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via Adzuna posted_at: 10 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
Mobile Product Manager - Weather Underground • Full-time Company Description... The Weather Channel is the world's leading cross-platform media company with a portfolio that includes The Weather Channel television network, TWC digital properties (weather.com, mobile and tablet applications) and Weather Services International (WSI). Headquartered in Cobb County since 1982, The Weather Channel brand has connected millions of consumers by providing Mobile Product Manager - Weather Underground
• Full-time
Company Description...

The Weather Channel is the world's leading cross-platform media company with a portfolio that includes The Weather Channel television network, TWC digital properties (weather.com, mobile and tablet applications) and Weather Services International (WSI). Headquartered in Cobb County since 1982, The Weather Channel brand has connected millions of consumers by providing the most accurate weather forecasts, 24 hours a day. Seen in more than 100 million U.S. households, The Weather Channel network is one of the most widely-distributed cable networks. The Weather Channel online properties reach 60 million unique Web consumers each month. This includes 32 million consumers monthly through weather.com on mobile Web and mobile apps. TWC has the No.1 app on all smartphones and is the second most used app on all smartphones. WSI provides business-to-business weather services to media, aviation, marine and energy sector.
Job Description

JOB SUMMARY: Weather Underground is the world's first weather site on the Internet. Our mission is to make global weather data universally accessible, meaningful, and useful. Come help save lives and join our cause! We're looking for a passionate Mobile Product Manager to join us in our San Francisco office. The Product Manager is chief imagineer and will be responsible for creating new and engaging customer experiences with the next generation of native mobile apps. He/She will collaborate with developers, UX designers, and marketing teams during the design and development process to bring apps to life. The Product Manager is expected to innovate on the customer's behalf, understand core product management principles, and be agile.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Own the product, Wow our customers.

o Identify customers and create end to end customer experiences.

o Create a product vision and paths to get there.

o Answer the What and Why of the user stories and product investments; back up claims with quantitative and qualitative data as available.

o Own and groom the product backlog.

o Be accountable for the performance of the product with analytics.

o Proactively research and understand how our audience interacts with our products and make use of this knowledge in the development of best possible user experiences.

2. Enable the Development Team.

o Run ahead of development to create and validate user stories and acceptance criteria.

o Prioritize and establish the minimum viable product for each iteration.

o Create wireframes and mock-ups and work with UX/UI designers to finalize the composition.

o Ensure all the user stories and UX/UI designs are locked and loaded for sprint planning.

o Support the scrum master and development team to realize the product as you envisioned it.

o Create and execute support model for apps.

o Take customer and stakeholder feedback to iterate on.

4. Innovate Mobile Designs, Business Models and Technologies.

o Create and research mobile design ideas and technologies and determine if they should be used in Wunderground products.
Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS:

1. Skills, knowledge and abilities

o Customer empathy and the ability to uncover and translate latent wants and needs of the customer into product design.

o Ability to ideate new product concepts, build a business case for why we should or shouldn't pursue an opportunity.

o Research and analyze product and business opportunities.

o Ability to pull and process large amounts of data and distill it to meaningful conclusions.

o Ability to prioritize, lead and influence key product decisions.

o Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams and successfully launch products; collaborative.

o Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.

o Strong attention to detail; capable of meeting the highest standards of quality in workmanship.

o Dependable: ability to work independently and manage priorities to meet milestones.

o Master storyteller with innate curiousity.

o Drives for results; action oriented.

2. Experience

o 3+ years of product management experience.

o Must have designed or built a mobile app.

o Preferred educational level: Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Business, or related field.

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via Tarta.ai posted_at: 9 days agoschedule_type: Full-time
Company Description The Weather Company, an IBM Business, is the world's largest private weather enterprise, helping people make informed decisions - and take action - in the face of weather. The company offers the most accurate, personalized and actionable weather data and insights to millions of consumers and thousands of businesses via Weather's API, its business solutions division, and its... own digital products from The Weather Channel (weather.com) Company Description

The Weather Company, an IBM Business, is the world's largest private weather enterprise, helping people make informed decisions - and take action - in the face of weather. The company offers the most accurate, personalized and actionable weather data and insights to millions of consumers and thousands of businesses via Weather's API, its business solutions division, and its... own digital products from The Weather Channel (weather.com) and Weather Underground (wunderground.com).

