Senior Product Manager, Rights Management

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​The Product & Technology group at Conde Nast is seeking a Senior Product Manager to own and evolve our global Digital Rights Management (DRM) strategy, systems, and workflows. In this role, you'll be responsible for integrating Digital Rights Management into the daily editorial workflows of thousands of journalists around the world. You will partner closely with Business Affairs, Editorial, Engineering, and Design functions to develop, maintain, and execute the strategy and product roadmap for Rights-related technologies at Conde Nast. This role reports to the Senior Director of Product, Publishing Platform.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serve as the face of DRM technologies by communicating feature launches, triaging support issues, and presenting the roadmap to internal stakeholders.

• 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 implement all DRM workflow training curricula for editorial employees including new user onboarding, new feature training, and ongoing refresher courses for already onboarded teams.

• 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.

• Establish quarterly objectives and track performance against key results that map to the Publishing Platform’s overall goals.

• Create and manage all product and project documentation, including product support documentation for our editorial and business staff.

• 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.

Desired Skills & Qualifications:

The ideal candidate will have subject matter expertise in DRM and will have successfully integrated DRM into the workflows and technology of a content-centered organization. In addition, they will have:

• 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.

• Nice to have: Ability to speak multiple languages. We are building global tools for users operating in 9 languages and 11 markets.

Pay Range: $140,000-$190,000

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply below, and we will review your application as soon as possible. You can update your resume or upload a cover letter at any time by accessing your candidate profile.

Condé Nast is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, familial status and other legally protected characteristics.