Senior Technical Product Manager - Audacy, Inc.

Introduction:

Audacy, Inc. is a leading multi-platform audio entertainment and publishing organization. Our mission is to provide discoverable, entertaining and accessible auditory experiences to people through our online platform. 

The Audacy Enterprise Data team is looking for the right person to join us. At Audacy, you’ll contribute to our growing enterprise data team, platforms, infrastructure, insights, architecture, and governance. 

We are seeking a highly experienced and collaborative Sr. Technical Product Manager, to join our data product team focusing on data product creation and driving the development and enhancement of our data business solutions, platforms, and infrastructure products.

You'll have a chance to focus in areas where you’re already skilled and take on new challenges over time. Our distributed team has a fun and inclusive environment with a commitment to work life balance.

Summary:

The Sr. Technical Product Manager is responsible for managing the development and execution of the company's data products with a focus on platform, infrastructure, and governance data product strategy, planning, and execution. You will also be developing a product backlog and participating in quarterly planning for business solutions data products. This includes working with your data product leadership and stakeholders to define the domain’s data product strategy. You will collaborate to ensure value capture for best-in-class data products that map to the broader enterprise data strategy of building once to benefit many. This position will actively engage with  a data engineering team focused on building and managing the data platform, infrastructure, data products, and governance products. The Sr. Technical Product Manager will also be responsible for working with cross-functional teams to ensure that data is used effectively across the organization in close partnership with data engineering, data science, and strategic insights teams.

Location: Open to both hybrid & remote. If hired near Denver, New York, or Philadelphia hybrid will be required. 

Responsibilities:

Lead Data Product Strategy & Development

• Define data products with leadership alignment across business solutions, platforms, infrastructure, architecture, and governance teams.
• Oversee end-to-end product development, from ideation, through development, to launch and optimization, ensuring data quality is always trusted.
• Optimize and maintain a strategic product roadmap for data platforms and infrastructure, prioritizing features and enhancements based on stakeholder needs, including software engineering, direct-to-consumer, and revenue advertising teams.
• Manage data lifecycle (collection, storage, quality, analysis) for all domains.
• Ensure data governance, security, privacy, and compliance.
• Stay current on data technologies and trends.

• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

Drive Collaboration & Product Performance

• Build a collaborative and cross-functional team environment that values diverse perspectives and ideas.

• Gather internal stakeholder feedback to inform product improvements while heavily leaning into high value and prioritization.

• Partner with stakeholders - leadership, engineering, data science, business - to gather requirements and align with goals.
• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure that data are used effectively across the organization with the focus on one product to many use cases.
• Create and maintain the data business solutions, platform and infrastructure roadmap.
• Continuously monitor and optimize performance, scalability, and cost of data products.

Manage Resources & Communication

• Ensure your leadership and stakeholders are aligned to priorities and resourcing needs through regular quarterly planning and continuous planning cycles.

• Effectively communicate plans, updates, and metrics to internal and external stakeholders including objectives and key results (OKRs) progress.
• Collaborate with external vendors and partners as needed to integrate technology solutions and tools.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, or a related field is required, with a Masters degree preferred
• 5+ years of experience in data product management, with a focus on platforms, infrastructure, and governance preferred
• 5+ years of experience in data management, data engineering, or a related field
• Proven track record of successfully leading and developing high-performance data products from ideation to successful launch and maintenance
• Experience with data warehousing, data lakes, and data pipelines, with experience in Snowflake, AWS, Google Big Query, Airflow preferred
• 2+ years experience with data governance and security preferred
• Experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, and Hive
• Experience with data visualization and reporting tools
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Deep knowledge of data technologies, tools, and best practices
• Ability to think strategically and drive product innovation
• Results-oriented mindset with a passion for data-driven decision-making

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and bonus structure
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
• Generous vacation and paid time off policy
• Professional development opportunities
• Collaborative and innovative work environment

The anticipated starting salary range for New York or Denver-based individuals expressing interest in this position is $140,000-$165,000. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, as well as internal and external equity.

Audacy, Inc. (NYSE: AUD; OTC: AUDA) is a leading multi-platform audio content and entertainment company with the country’s best collection of local music, news and sports brands, a premium podcast creator, major event producer, and digital innovator. Audacy engages 200 million consumers each month, bringing people together around content that matters to them. Learn more at www.audacyinc.com, Facebook (Audacy Corp), X (@AudacyCorp), LinkedIn (@Audacy-Inc), Instagram (@lifeataudacy) and Threads (@Audacy_Corp).

Audacy is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Audacy affords equal employment opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of their race, color, religion or religious creed, sex/ gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (over 40), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, or other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, and to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. Consistent with our commitment to equal employment opportunity, we provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities who need assistance in applying electronically for a position with Audacy, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship. To request a reasonable accommodation for this purpose, please call 1-610-660-5614. Please note that this phone number is to be used solely to request an accommodation with respect to the online application process. Calls for any other reason will not be returned. Reasonable accommodation requests are considered on a case-by-case basis.