Product Manager – Spot Product Technology

Job Description

: About Our Organization:

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world's largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America's largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron's, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor's Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

About the Team:

OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides price transparency across the global fuel supply chain, including the Spot, Wholesale Rack and Retail markets. OPIS enables customers to buy and sell energy commodities with confidence with multi-platform access to accurate data, real-time news, powerful software and educational events. Our commitment to reliability is reinforced by personalized customer service and constant innovation. OPIS listens to what the energy community needs and responds with flexible and easy-to-use products. Navigating world fuel markets is complex – OPIS makes it simpler.

About the Role:

In this newly created position of Product Manager - Spot Product Technology Projects, you will improve the efficiency of Product Technology (PT) development and reduce the amount of time it takes to implement projects, particularly adding new assessments and creating new reports. You will move customers from legacy delivery methods to new, more easily maintained delivery methods. You will also improve the Spot Group's understanding of customers. You will report to the Director of Product Management - Spot Products Group.

You Will:

• Ensure that PT project requirements are fully specified so that development can proceed more efficiently

• Attend the majority of all PT sprint meetings and serve as the primary point of contact for PT and editorial in project execution

• Help manage the migration of customers from legacy distribution methods (emailed PDF, FTP/emailed raw data files) to new methods (Context, API)

• Work with the product director, PT, customer service, and sales, to establish a project plan to migrate customers to the API

• Plan and start leading a project to move customers from legacy raw data delivery methods to the API

• Schedule & help to conduct customer interviews, and organize & disseminate info learned from interviews

• Maintain and prioritize Spot PT project backlog

• Improve product reporting ( demos, conversion rates, renewal rates, changes in annual contract value, etc.)

• Plan and execute initiatives to maximize product performance, including evaluating new features/content and, improving marketing and sales enablement

You Have:

• 3+ years' relevant work experience in product management, customer service/success, project management, contracts administration, business analysis for digital products or business to business (B2B) products

• Understanding of actions required to accomplish a given goal and effectively break down complex projects into clear, actionable steps

• Experience thinking through all angles and implications of new projects to ensure there are no gaps in project plans

• Experience communicating with groups that have varying degrees of technical proficiency and understanding

• Written clear requirements documentation

• Strong project management skills

• Commodities, information services, or subscription business industry experience (preferred)

Our Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans

• Paid Time Off

• Retirement Plans

• Comprehensive Insurance Plans

• Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources

• Education Benefits

• Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support

• Commuter Transit Program

• Subscription Discounts

• Employee Referral Program

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Business Area: Dow Jones - OPIS

Job Category: Project/Program Management

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Pay Range: $40,000 - $160,000

We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.

Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.

For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Financial News.

This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.

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Req ID: 42216