Product Manager, Mapping and Weather Visualization

AccuWeather; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

AccuWeather is seeking a Product Manager, Mapping and Weather Visualization to lead how we visually represent information across web, app, and B2B products. You will shape features, design experiences and drive end-to-end delivery from concept to launch.

Reporting to the SVP, Digital Strategy, the role requires strategic thinking, strong communication, and a passion for geospatial data. A junior to mid-level PM who thrives on science and data visualization will fit well.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 4-6 years' experience in product management.
• Experience with web and app platforms and frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of digitally distributed products and technology.
• Experience writing detailed requirements for products (wireframes, criteria, business cases).
• Ability to interact and communicate with product, design, and development teams of all levels, distributed staffing models.
• Meticulous attention to detail with broad strategic orientation.
• Comfortable prioritizing pipelines based on strategic evaluation of goals.
• Proven leadership experience and ability to communicate to upper management.
• Exceptional communication skills.
• Creative and curious with ability to work within practical boundaries.
• Adaptive to rapidly changing environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop solutions for current and future visualizations to drive user engagement and audience growth.
• Facilitate communication across the organization, collecting and analyzing feedback from customers and stakeholders to shape requirements.
• Collaborate with UX/UI/Interaction teams to create exceptional user experiences while supporting monetization efforts.
• Work with partners and cross-functional teams to extend AccuWeather's reach and feature set.
• Understand audience needs and the features they use and want.
• Monitor product performance and address challenges as they arise.
• Lead a scrum team of engineers and product designers to execute plans quickly.
• Own end-to-end project success from requirements through design, development, launch and post-launch analysis.
• Develop strategy and creative recommendations to expand product vision across the portfolio.

Skills

Product management

Web and app platforms

UX/UI collaboration

Cross-functional leadership

Data visualization

Geospatial data

Requirement writing

Sprint management

Team leadership

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

The Product Manager, Mapping and Weather Visualization leads efforts related to how we visually represent information on AccuWeather's web, app, and B2B properties. This role is at the forefront of the company's innovation and an influential leader charged with shaping key features within our consumer and business products. Reporting to the SVP, Digital Strategy, this position is an exciting opportunity to translate your vision into an impactful strategy while also defining features, designing experiences and driving execution from start to finish.

To succeed in this role, you should be a perceptive and creative leader with sound communication skills, exceptional solution-crafting capabilities and have a healthy addiction to the displaying geospatial information. This role is perfectly suited for a junior to mid-level product manager with a passion for science, technology, and leveraging data to improve people's lives.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop solutions for existing and future visualizations that drive user engagement and audience growth.
• Facilitate communication across the organization, collecting and analyzing feedback from customers, stakeholders, and other teams to shape requirements; communicate to stakeholders regularly.
• Create exceptional user experiences through collaboration with product experience team - UX/UI/Interaction - while also maximizing revenue by supporting monetization efforts.
• Work with third parties, strategic partners, and cross functional internal teams to further AccuWeather's reach and feature set.
• Understand the ins & outs of your audience - who they are, the features they use and enhancements they want.
• Monitor your products, ensuring optimal performance, and being on top of any challenges that may arise.
• Manage the development sprints; prioritize product enhancements, while simultaneously crushing technical debt.
• Lead a scrum team comprising of engineers and product designers to execute against your plans quickly.
• Manage data integrity to ensure accuracy and relevancy; from data source through to display.
• Produce and review product requirement documents to the highest of standards.
• Own the end-to-end success of projects from requirements definition through design, development, launch, and post-launch analysis.
• Work with subject matter experts for your products, capabilities and services.
• Develop a strategy and make creative recommendations to expand our product vision across the portfolio.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree with 4-6 years' experience in product management
• Experience working with web and app platforms and frameworks
• Demonstrated superior knowledge of digitally distributed products and technology
• Experience writing detailed requirements for products, such as wire frames, criteria, and business cases
• Ability to interact and communicate with product, design, and development teams of all levels, backgrounds and distributed staffing models
• Demonstrated ability to be meticulous detailed with high-quality attention to detail and focus on a broad, strategic orientation
• Comfortable prioritizing pipelines of work based on a strategic evaluation of goals and implications
• Proven leadership experience, including showing that you can effectively communicate to your team and to upper management
• Exceptional communication skills
• Driving collective decisions, while being comfortable making independent decisions and thinking through all product ramifications
• Highly creative and curious with ability to work within practical boundaries
• Flexibility and adaptability to rapidly changing environment

ABOUT ACCUWEATHER

AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved over 12,000 lives, prevented injury to over 100,000 people, and saved companies tens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making.

Billions of people around the world rely on AccuWeather's proven Superior Accuracy across our consumer digital platforms.AccuWeather.comis the #1 weather destination and one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world, and our award-winning AccuWeather app delivers detailed real-time forecasts to millions of smartphones.

AccuWeather forecasts also appear on digital signage, in 700 newspapers, are heard on over 400 radio stations, and viewed on 100 television stations. The AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW reach an audience of over 125 million on cable and streaming platforms including DirecTV, Charter Communications - Spectrum, Verizon, Philo, Frndly TV, Comcast's Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream, Roku, Xumo, Rockbot, LG, and Amazon Freevee.

AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally.

Dr. Joel Myers, Founder and Executive Chairman, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the "father of modern commercial meteorology." Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been called "the most accurate man in weather" by The New York Times and has been recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur's Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e‑mail to [e-mail] and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.