OCLC, Inc.
Associate Product Manager (Project Management)
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The Job Details are as follows:
The Associate Product Manager is a fast-paced role responsible for executing on product strategy with rapid ideation, innovative business cases, and constant collaboration with end users. This position owns execution of large, complex projects, ensuring the product vision propagates to all aspects of the product development team. This position owns defining product strategies that surprise and delight OCLC member libraries.Following on collaboration with end users and libraries, this role initiates conversations with critical stakeholders such as community leaders, product marketing, sales, development, and UX/UI. This role must be comfortable describing new ideas through the lens of users. This role requires a keen product sense, a discerning eye, and high expectations for what quality solutions look like.
This position defines what is valuable to member libraries and why. The Associate Product Manager contributes to the following deliverables: Produces product strategy, roadmaps, annual product plans, business cases, and monthly product reviews, launch plans, white papers, product presentations, market messaging, event support, competitive write-ups, user personas, and high-level requirements.
This position connects corporate and line of business initiatives to product initiatives. The Associate Product Manager contributes to the following deliverables: Portfolio business plans, line of business strategies, portfolio roadmaps, metrics, and operational plans; portfolio progress plans and reviews; user requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
Reporting Relationships: Reporting directly to the Discovery Services
Typical Skills and Experiences:
Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience or Master's in Library & Information Science, Business Administration, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience, Knowledge, Abilities and Skills:
Job Conditions:
Working Conditions: Normal office environment.
ADA/EAA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.