Product Manager - eContent Curation

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The Job Details are as follows:
Come define the future of eContent needed to drive eResource management for libraries for helping libraries make their electronic collections available to their patrons! Based in OCLC’s headquarters in Dublin, Ohio, the Product Manager, eContent Curation is responsible for leading and implementing OCLC’s content curation strategy to ensure key library electronic collections are represented in WorldCat, including the WorldCat knowledge base and OCLC’s central index.

We’re looking for a skilled Product Manager who is not only passionate about defining strategies, solving problems, and building great products, but is enthusiastic about contributing to a highly collaborative team.

We partner with sales to understand customer needs, with engineers in planning and delivery of solutions, with marketing experts to release new solutions to our customers, and with business development and operations colleagues to continually secure metadata representing library collections worldwide.

About you: Your experience shows an eye for detail and you love defining and implementing content curation strategies to build products that people love to use.

You feel passionate about pushing a product forward that enables a best-in-class customer experience and you want to work with others who feel the same.

Responsibilities:

Product Strategy and Planning:


* Oversees market analysis and develops content strategy and business case.

Defines strategic content goals.


* Produces content roadmap


* Collaborates on release plans with Development


* Collaborates with finance in the production of content budgets and forecasts


* Develops pricing strategies and product positioning plans which contribute to maximizing product profitability

Leadership and Management:


* Provides leadership to cross-functional product workgroups.

Leads Product management meetings.

Resolves conflicts and drives consensus.


* Facilitates collaboration and communication and secures commitment between Development and Product Management and other divisional workgroups towards achievement of common goals.


* Develops and monitors progress on product ...