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Sr. Director, Product Management/Development (SOMA / south beach)
Technorati is seeking a creative, zealous, high-energy, self-starting, seasoned Product Management leader to lead a team responsible for defining and delivering the product suite required to address the needs of our users on and off Technorati.com. You will provide leadership in furthering Technorati's strategic objectives by defining product innovations that engage our audience, grow membership and participation, and create high-value revenue opportunities. The ideal candidate will demonstrate passion, expertise, and leadership in social media, editorial and publishing, search and discovery, community management, and user experience design. Experience with ad marketplaces and systems, and reputation and identity systems is considered a plus. Candidate must be an avid consumer of emergent media and be intimately familiar with the established players and recent arrivals in Web 2.0 space.
Responsibilities:
- Define and own product strategy and roadmap - Lead a team that consistently meets commitments and performance objectives - Be an advocate for our users and define and create new services that engage them - Create product adoption scenarios and growth plans - Deliver on-time and up-to-spec products and services - Develop, collect and analyze product performance metrics - Develop, manage, and perform user scenarios, use cases and market studies - Manage application interaction design, workflow and navigation, and website information architecture - Instill and maintain total commitment to quality and operational excellence in every product and service you create and impact
Requirements: - BS/MS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience - Ten plus years of relevant experience - Strong Product Management experience in search, online (performance) advertising or internet commerce - Demonstrate fluent knowledge of emerging web technologies, standards and practices and social trends - Technical academic background in the information arena as well as domain experience - Problem and conflict solving abilities - Understand the motivations that drive users to become avid users of a service, as well as participate and contribute to the service - Comfortable working with large data sets - Ability to motivate and influence people across organizations and levels - Strong communication and negotiation skills - Communicate effectively with senior management on the progress and scope of the Products and services
Company: Technorati. The authority of the blogoshere Technorati is the recognized authority on blogs and social media. Through our search and discovery tools Technorati makes it easy to find the hottest and most relevant conversations amongst blogs and main stream media. We offer a combined discovery and search service that enables readers to find the most relevant content and for bloggers to find the most receptive audiences. We maintain one of the largest searchable indexes of hundreds of millions of blogs, blog posts, photos, videos and more. We update our information in real time bringing the best of what’s happening right now on the web to you.
We've built our team by finding the most creative, passionate and talented people with deep knowledge of the blogosphere. We provide unique and creative career challenges, and other employees who are equally committed. If you're looking for experienced and supportive management, a fun and healthy team atmosphere, and an outstanding opportunity where high standards are respected and contributions are recognized, we would like to talk to you.
For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume and cover letter describing why you are the best candidate to mdaglow@technorati.com. Principals only.
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