Product Manager – Data & Decision Support

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🕒 5 days ago

🐻 Alaska, Hawaii, +5 more states – Remote

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💵 $80k - $95k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

✅ Product Manager

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Macmillan

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1001 - 5000 employees

📱 Media

📚 Education

Media • Education

Macmillan is a leading global publishing company and home to a wide range of imprints that publish adult and children’s fiction, nonfiction, and educational materials. Part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, Macmillan also operates Macmillan Learning and Macmillan Education, providing interactive course solutions, higher education content, language learning, and school curriculum publishing across dozens of countries. The company focuses on supporting authors, educators, students, and institutions with world-class content and digital learning tools.

📋 Description

• Support discovery efforts to identify problems related to data, reporting, and decision-making workflows across internal stakeholder groups. • Gather and synthesize qualitative and quantitative inputs (e.g., stakeholder feedback, system data, operational metrics) to help inform product opportunities. • Assist in identifying patterns, pain points, and areas of opportunity across systems and workflows. • Contribute insights to support prioritization and roadmap discussions. • Support validation of potential solutions through data analysis and stakeholder feedback. • Support backlog management for internal data and system initiatives, ensuring work items are clearly documented, organized, and up to date. • Gather and synthesize inputs required for prioritization, including business value, stakeholder needs, effort, dependencies, and risks. • Help ensure backlog items are well-defined with clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and success metrics. • Support prioritization processes by preparing materials, surfacing trade-offs, and maintaining visibility into competing requests. • Track and communicate changes in priorities, helping maintain alignment across stakeholders and reduce confusion or rework. • Support execution of product initiatives in partnership with Engineering, Data, Analytics, and Business Systems teams. • Assist in translating business needs into user stories, workflows, and requirements documentation. • Track progress, risks, and dependencies across initiatives, ensuring work stays aligned and on track. • Proactively surface blockers, gaps, or risks, and escalate as needed to support timely resolution. • Support testing, validation, and rollout of new capabilities to ensure solutions meet defined requirements.

🎯 Requirements

• 1–3 years of experience in a product, operations, analytics, or related role involving cross-functional collaboration and problem-solving. • Demonstrated ability to support execution of cross-functional initiatives, managing multiple workstreams and deadlines effectively. • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to structure and manage complex information. • Ability to gather, synthesize, and clearly communicate insights from qualitative and quantitative inputs. • Comfort working with data to inform decisions (e.g., experience with analytics tools, basic SQL, or similar). • Ability to work effectively with cross-functional stakeholders and incorporate diverse inputs into problem-solving. • Demonstrated ability or interest in understanding how systems, data, and workflows connect across an organization. • Comfort operating in ambiguous environments, with a willingness to take initiative and learn. • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex concepts for different audiences. • Experience in applying AI, automation, or advanced analytics to improve workflows and decision-making.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive pay and bonus plan • Generous Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision) • Contributions to your 401k retirement account through Fidelity • Generous paid time off, sick time, floating holidays, and paid holidays • Employee Assistance Program, Education Assistance Program • 100% employer-paid life and AD&D insurance • And much more!