dataxu’s vision is to make marketing better using data science. The world’s top brands and agencies partner with dataxu to better understand and engage their customers across all available media formats, devices, channels, and buying modes. dataxu’s Demand-Side Platform (DSP) was recently named a Leader, including the highest score possible in the product strategy criteria in The Forrester Wave™: Omnichannel Demand-Side Platforms, Q2 2017 from Forrester Research Inc. In March, dataxu also received the top usability score among competitors in a head-to-head study by independent usability research firm, Validately.

The Associate Product Manager will have a high-visibility role within the company working with senior members of the Product Management team to drive strategy, innovate in a rapidly growing marketplace, and evangelize programmatic advertising within the industry.

On the Job

• Strive to understand the needs of the customer while helping bring forth enhancements to an established product.
• Advocate for customer and market needs using evidence-based reasoning (both qualitative and quantitative).
• Create product requirements for development process, including gathering market and internal cross-functional feedback, analysis, and efficient, detailed conveyance to engineering.
• Ensure smooth release process release notes, user documentation, and sales enablement such as training and crafting compelling demos.
• Evangelize our messages to customers and industry peers via events, webinars and other external communications channels.
• Manage one or more product initiatives through the full product lifecycle, from inception, to launch, to post-launch assessment and planning for the next cycle.
• Collaborate with product marketing and corporate marketing on competitive positioning and benefits-oriented collateral.
• Competitive intelligence and analysis, including win-loss, competitive positioning, and SWOT analysis.
• Occasionally travel for project & sales meetings and for internal meetings

About You

• BA/BS degree preferred or equivalent work experience
• Strong preference for experience in the digital media or adjacent industry, especially video, mobile, or brand advertising experience.
• Strong preference for experience in a software development company, especially Software as a Service (Saas) based company.
• Passion for getting things done in a fast-moving, complex environment
• Experience analyzing product, customer, market dynamics and opportunities.
• Outstanding communication skills, and in particular the ability to convert complex ideas and quantitative data into simple messages.
• Ability to solicit and synthesize customer and market feedback for actionable recommendations on positioning, messaging, and product development.

Day to Day at the xu

Life at dataxu is truly unique. From Day 1, through an industry leading employee integration program, we work hard to ensure that our new xukeepers (dataxu – get it?) understand our values and what behaviors contribute to a successful career here at dataxu.

Here’s what we are all about:

Free semi-monthly lunches, happy hours and costume competitions? Yeah, we’ve got all that. We’re totally obsessed with our customers, our product, our people and innovation—all of which tie right in with our corporate values. We Collaborate across all teams and global offices. Our customers Trust us because we put transparency and their needs first. Innovation is part of everything that we do. Excellence is our standard mode of operation. And of course, Customer Obsession. We wouldn’t be here without our customers! So, interested in working here yet? Visit dataxu.com to learn more!