Associate Director - Product (Syndicated Research)

Ipsos; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days leave

Pension

Income protection

Life assurance

Wellbeing benefits

Professional development

Hybrid working 3 days per week

Job summary

Ipsos is seeking a Product Manager – Syndicated Research (Audience Measurement) to join our Ipsos iris team in the UK. You will gather requirements from clients and commercial teams, refine user stories with the product owner, and drive features from conception to launch in a data-driven environment.

In this Associate Director level role, you will work with data analytics, software developers and data science, coordinating documentation and training for new releases while embedding Ipsos AI

Qualifications

• Expertise in syndicated research project mechanisms, data QA/QC, data sourcing and metrics.
• Understanding of audience measurement principles and related studies.
• Proficiency in audience reporting tools such as Telmar, Tableau, Power BI and Excel.

Responsibilities

• Gather client and commercial requirements and translate into user stories.
• Collaborate with product owners to prioritise backlog and roadmap features.
• Maintain documentation and coordinate training for new releases.
• Communicate releases and product developments to stakeholders.
• Work with cross-functional teams including data science, analytics and engineering.

Skills

Syndicated research

Audience measurement

Excel & PowerPoint

SQL & Python

Tools

Telmar

Tableau

Power BI

Google Analytics

Job description

Job Description

Product Manager – Syndicated Research (Audience Measurement)

Make your mark at Ipsos

Ipsos’s Audience measurement team is recruiting We are seeking a dynamic Product Manager at Associate Director level to join the Ipsos iris team, particularly adept in product management within a data-driven environment. This role requires working closely with data analytics, software developers, data science, and engineering, while maintaining interaction with industry bodies to discuss product evolution, primarily focusing on the Ipsos iris reporting interface and related data advancements.

This role sits in Ipsos’s Audience Measurement team that uses a deep understanding of people to make sense of audiences and how they consume media. We use these insights to influence media strategy, helping clients to answer crucial questions, such as how to target audiences, maximise attention across platforms, enhance audience experience, and demonstrate or increase audience value.

What is in it for you?

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on our flagship digital audience measurement tool. It is a unique opportunity that empowers to work autonomously. You will be working on UKOM, the UK body for online audience measurement, which appointed Ipsos as the new supplier of the UK industry standard for online audience measurement.

The new approach, Ipsos iris, has a single-source high quality nationally representative panel at its heart and will provide the industry with an unrivalled understanding of online behaviour across PC, smartphone and tablet.

The role

Your role is to gather requirements from clients and commercial teams, follow up and refine user stories with the relevant product owner, execute testing for new developments, and communicate information on the new features. Additionally, responsibilities will extend to maintaining comprehensive documentation and orchestrating training for any new or upgraded product releases.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate on enhancing and upgrading the reporting interface. Transform product roadmap elements into product requirements, including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.
• Partner with the Head of Ipsos iris and Product Owners on prioritization, backlog maintenance, product roadmap development, and driving Ipsos iris's features from conception to launch in a dynamic setting.
• Ensure clear and precise requirement documentation and alignment with timelines amidst regular communication.
• Operate within an Agile framework, reviewing business requirements against priorities, outlining deliverables, and evaluating opportunities and risks.
• Assume ownership of tasks from initiation to completion.
• Keep documentation current.
• Communicate consistently and transparently about releases, product developments, and industry news.
• Engage with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, including data science, analytics, design/user experience, engineering, and user enablement.
• Embed and leverage Ipsos AI tools usage as part of the daily tasks to enable efficiency in communication, documentation, and planning.
• Demonstrate meticulous attention to detail and teamwork skills, coupled with autonomous priority management and task execution.
• Participate in conferences, events, and webinars.

About You

We are seeking a proactive individual who is well-versed in the latest digital technology and media industry developments and actively monitors ongoing trends. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a keen ability to integrate emerging innovations and market shifts into the product strategy to ensure continuous growth and advancement.

Essential Criteria

• Expertise in syndicated research project mechanisms, including thorough comprehension of inputs, outputs, methodologies, data QA/QC, data sourcing, panel recruitment, measurement solutions, UI, and metrics.
• In-depth understanding of audience measurement principles, with prior experience in studies associated with audience measurement.
• Proficiency in audience measurement reporting tools such as Telmar, TGI, Google Analytics, Tableau, Power BI, Ipsos iris and expertise in Excel.
• Expert in excel and power point
• Advantageous skills: Proficiency in SQL and Python for data mining.
• Familiarity with reporting software user experience

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support you as an individual. Our standard benefits include 25 days annual leave, pension contribution, income protection and life assurance. In addition, there are a range of health & wellbeing, financial benefits and professional development opportunities.

We realise you may have commitments outside of work and will consider flexible working applications - please highlight what you are looking for when you make your application. We have a hybrid approach to work and ask people to be in the office or with clients for 3 days per week.

We are committed to equality, treating people fairly, promoting a positive and inclusive working environment and ensuring we have diversity of people and views. We recognise that this is important for our business success - a more diverse workforce will enable us to better reflect and understand the world we research and ultimately deliver better research and insight to our clients.

We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme, certified as Level 1 Disability Confident Committed. We are dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

About Us

Ipsos is one of the world’s largest research companies and currently the only one primarily managed by researchers, ranking as a #1 full-service research organization for four consecutive years. With over 75 different data-driven solutions, and presence in 90 markets, Ipsos brings together research, implementation, methodological, and subject‑matter experts from around the world, combining thematic and technical experts to deliver top-quality research and insights. Simply speaking, we help the biggest companies solve some of their biggest problems, serving more than 5000 clients across the globe by providing research, data, and insights on their target markets. And we are proud of our continuous efforts in making Ipsos the best place to work!