Sr. Manager, IMDb Product Management/Marketing - Amazon Print E-mail
Job ID: 163843 Location: US-WA-Seattle
Posted Date: 1/11/2012 Company: IMDb.com, Inc.
Job Description

IMDb (www.imdb.com) is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 57 million unique US visitors each month. This is a key leadership position who will extend IMDb’s lead as the premier movie, TV and celebrity site on the web by driving innovation and strategic planning for IMDb through the management of the global consumer websites, including product management, editorial and marketing.

 

As a product leader for IMDb, you will manage a team and be responsible for driving significant growth of IMDb’s consumer businesses through defining the overall product and marketing vision and strategy, product design and development, as well as driving continuous improvement and operational excellence. This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to leverage your understanding of the high-tech and media industries.  The successful candidate will continue to grow the scope and diversity of IMDb Consumer team.

 

Our ideal candidate will have deep experience in both consumer marketing and product management, demonstrated ability to drive traffic and new customer acquisition in both the mobile and online channels, proven ability to build and manage a high-performance team, and a passion for entertainment products and services.  You will create and execute on a comprehensive marketing plan that builds awareness of and drives traffic to our websites and mobile apps.  You will own creation and implementation of our brand, positioning, and editorial voice.  You will work at both the strategic level (generating bold and innovative ideas for growth) and at the tactical level (analyzing traffic and user data, and solving problems).

 

Key Strategic Objectives

  • Ensure that IMDb provides the best customer experience for movies, TV, celebrity content and the best experience for advertisers on the IMDb family of sites.
  • Lead a product management team and establish the long term global product strategy around our core category of Movies and TV as well as Video and expansions into Celebrity and other new categories; setting product goals and strategies; develop roadmap and effectively balance new product efforts in a fast-changing and competitive space.
  • Create and grow a marketing function to drive brand awareness, consumer acquisition, traffic, increased usage and revenue.
  • Work closely with the Monetization and Sales teams on developing engaging advertising products as well as new and diversified revenue streams.
  • Establish an undeniable IMDb Editorial voice in the industry.
  • Improve the customer experience on IMDb
  • Expand the IMDb footprint to social networking.
  • Work with Mobile teams to expand IMDb’s reach in emerging platforms
  • Develop strong and strategic studio relationships
  • Build relationships and opportunities to align with the broader Amazon organization including Amazon Instant Video, LOVEFiLM, Mobile Apps, Kindle Fire, Marketing/Traffic, and other Digital Products teams.
Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree
  • At least 6 years of product management or marketing experience in the Internet, media and high-tech industries
Preferred Qualifications
  • A proven track record of setting and exceeding aggressive goals; evidence of the ability to consistently make good decisions through a combination of analysis, experience, and judgment
  • A high level of business acumen, including successful P&L management
  • The ability to think strategically, anticipate future trends, develop product roadmaps, and deliver on those plans
  • The ability to hire and retain top performers, and lead or direct cross-functional teams across multiple geographical locations
  • A thorough understanding of a wide range of business functions and systems, including strategic planning, business development, budgeting, business analysis, finance, software development, and public relations
  • The ability to communicate vision and drive various constituencies to execution and work seamlessly with both technical and business teams
  • Ability to think and influence both quantitatively and qualitatively
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Demonstrated ability and willingness to roll up sleeves and execute to get the job done
  • Ability to work successfully in an ever-changing environment with competing priorities
  • Demonstrated analytical skills; comfortable with a P&L, business trend analysis and forecasting
  • Demonstrated ability to successfully influence multiple stakeholders and lead cross functional teams across geographies and business units
  • Demonstrated track record of creative problem solving; thinks big, starts small, grows fast
  • Strong attention to detail, excellent organization skills, and ability to manage multiple projects /responsibilities

 

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