AccuWeather

Product Manager, Digital Forecasting Systems

State College, PA · Exec

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 180 days ago

Product ManagementProduct StrategyAgileForecastingProcess ImprovementLeadershipCommunicationAdaptability

About the role

This role ensures forecasts are accurate, actionable, consistent, and aligned with AccuWeather philosophy across all digital outputs.
AccuWeather forecasts also appear on digital signage, in 700 newspapers, are heard on over 400 radio stations, and viewed on 100 television stations.

Responsibilities

Lead work on our Digital Forecasting Database, UFDB, to ensure forecasts are conveying accurate and actionable forecasts that follow AccuWeather philosophy.
As a key component of this responsibility, develop and continually monitor process to identify operational weather data related quality concerns within AccuWeather products such that the root cause of such issues are quickly understood and corrected.
Work with third parties, strategic partners, and cross functional internal teams to further AccuWeather's reach and feature set.
Manage the development sprints
Lead a scrum team comprising of engineers and product designers to execute against your plans quickly.
Produce and review product requirement documents to the highest of standards.
Own the end-to-end success of projects from requirements definition through design, development, launch, and post-launch analysis.
Manage the development sprints; prioritize product enhancements, while simultaneously crushing technical debt.
Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree with 4-6 years' experience in product management
Experience working with web and app platforms and frameworks
Demonstrated superior knowledge of digitally distributed products and technology
Experience writing detailed requirements for products, such as wire frames, criteria, and business cases
Demonstrated ability to be meticulous detailed with high-quality attention to detail and focus on a broad, strategic orientation
Proven leadership experience, including showing that you can effectively communicate to your team and to upper management
Highly creative and curious with ability to work within practical boundaries
Billions of people around the world rely on AccuWeather's proven Superior Accuracy™ across our consumer digital platforms.
Ability to interact and communicate with product, design, and development teams of all levels, backgrounds and distributed staffing models
Comfortable prioritizing pipelines of work based on a strategic evaluation of goals and implications
Exceptional communication skills
Driving collective decisions, while being comfortable making independent decisions and thinking through all product ramifications
Flexibility and adaptability to rapidly changing environment

Nice to have

As this is a function works closely with our Forecasting systems and the meteorological teams
a B.S. in Meteorology or Atmospheric Sciences is preferred.

Benefits

Develop a strategy and make creative recommendations to expand our product vision across the portfolio.

Company info

AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved over 12,000 lives, prevented injury to over 100,000 people, and saved companies tens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making.
AccuWeather.com is the #1 weather destination and one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world, and our award-winning AccuWeather app delivers detailed real-time forecasts to millions of smartphones.
The AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW® reach an audience of over 125 million on cable and streaming platforms including DirecTV, Charter Communications - Spectrum, Verizon, Philo, Frndly TV, Comcast's Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream, Roku, Xumo, Rockbot, LG, and Amazon Freevee.
AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally.
Joel Myers, Founder and Executive Chairman, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the "father of modern commercial meteorology." Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been called "the most accurate man in weather" by The New York Times and has been recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur's Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs.
AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.
AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.
If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to human.resources@accuweather.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

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