Lead Product Manager

Job Description

Who We Are

Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is the leading entertainment and sports agency, with global expertise in filmed and live entertainment, digital media, publishing, sponsorship sales and endorsements, media finance, consumer investing, fashion, trademark licensing, and philanthropy. Distinguished by its culture of collaboration and exceptional client service, CAA's diverse workforce identifies, innovates, and amplifies opportunities for the people and organizations that shape culture and inspire the world. The trailblazer of the agency business, CAA was the first to build a sports business, create an investment bank, launch a venture fund, found technology start-up companies, establish a philanthropic arm, build a business in China, and form a brand marketing services division, among other innovations. Named Most Valuable Sports Agency by Forbes for eight consecutive years, CAA represents more than 2,000 of the world's top athletes in football, baseball, basketball, hockey, soccer, in addition to coaches, on-air broadcasters, and sports personalities and works in the areas of broadcast rights, corporate marketing initiatives, social impact, and sports properties for sales and sponsorship opportunities. Founded in 1975, CAA is headquartered in Los Angeles, and has offices in New York, Nashville, Memphis, Chicago, Miami, London, Munich, Geneva, Stockholm, Shanghai, and Beijing, among other locations globally.

The Role

CAA is seeking a Lead Product Manager to join our Product Management team.

As CAA continues to expand its footprint in the sport and entertainment industry and grow globally, we have an increasing need to implement applications supporting our diverse customers - clients, agents, executives, assistants, and business partners. The Product Management team is focused on implementing technology products to drive productivity and effectiveness of our customers. We are obsessed about delivering intuitive products that embody CAA's culture.

We seek a curious, creative and experienced product manager. We are looking for individuals who are highly adaptable, who like solving problems and can drive clarity across diverse stakeholder groups. We seek a product manager who can lead products through the full lifecycle from defining the initial vision and product roadmap to implementing sustainable processes for ongoing product support and customer feedback.

Responsibilities
• Understand and embrace CAA's culture to ensure that it influences your product management practices.
• Quickly develop a deep understanding of products you will lead, including the business domains and workflows that these products support.
• Manage products from vision to launch (and beyond) delivering features iteratively to provide the expected business outcomes.
• Conduct market research to understand competition and define the products' positioning.
• Collaborate and coordinate with other product manager in the team to ensure alignment across products and product lines.
• Create product roadmaps and work closely with business leaders and our Product Development team to deliver new products and feature enhancements. Orchestrate the work of our engineers throughout the development cycle to deliver the highest quality products.
• Design simple and intuitive product experiences.
• Work closely with our corporate stakeholders to ensure that their compliance, data privacy, financial and HR requirements are represented during product development.
• Have deep understanding and empathy for customer needs, using user research and creative feedback mechanisms to validate product hypotheses and optimal product solutions. This will include working with our Customer Experience team to elicit their input on new product features.
• Be data-driven and use data to decide the best opportunities that deliver the most business impact.

Qualifications
• You have eight years plus of experience in product management, working either remotely or in-person.
• As a lead product manager, you should be accountable as the voice of the product(s) you own and the customers you support. You should have experience in managing products at all stages of the digital product life cycle (early-stage products, mature digital products, and late-stage products).
• While this is not a manager position, you can influence, collaborate with and lead others.
• You must have experience with managing products using Kanban practices.
• You must have experience in working with distributed version control system such as Git and GitHub.
• You should have experience in Kanban concepts.
• We expect proficiency with Chrome developer tools or similar in other browsers to test product features and troubleshoot bugs.
• You are curious and have a great ability to learn, especially about new business domains and workflows, and you are eager to expand your areas of expertise.
• As someone entrusted with sensitive company information, you consistently work to protect CAA's systems and data through your security awareness.

Where you'll be

This position will work remotely but must be able to work typical office hours. Occasional travel including company meetings and events is expected.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rnp35o-18-118-2-15-42 in your application.