Senior Product Manager – Rights Management

Senior Product Manager – Rights Management

Requirements

• Subject matter expertise in DRM
• 5 to 7 years experience working with engineering and design teams using agile software development
• Must be able to translate complex legal concepts for engineering and editorial audiences
• Familiarity with common editorial workflow concepts including content planning, content management, asset management, contributor management, contract lifecycle management, and content syndication
• Experience building AI-powered features in an internal tools setting, ideally to streamline and automate legal or editorial workflows
• Must be a proven relationship builder with strong verbal and written abilities who can diplomatically and effectively work across departmental and national boundaries
• Self-driven, motivated, and able to see projects and initiatives through to completion
• Experience supporting a distributed team and working across global time zones
• Experience using Atlassian planning tools including Jira and Confluence Wiki

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, project managers, and business analysts to translate organizational objectives and user needs into tactical projects and functional requirements
• Support weekly agile rituals for an internal engineering team
• Serve as the face of DRM technologies by communicating feature launches, triaging support issues, and presenting the roadmap to internal stakeholders
• Establish quarterly objectives and track performance against key results that map to the Publishing Platform’s overall goals
• Lead the effort to roll out Rightsline, our rights management solution, to each of Condé Nast’s 11 owned and operated markets and 19 distinct brands
• Lead the effort to incorporate AI into our DRM efforts
• Create and manage all product and project documentation, including product support documentation for our editorial and business staff
• Create and implement all DRM workflow training curricula for editorial employees including new user onboarding, new feature training, and ongoing refresher courses for already onboarded teams
• Serve as the primary liaison between the DRM engineering team and the Product Support group—you will be in charge of the support process for Rights-related workflows
• Consistently represent the user in all discussions with colleagues from engineering, design, and business operations
• Forge high-trust, low-drama relationships with other product teams working in the Content Planning, Content Management, Syndication, and Asset Management problem spaces
• Directly manage 1-2 early career product managers working on Digital Rights Management

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to speak multiple languages