Senior Product Manager for Reporting & Analytics - REMOTE (*US)

at  Public Library of Science

Senior Product Manager for Reporting and Analytics - REMOTE (*US and UK)
*US candidates must be based in any of the following states:
Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Virginia
Description
PLOS is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Reporting and Analytics to drive the success of our
enterprise reporting solutions and steward our analytics infrastructure. In this role, you’ll work closely
with the PLOS Leadership Team to establish a vision for your area of ownership. Through strong
relationships with stakeholders, customers and users, you will prioritize needs and wants. You’ll work
with project management to shape initiatives and establish a strategic roadmap and ensure the
organization maintains collective awareness of goals, plans, and progress. You’ll lead buy-versus-build
analysis and establish compelling business cases. Whether working with implementers of a 3rd-party
solution or PLOS developers, you will ensure a product vision is clearly articulated, solution requirements
are fully understood, and desired outcomes are measurable. Your work will have a material impact on
our collective success, helping to fulfil our business objectives, improve our operations, and further our
mission.
Responsibilities

Product Strategy

• Manage business performance of existing reporting solutions and analytics infrastructure
• Establish and evolve solution strategies to further business goals
• Identify and define epic requirements, manage epic backlog and drive strategic roadmap
• Communicate solution strategies and plans within the organization; enable and contribute to

external communication

Product Development

• Operate in the role of product owner within our Agile SDLC
• Identify, define and validate valuable user stories, manage story backlog and scope releases
• Collaborate with engineers and designers in solution development and engage stakeholders,

customers, and users in acceptance testing as warranted

• Communicate release plans and author release notes

Product Support

• Lead internal trainings, presentations, and demos of solutions within your area of ownership
• Address escalations and field questions from staff
• Support sales activities

Qualifications and Experience

• BA, BS or equivalent degree required.
• Deep knowledge and experience of product management required.
• Several years working with reporting solutions and data visualization in a hands-on and design

capacity.

• Prior ownership of large-scale datasets and significant experience with tools such as Tableau,

Sisense, and/or Microsoft PowerBI.

• Experience with reporting platform migrations is highly desired.
• Expert communication and negotiation skills required.
• Hands-on experience applying one or more modern innovation frameworks (Blue Ocean,

JTBD/ODI, Lean, etc.)

• Extensive experience conducting market and user research utilizing best practices
• Extensive experience operating within an Agile SDLC; comprehensive understanding of Agile best

practices.
Equal Opportunity Statement
We believe in pushing the boundaries of ’Open’ to create a more equitable system of scientific knowledge and understanding—it’s core to who we are, inside and out. Beyond accepting distinct perspectives, we seek and support divergent backgrounds among our staff because we know differences strengthen our teams, our work, and our communities. We’re ever-evolving in our journey for representation and equity, and strongly encourage applicants of diverse identities to apply: you’ll find a group of critical thinkers eager to challenge the status quo and learn with you as we continue breaking barriers to open science.
The Organization:
PLOS is a non-profit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. PLOS journals propelled the movement for OA alternatives to subscription journals. We established the first multi-disciplinary publication inclusive of all excellent research regardless of novelty or impact and demonstrated the importance of open data availability. As we continue to lead the way in making research content more open, we need to make it a system that’s open for everyone. We are intentionally spreading our roots deeper, globally.
We believe in pushing the boundaries of ’Open’ to create a more equitable system of scientific knowledge and understanding—it’s core to who we are, inside and out. Beyond accepting distinct perspectives, we seek and support divergent backgrounds among our staff because we know differences strengthen our teams, our work, and our communities. We’re ever-evolving in our journey for representation and equity, and strongly encourage applicants of diverse identities to apply: you’ll find a group of critical thinkers eager to challenge the status quo and learn with you as we continue breaking barriers to open science.
Job Type: Full-tim

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