THE OPPORTUNITY

We seek an experienced, passionate, and highly motivated Senior Vice President, Product Management based in Stamford, CT who will own growing a product management team focused on streaming media identity, data/targeting, measurement, and all other portfolio products. This person will be responsible for all aspects of product management and platform strategy.

This role will coordinate closely with Sales, Operations and Engineering leadership to enhance existing products, develop new products, extend into new markets, assist in commercialization and GTM strategies as well as own the overall process for maximizing the efficiency and quality of Tru Optik's technology platforms. This person will have market-facing duties including customer and prospect communications, partnership evaluation, attending industry events, etc.

This person will also be a key member of the executive team working closely with the CEO, CTO, COO, existing Senior Director of Product Management and related teams to drive scalable and predictable delivery and maintenance of new and existing platforms, applications and research/data science solutions. This executive will play a high-profile role in helping lead the company through its next period of strategic growth.

This position will initially report to the Chief Operating Officer.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Engage customers, prospects, and other stakeholders to create a prioritized strategy and roadmap resulting in solutions that will drive new sales and revenue opportunities while supporting existing clients and revenue streams.
• Drive and facilitate the planning process to provide focus and alignment on critical strategies that will maintain a high level of customer satisfaction, ensure contract renewals, and attract new business.

• Ensure maintenance/improvement of existing products across our clients and prospects is accounted for in the roadmap to ensure reliable operations., including planning, execution, and reporting/analytics.

• Manage recruitment, development, and retention of a world-class team of product professionals, keeping staff focused and motivated, while connecting business goals to their work.

• Drive the translation of company vision into commercially successful cloud-based and/or DaaS products and predictable product roadmap.
• Collaborate with leadership and Engineering to lead product design, delivery, manage product release cycle and all associated processes and tools.
• Assisting with market research and market sizing to assess new product opportunities.
• Evangelize Tru Optik's product vision.
• Create and execute upon project plans while ensuring internal department readiness to maximize success of marketing campaigns, educate staff, and ensure smooth rollouts to customer base.
• Identify new market opportunities and define corresponding Go to Market strategies.

• Manage the product life cycle with a cross functional team through a disciplined approach that helps provide focus and prioritize investments that ultimately drive revenue and profitability goals.

• Define and measure objectives of product & feature intent in terms of (1) revenue, (2) usage, and (3) customer satisfaction.

• Identify key requirements and communicate to development and internal teams through clear user stories and specifications.
• Identify opportunities to productize features so they can be made available to existing customers.
• Cultivate an agile and results-driven, innovative culture that preserves Tru Optik's thought leadership.

• Be a face of Tru Optik for key markets by attending relevant conferences, holding webinars, and managing speaking engagements.

ABOUT YOU

• Bachelor's/Master's Degree(s) degree with 10-15 years in progressive product management roles with direct experience in the data sector and with the associated digital media and advertising/marketing technology ecosystems

• Extensive knowledge of delivering data products and enterprise SaaS solutions to large customers
• Experience with streaming media (including CTV/OTT, streaming audio and gaming) will be a significant plus
• Proven ability to create strategic product plans designed to penetrate markets and develop successful products

• Have developed communication, leadership, team building, and people management skills
• Excellent oral, written, and presentation communication skills

• Strong analytical mind to drive innovative solutions
• Solid understanding of software architecture and experience working with the software development lifecycle from requirements definition through post release support

• Experience building big data applications utilizing GSQL, Redis, Aerospike, Omnisci and various related NoSQL technologies; Open Source and relational database expertise (MySQL); Experience with products managing a high volume of requests (over 1 million per second) and being able to demonstrate how to effectively summarize the data for various extensible business use cases.
• Outstanding technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills and a collaborative working style

• Familiarity with an Agile development environments and experience managing a team of product owners within a Scrum environment
• High energy individual with demonstrated ability to work in self-directed manner in high growth, unstructured environment

OTHER VALUES

• Smart and excited about learning in a dynamic work environment
• Self-motivated and can thrive in a startup
• Optimistic/Can do attitude
• Fun to work with
• Fundamentally excited about the opportunity to reshape an industry!

BENEFITS

Tru Optik offers a competitive benefits package including subsidized healthcare, 401k match, remote work support, office snacks, and a flexible approach to vacations and time off.