Head of Product

Head of Product

Montvale, NJ

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Your role in our mission:
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Next Millennium Media (“NM”) is a fast-growing, technology-driven firm obsessed with maximizing website publishers’ revenue. Founded less than four years ago, NM has already become one of a handful of leaders in its industry. But our goal is to become number one within the next five years. The key to our success is a portfolio of superior, cutting-edge proprietary systems, as well as sales and account management teams laser-focused on delivering outstanding revenue and service to our website publisher clients.
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NM’s leadership team uses the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) to clarify its vision for the future and create traction in the execution of that vision across the entire organization. The Head of Product will sit on our leadership team. He or she will own maintenance and innovation of our suite of products, including both client-facing and internal-facing systems. This person will work together with our CEO and leadership team to define our product vision and roadmap. The right person for this position wants to make NM’s products his or her “baby.” We’re looking for someone who wants the opportunity to be part of building a small but fast-growing startup into the leader in the website publisher revenue creation industry.
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Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
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• Work together with our CEO, CFO, and Director of Ad Operations to establish the product vision and strategy for the company, as well as developing metrics and goals to measure success

• Lead, manage, and create accountability for the members of NM’s development teams

• Own and hold buck-stops-with-you responsibility for the maintenance and innovation of NM’s products, including its: (i) ad server; (ii) auto-bidding system; (iii) reporting and analytics platforms; and (iv) Salesforce instance

• Rapidly iterate and evolve the product to meet NM’s needs, while creating scalable global solutions

• Successfully oversee roll-out, including quality control, of a wide variety of new features on each product every month

• Work toward integrating all of NM’s systems into one cohesive whole

• Collaboratively lead company strategy with respect to hiring and growth in the Product department.

• Develop product roadmaps and ensuring alignment across product teams, cross-functional partners (Finance, Ad Operations, Sales, Account Management) and the leadership team

• Implement best-in-class product development and management practices

• Use internal and external data, research and learning opportunities to look around corners for future needs

Who you are:
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• 2-5+ years of experience as a Head of Product, Director of Product Management, or a similar role

• Experience with these are a significant plus: Node.JS (Express.JS) , MongoDB, HTML, CSS, Javascript, and integrating using APIs

• A systems thinker who is humbly confident with a quick mind

• Demonstrated ability to articulate and execute a product vision, strategy, planning and development

• Passionate about design and creative problem-solving.

• Embodies Next Millennium’s core values:

• Driven to win – takes pleasure in crushing the competition

• Creative – always finds a way, a problem-solver, strong ability and interest in obsessively researching to find an answer

• Energetic – like a beast, driven, as if by a motor

• Loves to work hard – If something needs to get done, get ‘er done

• Smart – nuanced, quick thinker prepared to head-to-head with the competition

• Owns it – Outcome, not task or checklist, oriented
• Entrepreneurial drive and demonstrated ability to achieve goals in a fast-paced environment, while building scalable solutions

• Excellent written and oral communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences

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Job Type: Full-time

Work Location:

• One location