Senior Product Manager

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Senior Product Manager

Location: Chicago, IL - Corporate HQ

Job Code: 783

# of Openings: 1

EEO Job Category: (2) Professionals

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Senior Product Manager



ABOUT NEXT COLLEGE STUDENT ATHLETE (NCSA)

NCSA is the world's largest and most successful collegiate athletic recruiting network. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Reigning Champs (www.reigningchamps.com), NCSA's team of more than 650 former collegiate and professional athletes leverages 17 years of exclusive data, proprietary matching algorithms, and personal relationships to connect tens of thousands of college-bound student-athletes to more than 35,000 college coaches nationwide across 31 sports every year. You can learn more about NCSA atwww.ncsasports.org.



Senior Product Manager Job Details

As a Senior Product Manager at NCSA, you will be responsible for creating innovative digital experiences for student-athletes and college coaches that help make the college recruiting process easier. You will champion the product vision and define and execute the product roadmap. Through research and feedback, you will deeply understand user pain points and opportunities to help both parties be successful in the recruiting process. You are a visionary who is excited to work alongside data scientists to push the business to solve problems with cutting edge technology.



Responsibilities

Conduct user feedback and research with college coaches, athletes and their parents on an ongoing basis to clearly understand their needs and pain points
Stay on top of market trends and knowledgeable of competition, identifying and surfacing any meaningful gaps
Identify new product opportunities
Collaborate with design and development to rapidly conceptualize, prototype, and validate new product ideas and innovations
Present concepts, business case and key insights to stakeholders to move from idea to roadmap
Supervise one Project Manager on day to day responsibilities
Define, align on and evangelize the product roadmap
Lead a scrum team to drive product development by defining feature sets, developing and communicating product requirements
Identify, manage and report on KPI's globally and related to strategic efforts
Create and implement a test & learn strategy in product development



Skills/Competencies:

You are intelligent and analytical with outstanding problem-solving skills. You enjoy creating elegant and simple solutions to very complex challenges
You truly enjoy talking to customers both satisfied and unsatisfied to learn their pain points and needs
You seek the truth, not to confirm your hypothesis
You are data driven and are experienced working with a data science team
You have experience working with innovative and emerging technologies (AI, machine learning)
You are a lifetime learner who is constantly seeking new information and keeping up with technology trends
You have a keen sense of business and are able to manage both customer and business needs simultaneously
You are an outstanding communicator, excited about evangelizing the vision at all levels of the company
You are known to win others over and not give up on what you believe in yet also understand the importance of listening and being open-minded
You are a motivated self-starter, don't need to be told what to do
You don't have to love sports, but you must be passionate about what we do which is helping athletes find the best college fit
You have demonstrated leadership skills and have managed others both directly and cross-functionally
You are process-driven
You are an experienced facilitator, able to bring varied backgrounds together to ideate and develop solutions



Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree
5+ years in product management or related role
3+ years of experience as the primary owner of consumer facing products
Experience with big data, AI, machine learning
Experience with both mobile & web platforms
Experience in an agile or Kanban environment
Experience conducting user research
Experience with web optimization tools



Benefits

Comprehensive Medical, Dental, & Life Insurance
Pre-Tax Flex Spending Account
401(k) Match Up to 3%
Parental Leave
Wellness Reimbursement Program
Online Health Assessments
EAP



National Collegiate Scouting Association LLC is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, age, disability, sexual and gender orientation, genetic information or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.





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