The company delivers up to 26 billion forecasts daily. Its products include a top weather app on all major mobile platforms globally; the world's largest network of personal weather stations; a top-20 U.S. website; the seventh most data-rich site in the world; one of the world's largest IoT data platforms; and industry-leading business solutions.

Weather Means Business . The world's biggest brands in aviation, energy, insurance, media, and government rely on The Weather Company for data, technology platforms and services to help improve decision-making and respond to weather's impact on business. For more, visit www.theweathercompany.com.

Job Description

The Weather Systems Group within The Weather Company, an IBM Business,

The Advertising Systems Analyst maintains a strategic understanding of requirements and expectations for Ad Technology (Ad Tech) controlled systems and devises and evolves system configuration and business processes to support those objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Design new technology solutions to support the advertising initiatives of The Weather Company.
• Participate in a cross-functional team including Ad Operations, Ad Products, Product Engineering and QA to implement and operationalize new advertising products.
• Configure The Weather Company platforms and systems to ensure proper delivery of ad products in both test and production environments.
• Document and maintain technical requirements, configurations, work-flows and QA test cases for the advertising solutions to be built and implemented.
• Perform Validation testing for the advertising solutions built into the TWC consumer platforms. Work with the QA group to ensure advertising solutions are properly implemented and functional across all platforms.
• Troubleshoot and drive to resolution production issues with advertising solutions inside The Weather Company digital platforms.
• Regularly communicate the status of new advertising initiatives, including release dates, challenges and production issues.
• Research the latest technology offerings of The Weather Channel vendor partners. Keep abreast of advertising technology and policy through the IAB and other industry bodies.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise:
• Knowledge of commonly used concepts, practices, and procedures as they relate to information systems administration and management.
• Working familiarity with project management and system/software development methodologies (Agile, KanBan, Scrum, etc.)
• Working familiarity with Internet/Web technology, including popular and emerging consumer technologies.
• Working knowledge of HTTP Proxy software (Charles, Fiddler) to identify and troubleshoot RESTful APIs.
• Working knowledge of client/server architectures.
• Working knowledge of database design and information architecture.
• Working knowledge of systems analysis and design / software development life cycle.
• Working knowledge of web analytics fundamentals (log file processing, cookies, user registration, etc.).

Qualifications

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• 2+ years scripting/programming experience.
• 2+ years applications or systems administration.
• 2+ years systems integration experience.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability working in high-volume ASP or enterprise web environment.
• Knowledge of JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and HTML.

Additional Information

WeatherFX is the "Weather Intelligent Marketing Platform", developed in 2011 to enable marketers to leverage TWC's robust proprietary weather data set to better inform marketing initiatives. Powered by real-time modeling based on multi-conditional weather data and client historical sales & business data, WeatherFX generates weather triggering models that are applied to trigger & target optimized marketing communications across desktop, mobile, tablet, cable and offline
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via ZipRecruiter schedule_type: Full-time
Company Description The Weather Company (TWC) is made up of The Weather Channel® television network, The Weather Channel digital properties, WSI, and Weather Underground. The Weather Channel is based in Atlanta and is seen in more than 100 million U.S. households. TWCC also operates Weatherscan®, a 24-hour all-local weather network; The Weather Channel Radio Network; and The Weather Channel HD... The most popular source of weather news and information, Company Description

The Weather Company (TWC) is made up of The Weather Channel® television network, The Weather Channel digital properties, WSI, and Weather Underground. The Weather Channel is based in Atlanta and is seen in more than 100 million U.S. households. TWCC also operates Weatherscan®, a 24-hour all-local weather network; The Weather Channel Radio Network; and The Weather Channel HD... The most popular source of weather news and information, TWCC properties reach 60 million monthly Web consumers (weather.com and Desktop) and 30 million monthly mobile users (mobile Web and applications) and offers the second most popular mobile app on all smartphones. WSI, headquartered in Andover, MA, primarily provides business-to-business weather services, particularly for the media, aviation, marine and energy sectors. Online weather service Weather Underground is based in San Francisco, and has developed the world's largest network of personal weather stations. TWCC is owned by a consortium made up of NBC Universal and the private equity firms The Blackstone Group and Bain Capital.

