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Wiley is hiring a Sr. Director, Product Management to lead the Atypon Publishing Product and Platforms team. This role involves driving the product roadmap, leading product managers, collaborating with engineering and business stakeholders, and innovating digital products to advance scholarly publishing platforms with a focus on user engagement and emerging technologies.

Highlights

Lead product management for Wiley's Atypon Experience Platform and its digital publishing products.
Create and execute strategic product roadmaps and collaborate across teams to align product vision with organizational goals.
Engage customers to gather feedback and incorporate insights into product development and innovation.
Manage a team of product managers focused on user experience and admin tools.
Work closely with engineering to develop scalable, user-friendly platform features and leverage market technical trends.
Conduct A/B testing and user interviews to validate and improve products throughout the lifecycle.
Required skills include experience in scholarly publishing product management, Agile/Scrum methodologies, strong analytics, and stakeholder communication.
Bachelor's degree is required.
Compensation range is $154,000 to $226,667 USD.
Focus on scholarly, academic, and commercial publishing customers worldwide with ambition to integrate future technologies like Generative AI workflows.

Sr. Director, Product Management Full Description

Sr. Director, Product Management

Remote

Remote, DC, USA

Full time

Job Description:Sr. Director, Product Management

Location:Remote, DC, USA

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About the Role:

The Atypon product team within Wiley Research is seeking a driven and innovative product leader for our Publishing Product and Platforms team.

Our team is focused on delivering digital products that anticipate and address the rapidly evolving needs of scholarly, academic, and commercial publishers. This is an opportunity to lead product management for Wiley's Atypon Experience Platform, on which over 50% of the world’s English language research is published. As part of this responsibility, you will work to grow the number of interactions with Atypon Experience Platform, generating scale that ties into our exciting plans to connect audiences with partners and driving platform innovation and future customer needs, such as Generative AI workflows and product strategies.

How you will make an impact:

Strategic Planning

Create, curate, and drive the product roadmap for Atypon.
Collaborate with Product Managers across Partner Solutions to define strategic product vision and roadmaps to deliver upon strategy.
Lead a team of product managers who are responsible for Atypon, its user experience, and its admin tools.
Engage with customers to develop insights and feedback loops to inform product roadmaps. Present product roadmap, results, and analysis to Wiley executives, partner solutions, customers, and others.
Partner with business stakeholders, product managers, and customers to develop innovative future-facing products and feature needs.
Partner with delivery and operations colleagues, engineering colleagues, and product management colleagues to ensure efficient operation and release of products across Product and Platforms.

Technical Leadership

Work closely with engineering teams to solve and develop core platform value that customers can easily use to implement and self-serve.
Identify technical trends in the market and how they might be incorporated into our platform or how we can leverage them to support customers.

Stakeholder Management

Engage with internal and external stakeholders to align the product vision with organizational goals and customer needs.
Facilitate cross-functional team collaborations, especially with delivery teams, software engineers, and other product managers.
Alignment between user needs, technology development, and our product aspirations.
Drive industry connections with current and possible customers, staying on top of trends and evolving standards in the market.

Product Development & Testing

Manage the complete product life cycle, from ideation to launch, and evaluation.
Conduct A/B testing and user interviews to validate assumptions and improve features.
Optimized and market-tested product features characterized by their robustness, user-centricity, and alignment with market needs.

What we look for:

Proven experience in product management of scholarly publishing workflow products
Experience leading strategy development across a suite of products within the publishing industry and academic publishing.
Required Skills, Knowledge and Characteristics
Deep understanding of research assessment user needs and technology opportunities
Familiarity with Agile and Scrum methodologies.
Strong analytic skills, comfortable with A/B testing and data-driven decision-making.
Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills
Bachelor's degree

About Wiley:

Wiley is a trusted leader in research and learning, our pioneering solutions and services are paving the way for knowledge seekers as they work to solve the world's most important challenges. We are advocates of advancement, empowering knowledge-seekers to transform today's biggest obstacles into tomorrow's brightest opportunities.

With over 200 years of experience in publishing, we continue to evolve knowledge seekers' steps into strides, illuminating their path forward to personal, educational, and professional success at every stage. Around the globe, we break down barriers for innovators, empowering them to advance discoveries in their fields, adapt their workforces, and shape minds.

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.

We are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. Our values support courageous teammates, needle movers, and learning champions all while striving to support the health and well-being of all employees. We offer meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads down work and professional development, and through a robust body of employee programing we facilitate a wide range of opportunities to foster community, learn, and grow.

We are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package. The range below represents Wiley's good faith and reasonable estimate of the base pay for this role at the time of posting roles either in the United Kingdom, Canada or USA. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall within the range, however the ultimate salary offered for this role may be higher or lower and will be set based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.

When applying, please attach your resume/CV to be considered.

Salary Range:154,000 USD to 226,667 USD#LI-JG1

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