Product Manager - Data Products

Merkle is a leading technology-enabled, data-driven customer experience management (CXM) company. For over 30 years, Fortune 1,000 companies and leading nonprofit organizations have partnered with us to build and maximize the value of their customer portfolios.

We are champions for meaningful progress and we strive to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all. Merkle is an agency of dentsu.

As the Data Product Manager, you own the strategy and tactical execution for the Merkury Data Delivery API product suite. In this position, you rely on your product management experience that includes a keen attention to detail, innovative problem solving, exceptional execution and communication skills to define and deliver working software that advances a compelling vision while delivering our data assets internally and externally.

The Data Product Manager should have a history of leading successful software product development teams. You obsess about delivering incremental business value each iteration. You excel at fostering both intra and cross team collaboration. You own and adapt the agile process to each unique team you partner with.

This is a remote position, reporting to VP, Product.

Responsibilities include:

• With the product owner, define and manage the product, delivery of goals, the agile process
• Conduct, manage, and mentor the team on agile methodologies
• Understand the 'why' behind feature requests; aggregate and articulate into strategic product opportunities
• Elicit and gather product requirements
• Translate requirements into agile epics and user stories, with measureable and testable acceptance criteria
• Oversee the Agile process, including running daily standups, prioritization, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives
• With the Product Owners, determine each quarter's strategic goals, prioritize the backlog, and manage the iterative directional roadmap based on business value and needs
• Work with the engineering lead to build sprint plans that meet business goals and strategic initiatives
• Communicate progress to the senior management and our stakeholders
• Develop and deliver quarterly business review and product stakeholder presentations
• Provide product management leadership for internal stakeholders, product owners and the development team
• Occasional travel to other Merkle offices might be required

• 2+ years running agile scrum projects and teams
• 2+ years as a Product Manager working directly with stakeholders: customers, end-users, clients, executives, etc
• 2+ years of working in/with software development teams
• Must have experience working with data and understanding data consumption needs
• An entrepreneurial spirit and a positive attitude
• Understanding AWS, Snowflake, and cloud-based architectures and systems

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The anticipated salary range for this position is $94,000-$152,375. Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and/or other benefits also are available. For more information regarding dentsu benefits, please visit dentsubenefitsplus.com

About dentsu
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We are champions for meaningful progress and we strive to be a force for good—for our people, for our clients, for the industry and for our society. We keep our people at the center, creating space for growth, understanding and learning so they can thrive. We embed diversity, in our mindset, in our solutions and in our teams to empower an inclusive, equitable and culturally fluent environment. Building this culture within our teams makes us better collaborators with each other and with our clients, driving better outcomes for all.

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