Product Manager – News. Major Media Company, New York City

Our client
Our client is a major media company whose flagship news-centric site attracts over 20 million unique page views per month.

Responsibilities:

- Partnering closely with Editorial, participate in creation of product roadmap with a focus on delivering next generation product experiences using our client’s best in class content .

- Manage news content distribution, (including RSS, API)

- Perform consumer needs analysis, market sizing, and competitive analysis to determine which online features will address key consumer opportunities

- Gather, synthesize and prioritize market needs and business requirements

- Transform business requirements into detailed product requirements and lead cross-functional teams in product definition and design.

- Create detailed product requirements that describe the products and features to be built.

- Partner with Engineering team throughout the creative, build and implementation phases to ensure high quality, on time releases that balances consumer and business needs.

- Act as product evangelist and solicit feedback to quickly build consensus around decisions

- Ensure future product releases reflect experience gained from external market activities, customer discussions, usage analysis, competitive response and market research

- Analyze and articulate emerging technologies and market trends.

- Deliverables will include page wireframes, market research documents, detailed product specifications and product roadmaps

Qualifications

Requirements:

- Minimum 4 years internet product management experience in an online news environment with experience in online video

- Minimum 4 years experience writing product requirements and managing project details in a fast paced web environment (business owners, IA/Design, Technology)

- Experience working closely with editorial, engineering, sales, operations and business development teams.

- Must be solution and team oriented with the ability to build trust and influence others

- Self-motivated, able to proactively work toward a goal independent

Salary / benefits
A competitive salary and benefits package is offered.

To apply:
Email info @ glenborn.com

Product Manager, SEO – Major Media Company, NYC

Our client

Our client is a major media company whose flagship site attracts over 20 million unique page views per month. They are actively seeking an experienced SEO/Search product manager.

Key Job Responsibilities:

Work with the development team to specify, build, test and launch new SEO products, features and experiments.
Communicate updates on KPI benchmarks and reporting results.
Analyze the competition, conduct keyword research, and write on page optimizations.
Identify duplicate content, broken links, and other potential issues.
Manage XML sitemaps and relationships with search engines.
Work with designers, editors and product managers to educate and evangelize on SEO.
Develop and manage site standards for SEO best practices.
Manage all off-page SEO including manual directory submissions, manual search engine submissions to Google, Yahoo, and Bing, and search submission verification, performance reports, social bookmarking, offsite blog/forum postings, link building and blog comments.

Required Skills:
Strong knowledge of search engine algorithms and ranking strategies.
Strong quantitative skills, ability to quickly analyze data and action on it.
Strong understanding of web technologies to ensure SEO best practices are implemented.
Meticulous attention to detail.
Top notch communication skills.
3+ years in a media environment.

Desired Skills:
Strong understanding of social media and SEO is a plus.

Salary / benefits
A competitive salary and benefits package is offered.

To apply:
Email info @ glenborn.com

Social Media Product Manager – Major Media Co. New York City.

Our client

Our client is a major media company whose flagship site attracts over 20 million unique page views per month. They are actively seeking an experienced social media product manager. The candidate must be a highly motivated self-starter, detail-oriented and possess exceptional communication skills.

Key Responsibilities:

Define and prioritize business requirements and commercial plan;

Execute product releases
Drive product development life cycle, business requirements definition and product vision
Coordinate product positioning and go-to-market plans with sales teams
Drive revenue growth to meet targets by working proactively with Sales, Analytics, Marketing and Business Development
Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to develop and drive product strategy.
Work closely within a cross functional team to deliver innovative products to market
Define social media products which balance business needs, user needs and technological capabilities into strong social media apps
Define and prioritize application and feature development across multiple site editions
Lead cross-functional teams to define product specifications, establish milestones, and manage the development, implementation and marketing launch against goals
Monitor the competitive landscape, identifying and leading relevant market, site and consumer research needs

Requirements:
Posses a passion for social media, good user experiences and product development
Experience defining requirements, formulating business cases, and identifying new market opportunities through competitive analysis and researching user needs.
Excellent presentation skills

Understands and effectively uses knowledge of emerging industry and technology developments to successfully work with partners and internal customers.
Understands the industry landscape and optimizes that knowledge to better the product development process
Excellence in the creation of product requirement documents, detailing comprehensive product and feature definitions
Excellent oral and written communication skills including the capability to extract the core essence out of complex scenarios, and the talent to motivate teams
Experience with internationalization and localization is a plus
College degree and 3+ years successful, large-scale product management experience of consumer-targeted products

Salary / benefits
A competitive salary and benefits package is offered.

