Senior Product Manager II

Nielsen Holdings Plc; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Nielsen Holdings Plc in Bengaluru seeks a Senior Product Manager to shape product strategy and own the roadmap for a key product area. You will translate market opportunities and customer needs into clear requirements, and collaborate with engineering, design, marketing, sales and customer success to deliver impactful solutions.

You will mentor junior managers, define metrics, and use data-driven insights to guide iterations.

Qualifications

• Experience leading product initiatives and launching complex products.
• Strong strategic thinking with ability to translate vision into actionable plans and requirements.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Vision: Develop and articulate a comprehensive product vision and strategy for your assigned product area, aligning it with the company's overall strategic goals.
• Portfolio Ownership & Roadmap: Drive strategy across related product areas and manage the roadmap with clear communication to stakeholders.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate with engineering, design, marketing, sales and customer success throughout the product lifecycle.
• Market & Customer Research: Conduct market research and customer interviews to inform direction.
• Data-Driven Performance: Define KPIs, monitor performance, and use data insights to guide iterations.

Skills

Product management

Strategic thinking

Technical acumen

Analytical skills

Executive stakeholder engagement

Communication

Collaboration

Customer focus

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA a strong plus

Job description

At Nielsen, we are passionate about our work to power a better media future for all people by providing powerful insights that drive client decisions and deliver extraordinary results. Our talented, global workforce is dedicated to capturing audience engagement with content - wherever and whenever it’s consumed. Together, we are proudly rooted in our deep legacy as we stand at the forefront of the media revolution. When you join Nielsen, you will join a dynamic team committed to excellence, perseverance, and the ambition to make an impact together. We champion you, because when you succeed, we do too. We enable your best to power our future.

Job Description

What You’ll Do:

• Product Strategy & Vision: Develop and articulate a comprehensive product vision and strategy for your assigned product area, aligning it with the company's overall strategic goals. Identify significant market opportunities, evolving customer needs, and complex competitive landscapes to inform product direction.
• Portfolio Ownership: Drive strategy and execution across multiple related product areas, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives and maximizing cross-product synergies.
• Roadmap Ownership: Own and manage the product roadmap, strategically prioritizing features and initiatives based on long-term strategic value, significant customer impact, and technical feasibility. Clearly communicate the roadmap to executive stakeholders across the organization.
• Requirements Definition: Translate complex user needs, intricate business requirements, and advanced technical capabilities into detailed product specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate closely with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer success teams throughout the product lifecycle. Facilitate effective communication and critical decision-making to ensure successful product delivery.
• Market & Customer Research: Conduct thorough market research, competitive analysis, and in-depth customer interviews to gain profound insights into user behavior, critical pain points, and emerging trends.
• Data-Driven Performance & Iteration: Define key performance indicators (KPIs) for your products, rigorously monitor performance, and leverage advanced data-driven insights to identify areas for substantial improvement and guide future iterations. Comfort with analyzing and interpreting highly complex datasets is essential.
• Stakeholder Management: Build strong, influential relationships with internal and external stakeholders, effectively managing expectations and communicating critical product updates and progress to senior leadership.
• Mentorship: Actively mentor junior and senior product managers, sharing advanced best practices and significantly contributing to the growth and development of the entire product team.

Qualifications

What You’ll Bring:

• Experience: Overall 7+ years of experience in product management or similar roles within product companies, with a proven track record of successfully launching and scaling complex, impactful products.
• Strategic Thinking: Exceptional ability to think strategically and translate broad, ambitious visions into actionable plans and detailed product requirements.
• Technical Acumen: Deep understanding of software development processes and technologies. Ability to engage in sophisticated technical discussions with engineering teams and guide architectural decisions.
• Analytical Skills: Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to use complex data to drive critical product decisions.
• Executive Stakeholder Engagement: Demonstrated executive presence with the ability to effectively influence and engage senior leadership to drive product strategy and organizational alignment.
• Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate highly complex ideas clearly and persuasively to diverse, including executive, audiences.
• Collaboration: Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.
• Customer Focus: A profound empathy for users and a passion for creating products that solve significant, real-world problems.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field. MBA a strong plus