Since 1982, The Weather Channel has brought timely weather information to the world. Beginning as a 24-hour, 7 day television network devoted entirely to weather, it has expanded across several mediums to bring the breaking weather to its viewers and users.

Consistently rated in the Top Five for News, Entertainment, and Information web sites by Media Metrix (formerly PC Meter), weather.com features current conditions and forecasts for over 98,000 locations worldwide, along with local and regional radars. The site currently features weather-related news and lifestyle stories, which will be enhanced over time. Many maps and other features available on the domestic cable television are also at one's fingertips, along with weather-related news, educational material, a weather glossary, a storm encyclopedia, and seasonal features.

Job Description

The Campaign Manager is a key contributor to the Sales Organization, responsible for the successful execution of ad campaigns on all platforms. This is a multidisciplinary position, blending elements of technology, product configuration, analysis and troubleshooting, advertising, operations, and process control.

Responsibilities:
• Provide Strategic Guidance to Sales on ad product usage, campaign setup and performance expectations.
• Continuously monitor campaign performance and provide sales and clients with upsell and optimization recommendations. Ensure flawless campaign execution for all ad campaigns under management.
• Proactively monitor micro level traffic and provide optimization recommendations to maximize delivery and revenue for advertising campaigns.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships within the Sales organization.

Qualifications

Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Math, Engineering, Finance or similar discipline or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 3 years managing complex operational processes in online advertising or related industry.
• Strong project management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal presentation skills.
• Strong knowledge of campaign lifecycle management, ad sales process and familiarity with online advertising ecosystem; exceptional understanding of ad systems and technologies including Doubleclick, Operative, Yieldex or similar systems and technologies.

Additional Information

This role will support the Ad Sales employee population and we highly desire candidates to apply who have experience currently or in recent past supporting Ad Sales groups
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via Media & Entertainment Services Alliance schedule_type: Full-time
Weather Underground, a unit of IBM Watson, is seeking a Design Director to lead design strategy and oversee our team of skilled product designers. The Director will help Weather Underground improve its existing mobile and desktop products and help WU’s evolution into the Internet of Things industry. The Director will report directly to the Senior Vice President of Product Management. The best... candidates will have at least five to seven years Weather Underground, a unit of IBM Watson, is seeking a Design Director to lead design strategy and oversee our team of skilled product designers. The Director will help Weather Underground improve its existing mobile and desktop products and help WU’s evolution into the Internet of Things industry. The Director will report directly to the Senior Vice President of Product Management. The best... candidates will have at least five to seven years of experience managing a team of designers and should be proficient working in an Agile environment. They should be trained in digital design, be proficient in user experience research, have a mastery of classic design principles, and have a deep understanding of web and mobile technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

Manage team of designers and work closely with product managers to define the vision for our products and lead the design team to deliver output that fulfills the vision.

Establish and advance Weather Underground’s aesthetics, style, and tone.

Review and critique the design team’s output to ensure superb interaction and data visualization.

Participate and lead UI/UX activities in an Agile environment including user research, interviews and testing. Translate findings into usable, effective and efficient user experiences.

Test and validate hypotheses in a rapid Agile cadence.

Contribute to the professional growth and development of design employees by inspiring them to research, envision and design top-tier consumer products.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Bachelor’s Degree in User Experience Design, Graphic Design, or related discipline.

3+ years experience managing design teams in enterprise environments.

7+ years experience in user experience research and user interface design.

Excellent proficiency in Sketch, Adobe Creative Cloud/Suite, Invision, and other design tools.

Advanced understanding of design principles and their application.

Strong portfolio and work samples of user-centric design skills.

Deep understanding of web and mobile technologies

Ability to communicate clearly to inspire and lead direct reports and colleagues.

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

Master’s Degree in related design discipline.

Strong data visualization skills and data analysis experience.

Passion for meteorological and atmospheric sciences.

5+ yrs of iOS & Android product design experience.

Strong preference will be given to candidates who have experience in the Internet of Things field
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