Senior Product Manager

About Smart Steps

A specialist insights business within Telefónica, LUCA: Smart Steps uses anonymous and aggregated mobile data to help organizations make better business decisions based on real human behaviour. We process the masses of data created by the mobile network then analyse trends and patterns to help understand more about consumer behaviour.

Our Platform crunches over ten billion network events a day, every day, from Telefónica’s base of over 327 million anonymous customers in 21 countries worldwide—and we turn this into market-leading output for the public and private sectors, as well as driving additional insight around Telefonica’s internal value propositions.

Your Role

Senior  Product Manager (Product Team—LUCA: Smart Steps—Telefónica)

We are seeking a senior candidate with strong product management and analytical experience, a self-starter who thrives on intellectual problem solving. Working within an innovative product team this role has responsibility for driving innovative (big data) product enhancement, in a global context exploring new capability and developing solutions to maximise the Telelfonica data asset.

This is a genuinely fantastic opportunity to join potentially world changing business working in an exciting space. The Senior Product Manager will work with commercial, product, and platform colleagues to build new data driven product, solve varied data driven problems, and enhance existing products from platform creation to customer delivery.

You will lead product development in the private sector as a senior product owner across a number of different vertical Markets in a team of both internal/ external resources as you work within a team with global footprint. You will drive and expose customer value, with a focus on delivery and commercially led innovation.

Responsibilities

The role will be responsible for owning technical big data products in the Private Sector B2B environment; building analytical solutions, research, and product enhancement, to achieve innovation in the Big Data arena in line with company vision and values. The successful candidate must be able to understand and expose customer value, balancing data science solutions with pragmatic real world solutions, with a focus on commercial success.

A hands-on self starter is required to explore intellectually intriguing problems at the forefont of digital development in the domain of Population Movement, with particular regard to Out of Home advertising and Retail sectors. The Senior Product Manager will work to explore datasets and technologies new to the business to understand value/limitations, and develop solutions to maximise the potential of those datasets. You will guide analytical and operational teams to ensure delivery, and work side by side with take to market teams to ensure customer focus is at the heart of everything we do. The role will act as a global champion in our product capability:

• Manage end to end product lifecycle for an existing suite of products, exposing our value proposition to internal and external customers.
• Drive global strategy for your suite of products, including in the domain partner relationships, innovation and customer delivery.
• Understanding the analytical features of Smart Steps and other portfolio products, demonstrating these to prospect clients to support the Sales teams with the development of new business opportunities.
• Be a key part of a world class product development team, actively contributing to the development of new products.
• Come up with solutions to solve problems, working with new datasets and technologies.
• Extract information from data through analysis, and prepare storylines that will bring forward the most relevant insights to different industry verticals;
• Work proactively to understand new technologies and their relationship with existing capability. Understanding strengths and weakness of these technologies, and measuring quality there-in.
• Act as a knowledge expert for analytical colleagues working in an array of verticals (from transport planners to retail modellers)

Key Skills and Experiences Required

We are looking for a passionate candidate to join our Smart Steps Product team. You share our drive to innovate and lead the market. You are smart, keen and creative.

• Self-starter with a high degree of self-motivation to suit a Startup mentality, be prepared to deliver/explore a number of innovative firsts.
• Enthusiasm and passion for a new product offering and start-up business.
• Analytical Skill: previous experience in the delivery of technical ‘big data’ solutions.
• Problem Solving: Comfortable working complex datasets and products.
• Solid understanding of data and insight products and how these are used in client businesses to create value, capable of advising clients and being respected for this.
• Able to articulate and discuss complex datasets and techniques with colleagues from a variety of backgrounds
• Good understanding of the information services markets.
• Must have a ‘hands on’ approach to work load, a driven self starter.
• Experience with Agile project methodologies
• Ability to clearly communicate a complex product to varying stakeholders (internal and external)

• Entrepreneurial Drive: Passionate about innovation and business creation within a corporate framework.
• Understanding of private sector opportunities such as Out of Home Media, the advertising industry, or Retail.

• Desirable: Sector knowledge in transport modelling, route planning and travel demand management would be advantageous
• Desirable: Experience and understanding of Smart City and Smart Sensor technologies and offerings.
• Desirable: Experience of telephony (radio) networks, their infrastructure and technologies.
• Desirable: Expertise in big data product offerings.