International Product Manager

The International Product Manager will report to the Vice President of Product Development and be responsible to:
Responsibilities
The International Product Manager will play a key role in migrating our highly successful PredictoMobile service into international markets.

This position reports to the Vice President of Product Development.

The Product Manager will work with the Vice President to:
· Manage the development and launch of SMS-based, mobile games in international markets
· Write and maintain the product business plans
· Generate all business and functional requirements documents for the product
· Research international carrier and aggregator requirements and integrate into requirements documentation
· Document functional changes to the Predicto product to operate in an international environment
· Plan and coordinate our country-by-country roll-out
· Coordinate with vendors and contract staff to support the product
· Coordinate with other departments to document their needs with respect to the product, deliver the required functionality together with IT, ensure that needs are met at a business level, and coordinate their efforts from a product perspective
· Coordinate with IT to deliver phased software releases to support the product roll-out and evolution
· Manage prioritization of enhancements and new features post-launch
· Work with operations to monitor and analyze product performance daily
· Work with marketing to help generate offer copy and user messaging copy
· Specify feature changes or upgrades to achieve strategic goals
o Create requirements documents
o Create wire-frames
o Direct generation of artist’s renderings by creative group

Qualifications
Applicant must have experience with all of the following:
· Managing mobile interactive services
· International consumer business in Europe
· Requirements gathering
· Writing Business Requirements Documents, Functional Requirements Documents, and Business Plans
· Leading software products or services through development by IT

Specific skills required are:
· Hands-on, can-do attitude
· Excellent written and verbal communication ability
· Attention to detail
· Diligent follow-up and perseverance
· Advanced knowledge of MS Excel
· Project management
· Teamwork and interpersonal relations skills
· Comfort with numerical and statistical analysis
· Understanding of direct marketing concepts
· Understanding of subscription-based businesses
· Experience with international consumer business

Experience with any of the following are strong plusses:
· Internet-based lead generation
· Direct marketing
· Affiliate or Co-Registration marketing
· Mobile services in Europe
· Speak, read, and write one or more of: German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch
· Prior hands-on work with a major European SMS billing aggregator / gateway
· Sweepstakes administration, in Europe in particular
· Software development
· Managing the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
· Managing subscription-based products

Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience. NextWeb Media is an EOE employer.
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