Lead Product Manager
Job Description
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About the Role
As a Lead Product Manager on a 3-month contract, you’ll lead a team to deliver an MVP that uses AI to modernize a sports media company’s video archives. You’ll shape product strategy and execution, ensuring seamless integration of new technology to enable faster, more accurate search and retrieval of sports footage. There may be an opportunity for contract extension.
Responsibilities
- Define and communicate product vision, goals, and roadmap
- Lead cross-functional teams to build and deliver the MVP
- Organize discovery workshops and synthesize findings into requirements
- Oversee feature prioritization, project plans, and delivery timelines
- Ensure a user-centered interface for easy content search and retrieval
- Document workflows and train media teams on new systems
- Foster collaboration and best practices within the team
- Optional: mentor and coach other product managers
- Other duties as assigned
About You
Qualifications & Skills
- 6+ years of software product management experience
- Track record leading complex, end-to-end product delivery
- Strong knowledge of web technologies, APIs, and agile methods
- Excellent communication, organization, and stakeholder management skills
- Proficient with tools like Jira, Figma, and Miro
- Fast learner, self-starter, and team player
- (Bonus) Consulting experience, agile certification, or team leadership
At .Monks Technology Services, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.
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About Monks
Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.
Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.
We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.
