Product Leader - Digital Panels

Are you a visionary product leader with a passion for building transformative products from the ground up? Nielsen is seeking a highly experienced and strategic Product Leader to join our growing product team. In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in defining, developing, and launching innovative products that address complex user needs and drive significant business impact. You will lead cross-functional teams, from ideation through execution, ensuring our products meet market demands and exceed customer expectations, with a strong emphasis on robust product fundamentals, strategic foresight, and data-driven decision making.

What You'll Do:

• Product Strategy & Vision: Develop and articulate a comprehensive product vision and strategy for your assigned product area, aligning it with the company's overall strategic goals. Identify significant market opportunities, evolving customer needs, and complex competitive landscapes to inform product direction.
• Portfolio Ownership: Drive strategy and execution across multiple related product areas, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives and maximizing cross-product synergies.
• Roadmap Ownership: Own and manage the product roadmap, strategically prioritizing features and initiatives based on long-term strategic value, significant customer impact, and technical feasibility. Clearly communicate the roadmap to executive stakeholders across the organization.
• Requirements Definition: Translate complex user needs, intricate business requirements, and advanced technical capabilities into detailed product specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Collaborate closely with engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer success teams throughout the product lifecycle. Facilitate effective communication and critical decision-making to ensure successful product delivery.
• Market & Customer Research: Conduct thorough market research, competitive analysis, and in-depth customer interviews to gain profound insights into user behavior, critical pain points, and emerging trends.
• Data-Driven Performance & Iteration: Define key performance indicators (KPIs) for your products, rigorously monitor performance, and leverage advanced data-driven insights to identify areas for substantial improvement and guide future iterations. Comfort with analyzing and interpreting highly complex datasets is essential.
• Stakeholder Management: Build strong, influential relationships with internal and external stakeholders, effectively managing expectations and communicating critical product updates and progress to senior leadership.
• Mentorship: Actively mentor junior and senior product managers, sharing advanced best practices and significantly contributing to the growth and development of the entire product team.