overall system volume is healthy and back-end setup is correct
• Liaison with Sales, Product, Marketing, Design and Technology on new products and opportunities, participating in projects through all stages as the owner of advertising operations best practices, requirements and implementation plans
• Manage and deliver reporting and analysis requirements around revenue, sales, and web site advertising performance from various systems and sources, driving business insight and improvement. This may include static reports, ad hoc analysis, dashboards and in person meetings with key business stakeholders

Qualifications:

•  BA/BS degree (or equivalent training and experience)
•  2 - 3 years working in campaign management
•  Experience in marketing, online media, RFP responses 
•  Understanding of display advertising media metric and calculations
•  Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
•  Strong analytical and metric oriented mindset that can not only process quantitiatve results but also provide actionable suggestions based on these results
• Interactive agency, web consultancy or behavioral targeting experience a plus
• Exceptionally organized with the ability to multitask and manage multiple accounts
• Ability to understand and report on advertising data and rich media, HTML and Flash advertising units
• Experience with one or more Internet ad management or targeted marketing applications (DoubleClick DART for Publishers - AdTech, OAS, Mediaplex, etc)
• Ability to work overtime as needed
• Strong interest in the internet and new media
• Experience with flash, JavaScript and 3rd party ad servers a plus

If interested, apply directly on our website or email Christina Cruz at ccruz@tempositions.com and ccox@tempositions.com. Make sure to reference the job title in the application.