Are you passionate about helping people make the most of their career? Helping companies improve hiring? Are you a digital AdTech native, with programmatic ad optimization in your DNA? DHI’s mission is to build the best niche career marketplaces, including Dice.com, eFinancialCareers.com, and ClearanceJobs.com, connecting qualified tech professionals to employers who seek them.

We’re looking for an energetic product leader with experience delivering large, strategic ad tech/performance marketing products. You’ll guide several teams across the business to transform how our customers engage and attract the best talent using pay-for-performance ad technologies, from concept through go-to-market delivery. You will craft a strategic and differentiated product that maximizes our marketplace yield, drives better value and results for our customers, and delivers a more engaging experience for job seekers using our career platforms.

Understanding our vision, strategy and solution dynamics, you’ll focus delivery teams on what’s most important. As an extraordinary communicator, you’ll work in Agile fashion with technology, product marketing, sales, finance, customer service and other product peers to translate the product concepts into reality.

You’ll test and learn to reduce risk along the way, while tracking the overall achievements that need to come together for a successful launch. Once launched, you’ll continue to lead us to iterate and improve the product to reach its full potential and market share, boosting the value and experience we deliver, growing into more channels, and increasing efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Lead effort across teams to deliver transformative performance-based advertising products to market, boosting revenue while minimizing costs.
• Manage product managers/analysts, while partnering with others in product, marketing, UX, tech, sales, and customer service.
• Ensure alignment, define roles/RACI, and empower ownership and execution for each solution component.
• Own creation of prioritized, actionable product roadmaps that deliver a premier pay-for-performance solution for our company. Gather business needs/requirements, working closely with partners throughout DHI.
• Effectively integrate the product across our Search, Job Ingestion, Campaign Management, Traffic Acquisition, Product Catalog and Billing systems.
• Use excellent verbal and written communication skills to share vision and clarify complex topics for a variety of audiences, including executives, customers, sales, customer success, tech, UX, product, marketing, and finance.
• Partner with tech, marketing, sales, and customer success to develop and execute release and go-to-market plans.
• Define product and operational KPIs/dashboards, and interpret analytics to improve results.
• Create transition strategies for existing & related pilot products.
• Set vision and strategy for product evolution, monitoring market trends to maintain product differentiation. Drive improvements through informative experiments, A/B testing and MVP mindset en route to scalable solutions.
• Work with Product Marketing, UX to do market research and competitive analysis. Analyze data, gain insights, interpret and respond to changes.
• Frame buy vs. build decisions for component systems.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

You’ll need deep expertise in the ad technology industry, optimally from experience with performance marketing, algorithmic optimization of paid search (pay-per-click, pay-per-action, pay-for-performance), campaign/bid management, programmatic ad platforms, auction, yield optimization and ad distribution networks. You’re well grounded in web technologies, search, user experience design, big data/data science algorithms, and reporting. SEO, SEM experience are also useful.

Keys to your success:

• Well-rounded Pragmatic Product Management competencies like product strategy, vision, positioning, personas, competitive analysis, distribution strategy, value-based pricing, product profitability, roadmap planning, launch/go-to-market planning, requirements, user scenarios, lead generation, sales process/customer acquisition.
• Organized; able to seamlessly multi-task.
• Energetic and enthusiastic, promoting a can-do attitude to build alignment, act with urgency to get results, and take educated risks.
• Blend Agile expertise (experiment, learn, adapt) with overarching project management techniques. Adept at balancing budgets and timelines.
• Anticipate and effectively solve complex problems.
• Consistently listen to customers and users, understanding pain points and delivering solutions that result in outstanding user experiences.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, IM/Chat, Confluence, SharePoint and other office productivity tools.
• Proficiency with Jira, StoriesOnBoard, ProductPlan (or other comparable product management tools)
• Proficiency with analytics tools like Adobe Analytics/Omniture, Tableau, Google Analytics, A/B testing frameworks, etc. is a plus
• Ability to occasionally travel (less than 20%)

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in business, marketing, technology or related field
• 7+ years of digital product management experience, including 4+ years in product leadership role, and proven success leading large-scale product initiatives from vision through build, go-to-market and beyond
• Experience scaling solutions through business process optimization, with continued focus on user/customer satisfaction and service delivery
• 2+ years management experience

Nice to Haves:

• MBA
• Pragmatic Marketing, Agile, and/or PMP certifications
• Experience with HR recruiting / talent management