Thursday, September 29, 2011

Product Manager - (US-NJ-Lyndhurst)


Product Manager - (US-NJ-Lyndhurst)

Compensation: 
$80K - $90K / Year
Minimum Education: 
Bachelors
Job Type: 
Full Time
Jobcode: 
VEFJA2

Lead new product initiatives and site improvements with existing product offerings. This role will significantly impact the experience of millions of users by introducing and enhancing features to use within our products and services. You will optimize the current product, while recommending and implementing enhancements based on competitive research, product metrics and company goals. This includes managing the process from research and conceptual design to planning and production. You will collaborate with key business partners, third party vendors, as well as with internal creative and development teams and business units. This is an opportunity to utilize your experience with web, social media and mobile apps to revolutionize how patients search, choose, rate, review and book an appointment with physicians and other care providers. 

Responsibilities 
Define and enhance product features and user experience to facilitate member engagement resulting in increased feature utilization, deeper engagement, viral product adoption and revenue generation. 
Drive strategic product roadmaps for products and services that guide the organization as well as our customers and partners. 
Acts as a “product” expert, advocate and evangelist for key product aspects and or initiatives for executive team, other internal teams as well as 3rd party partners. 
Track industry trends and monitor competitors’ product features and member engagement initiatives. Synthesize competitive intelligence to drive product decisions and influence product roadmaps. 
Documentation of business requirements, functional/development requirements, and use cases. Participate in the creation of wireframes, user flows and user experience requirements. 
Own feature and product creation process from concept to launch; and interact with creative services and development engineers to ensure completeness of the optimal user experience. 
Collaborate with all areas of the company on new products and product enhancements. 
Understand and maximize efficiencies in web site development and user experience. 
Evaluate site metrics and optimize creative and element placements in order to maximize desired results (traffic, actions, $). 
Meet or exceed management defined activity and revenue goals. 
Other duties as assigned by members of management. 

Qualifications & Skills 
· Bachelor’s degree plus at least 2 years experience managing product or strategy at web site. 
· Must be passionate about delivering exceptional products and have a passion for the details. As well as having a reputation for solving the nine dots problem. 
· Experience writing business and product/functional requirements for web and or mobile applications. 
· Excellent communication, presentation, interpersonal and analytical skills; the ability to communicate product concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.
· Excellent blend of technical, analytical, project management and communication skills. 
· Must be self-motivated and able to prioritize and work with a team. 
· Ability to work in an extremely fast paced and high-energy work environment 
· Ability to take initiative, juggle multiple priorities, troubleshoot and work well with other departments to meet deadlines. 
· Experience product managing a rich internet application, personalization content portal or health care website a plus. 

Email resume in Word to TheBigGameHunter@cisny.com. Please include the job code for the position with your resume. 

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