To apply:
Email info @ glenborn.com

Director of Sales – Digital Agency / marketing consultancy – NYC and San Francisco

Job Title:
Director of Sales

Location: New York, NY

Description:
Our client is a new digital agency who bring mission-critical digital insights and strategies to both established and emerging brands.  The team is comprised of highly successful industry veterans who recognized the limitations of the standard digital agency approach and have created a new model that allows companies to achieve true digital marketing. We are empowered with finding them a sales star to take them to the next level.

The Director of Sales will be directly responsible for growing the agency’s client roster and expanding its existing business .The Director of Sales will be a key player at the table, who has a unique opportunity to shape and grow the business to the point where they will need to create a team of sales professionals below them in the medium term. This role is initially a senior individual contributor role with the potential to build a team as the business justifies it.

Responsibilities

• Creating a go-to-market plan for sales including target identification / list creation.
• Identifying and qualifying prospects
Developing winning selling strategies and proposals
• Managing and accelerating sales cycles. Closing deals.
• Managing and maximizing existing client relationships
• Coordinating and managing virtual, opportunity-based teams
• Reporting and Forecasting

Experience

• Must have at least 8-10 years of Direct sales experience in a senior account management role combining both hunting and farming experience.
Direct Sales Experience with an interactive agency or a scaleable software / SaaS platform targeted towards marketing professionals or preferably both.
• Experience in a hands-on startup environment
Ability to sell in a consultate manner and effectively across both Fortune 1000 firms and emerging companies and get a deep understanding of their business and challenges.
• Strong personal knowledge of Web and Social Media, Digital marketing, industry trends and players a requirement.
• Ability to act autonomously and set both strategic and tactical direction.
• Excellent presentation, communication and sales skills.
• Expertise in and disciplined use of CRM systems
Strategic ability to create and define an effective and scaleable sales process
• BA/BS required

Salary
• Competitive Base commensurate with experience, plus uncapped commission.

Junior Account Exec – Multichannel Commerce Platform – New york City

Our client provides a complete solution to web-based merchants to fully integrate their e-commerce platform with a multichannel approach as well as making them potential market places. Their platform can scale to millions of products, hundreds of channels and providers. The solution automate all key business processes and functions within a marketplace and allows any client to create their own branded marketplace, an umbrella marketplace with many branded 3rd party sellers and to participate in selling their wares in other marketplaces. Current customers include Amazon, ebay, Shop and buy.com among many others. They are venture backed and based in NYC and are looking for a highly talented individual to join their sales team in New York City.

The position:

Our client is seeking a junior hands on sales person to kick-start our commercial activities while we build a full sales team. You will be working directly with the CEO initially. This is a great learning opportunity to be part of a growing dynamic company. Build a roster of potential customers, manage your pipeline, initiate and close opportunities.

The requirements:

1) Sales Background:

* 2-5 years working experience in sales (inside or outside), marketing, or customer service

* Ideally trained in solution selling and SaaS/ecommerce background

* Sales-minded demeanor, with a particular strength in finding new business

2) Tech Savvy:

* Must be very comfortable on the internet with major sites and tools

* Must pick up technology concepts quickly

3) Analytical Thinking:

* Capable of methodically sorting through an issue and following through with Client Services or Support team to resolve

* Able to organize time and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment

* Able to interpret data on reports and make recommendations to improve performance

4) Communication Skills:

* Strong verbal and written communication skills

* Must excel at explaining and simplifying complex concepts (in-person, by phone, and via e-mail)

5) A Winning Attitude:

* Must be positive and enjoy helping clients on technology-related issues

* Must work with integrity and care for colleagues