Product Manager

At Choreograph, we deliver data-driven products and solutions that make advertising work better for people. Choreograph, an affiliate of GroupM, is a global data products and technology company, purpose-built for an era that demands a new approach to data management, usage, and brand growth. Data is the fuel that powers growth. The companies who best leverage data are creating unbeatable advantages over their competitors while simultaneously connecting with customers more effectively. Our goal is to help future-focused businesses use their data in ways that meet savvy customers’ expectations while building trust and understanding.

As a Product Manager at Choreograph, you will play a crucial role in shaping and delivering the roadmap for a suite of product capabilities, with a primary focus on the campaign governance space. Your responsibilities will encompass taxonomy template creation, best practice checks and automation of ad campaign QA and creation.

The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of the advertising ecosystem, with practical experience in digital media. Leveraging this experience and your product management expertise, you will collaborate closely with the Product Director to drive the growth and development strategy for the next generation of our campaign governance product, setting a new standard for Choreograph and WPP companies.

As a member of the growing product and engineering team, you will effectively contribute to the definition and oversee the delivery of the product roadmap, ensuring that the engineering team you oversee executes effectively and drives value creation, always staying focused on delivering against resource, time, and scope constraints. To achieve this, you will build strong relationships with the engineering team and establish a structured process for delivering best-in-class technology. You will work directly with them daily, allocate and prioritise their workload to reach business goals and to incrementally deliver value. You will deliver effective project management, ensuring milestones are achieved and deadlines are met by all involved stakeholders.

You will engage with stakeholders across multiple business functions, specialisms and locations, collect quantitative and qualitative feedback from them, transform the insights gained through user and stakeholder feedback into feature requirements. You will involve specialist teams (including design, enablement, training, support) at the appropriate stages of requirements refinement, solution design, delivery and deployment. You will continuously measure the value of the product backlog items and iteratively refine and prioritise the product backlog based on the data, insights and changing priorities. Instill best practices of Product Management as a discipline across the team and identify improvement areas; proactively look for process and framework improvements and enhancements. Adapt and optimise use of relevant technology and tools to support effective and efficient product management work.

What you’ll need:

• Experience in product management.
• A strong understanding of how agencies and advertisers use data and technology solutions to support their business operations and strategies.
• Experience in and/or understanding of media agency services, deliverables, workflows and processes; familiarity with key tech products and platforms used in planning, activation, reconciliation and measurement of advertising campaigns.
• Experience in practicing various agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) to deliver technical products and data solutions.
• Ability to lead application of these practices amongst the team at scale.
• Readiness to work with a cross-functional and geographically dispersed team and stakeholder base.
• Proficiency in writing feature files in Behaviour Driven Development framework / Gherkin-based scenarios and requirements.
• Proven ability to document complex workflows using Business Process Model and Notation or a similar method.
• Proficiency in business analysis and familiarity with tools for visualization of workflows (e.g. draw.io) and data (e.g. Tableau, Looker), and UX tools (Figma, Sketch etc.) is a plus.
• Ability to successfully work with engineering teams, effectively coordinating and managing their efforts to deliver results to specification and on time.
• Demonstrable experience of being able to operate and lead in fast-paced and dynamic product-led environments.
• Strong experience in providing the necessary level of documentation of system specifications and requirements.
• Ability to quickly learn, understand, and work with new and emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions.
• A strong work ethic: ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines and deliver results.
• Strong organisational skills, ability to balance multiple priorities and manage your own workload.
• Fine-tuned communication, presentation and influencing skills; with an ability to think creatively and present in a manner that inspires and excites.

Success Attributes:

• High energy and passion for the job.
• Motivated, self-starter, self-reliant, resilient, and ambitious.
• Comfortable and thriving in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

If you are ready to be at the forefront of the AdTech industry, shaping its future, and driving success for both Choreograph and our clients, we encourage you to apply and join our team.

Choreograph is the beating heart of data inside WPP’s media investment group, GroupM, the world’s leading media investment company responsible for more than $60 billion in annual media investment. Discover more about Choreograph at www.choreograph.com.

GroupM and all its affiliates embrace and celebrate diversity, inclusivity, and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are a worldwide media agency network that represents global clients. The more inclusive we are, the more great work we can create together.

(Please note this is a UK based role and requires individuals to have the right to work in this location.)