About the job

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About the Role:

The Product Manager is responsible for researching, understanding, and documenting the needs of product users / stakeholders to support the specification, design, development, and release of product features. Product Managers work in close collaboration with Product Designers, Business Analysts, Software Engineers, and other Product Managers to produce well-written specifications and designs that support product development. Ensure alignment with other PMs for a synergistic rollout of new functionality, consistent with overall product strategy. Product Managers also support the Director, Editorial Solutions and appropriate Marketing, Documentation, Customer Care, Account Management, and Sales teams to ensure successful product releases. This person must be comfortable serving as a product ambassador, both internally and with external partners and clients.

As part of the Workflow Solutions Department, this role focuses on developing solutions to editorial workflow problems for Wiley and external publisher partners.

This role is a great opportunity for peer review and editorial operations experts with project management experience who are keen to transition to a product development role or for experienced product managers who would like to focus on business and product strategy in the publishing space.

Collaboration with multiple stakeholders and team members to execute problem vetting and validation exercises is essential for initiating any requirements documentation and prioritization process. This work will be instrumental in strategic product decisions and solution design to ensures quality delivery.

How you will make an impact:

• Proactively develop a deep understanding of the problems users are trying to solve, problems affecting the business value streams and business KPIs
• Work with multiple stakeholders, business analysts and UX/Designers to plan and execute product, user and market research and analysis activities
• Document and present findings from project research activities to provide valuable insights that facilitate strategic product decisions
• Look for product and value propositions that support business objectives and use a data driven approach to building a business case for presentation
• Document business requirements to facilitate solution design
• Lead and coordinate cross functional project teams to produce outputs that document the early lifecycle stages of product development
• Contribute to the design and development of a long-term product vision and strategy
  
  

What we look for:

• A strong desire to innovate tools to support scientific peer review
• Experience in science, research, or publishing with a confident and broad understanding of the publishing process
• A strong understanding of the online publishing platform and peer review tools marketplace
• Ability to effectively communicate and present complex topics to a wide-ranging audience
• A basic understanding of Agile development methodology
• The ability to communicate effectively and work within a team environment is critical
• A strong understanding of product design is ideal
• Experience in applying UX research methods, web analytics, A/B testing, user testing, competitor analysis and metric definition
• Experience working in fast moving companies in high-growth mode as well as more complex environments involving multiple divisions and more stakeholders is ideal.
• An understanding of highly scalable, reliable, distributed systems is advantageous
• Experience of working with teams distributed across various locations
  
  

About Wiley:

Enabling Discovery, Powering Education, Shaping Workforces.

We clear the way for seekers of knowledge: illuminating the path forward for research and education, tearing down barriers to society’s advancement, and giving seekers the help they need to turn their steps into strides.

Wiley may have been founded over two centuries ago, but our secret to success remains the same: our people. We are willing to challenge the status quo, move the needle, and be innovative. Wiley’s headquarters are located in Hoboken, New Jersey, with operations across the globe in more than 40 countries.

Wiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants and treat all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual’s status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Wiley is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact tasupport@wiley.com for assistance.

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