Senior Product Manager

Job Description:

Dow Jones is hiring an experienced Senior Product Manager with expertise in platform development and a deep understanding of the energy and commodities markets, specifically coal, metals, mining, and materials critical to the energy transition. As part of the OPIS (Oil Price Information Service) Energy Group, you will play a pivotal role in driving the strategic direction of digital platforms that cater to clients in these markets. You will combine your market expertise and product management experience to build scalable, innovative solutions that meet evolving industry needs.

In addition to product management duties, you will play the role of business owner in the IT development process, ensuring that business goals are translated into technical requirements and guiding the development process to align with the company’s broader objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Lead the vision, strategy, and execution of platform development, focusing on coal, metals, mining, and transition material markets.

• Industry Insight: Utilize your deep understanding of the energy sector to create market-driven solutions, addressing both current challenges and anticipating future trends, particularly with regard to sustainability.

• Roadmap Development: Design and execute the product roadmap with both short-term enhancements and long-term innovations, ensuring platform evolution aligns with market shifts.

• Business Ownership in IT Development: Act as the business owner throughout the IT development process, translating business needs into technical requirements and ensuring alignment between business objectives and the platform’s development.

• Cross-functional Collaboration: Manage and collaborate with teams across engineering, UX, data science, and sales to ensure successful product development and delivery.

• User Experience Advocacy: Ensure the platform offers intuitive, user-friendly experiences that deliver actionable insights.

• Energy Transition: Focus on developing products that support the industry’s move towards greener technologies, with a specific emphasis on transition materials.

• Data-Driven Solutions: Leverage Dow Jones’ extensive data resources to provide clients with real-time, high-value analytical tools for critical decision-making.

• Revenue Growth: Contribute to business growth by identifying new market opportunities and enhancing existing product offerings.

Qualifications:

• Experience: Product management experience, with a strong focus on platform development, SaaS products, or data-driven solutions.

• Industry Knowledge: Proven expertise in energy, commodities, or related sectors, specifically in coal, metals, mining, and materials relevant to the energy transition.

• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale digital products from concept to launch with a focus on innovation and user experience.

• Business Ownership in IT Development: Proven ability to act as a business owner within the IT development process, ensuring alignment of technical and business goals.

• Collaboration: Strong leadership skills with the ability to work cross-functionally in an agile environment.

• Technical Proficiency: Experience with agile product development processes, with a clear focus on customer needs.

• Communication: Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills.

About the Team:

OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides price transparency across the energy, chemicals, and renewables markets. OPIS enables customers to buy and sell energy commodities with confidence, improve operational efficiency with deep insights, future outlooks, price discovery, and consultation from a celebrated team of subject matter experts. We do this through multi-platform access to reliable pricing, real-time news reporting, powerful software tools, analytics, and educational events. Our commitment to reliability is reinforced by personalized customer service and constant innovation. OPIS listens to what the energy community needs and responds with flexible and easy-to-use products.

About Our Organization:

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile, and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world’s largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron’s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor’s Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS, and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

Our Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans

• Paid Time Off

• Retirement Plans

• Comprehensive Insurance Plans

• Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources

• Education Benefits

• Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support

• Commuter Transit Program

• Subscription Discounts

• Employee Referral Program

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Business Area:

Dow Jones - OPIS

Job Category:

Software Product Engineering

Union Status:

Non-Union role