Facebook

New Products, Program Manager

Posted on: 22 Mar 2021

Austin, TX

Job Description

Product and Service Operations (PSO) mission is to build a service engine that solves todays customer problems, and prevents tomorrows. PSO teams are involved throughout the lifecycle of product development and service delivery to ensure that our customers have a seamless experience on our platform. This team is passionate about fostering the growth of communities, businesses and advertisers on Facebook by ensuring they have the tools needed to succeed. We embrace a culture of innovation, ownership and accountability and are uniquely positioned at the intersection of product and service. This allows us to partner with teams across Facebook to drive our business forward by representing the community to improve their experience, implementing in-product solutions, enhancing customer support operations, combining quantitative with qualitative signals to drive product launches, focusing on data management and scaling measurement outcomes. The PSO New Products team is seeking a Program Manager who is passionate about testing and launching Facebook's newest business and marketing solutions. This Program Manager will bring operational strategy and process to alpha and beta product testing, and influence new products for scaled release. To that end, candidates must be able to effectively collaborate with our partners in Engineering, Marketing Science, Product Marketing and Operations, and be comfortable performing under high-pressure, fast-moving and often ambiguous conditions. The ideal candidate will be strong at cross-functional communication and project execution, knowledgeable about marketing, adept with Facebook's business tools (e.g. Ads Manager), and have an aptitude for measurement and data analysis. To be successful, you will have to have strong program and project management skills as well as be comfortable performing under high-pressure, fast-moving and often ambiguous conditions.

New Products, Program Manager Responsibilities

* Work extensively with cross-functional partners - e.g. Product Manager, Product Marketing, Marketing Science, and Data Science teams to scope test design/requirements, manage test launches, test monitoring and analysis

* Act as the main point of contact for Product, Sales and Marketing Science to ensure smooth and seamless test execution. Manage, monitor, build, and recruit for product tests with advertisers (i.e. alpha/beta tests)

* Effectively communicate relevant insights to cross functional teams (Product, Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Operations and User Research) to influence and drive their roadmap prioritization, leveraging data and insights to develop multi-faceted solutions to fix problems at scale at all stages of the product life cycle

* Communicate across audiences, effectively understanding and utilizing escalation paths, and updating stakeholders including liaising with Product teams to troubleshoot and problem-solve issues that arise during testing

* Facilitate meetings, discussions and document project status and key decisions made via internal project management tools

* Inform, influence, and execute new processes based on sound analysis and impact metrics that lead to improvements in efficiency and quality of support

* Accountable for driving delivery of multiple 1-6 month long projects from start to finish

Minimum Qualifications

* BA/BS degree

* 2+ years work experience in managing the implementation, tracking and measurement of digital marketing campaigns

* 3+ years experience with program/project management, customer service, marketing, user or UX research and/or operations

* Experience designing experiments and knowledge of A/B testing

* Experience with Ads Manager, and/or other interfaces within Facebook's ad platform

* Experience working andbuilding relationships with cross-functional teams with ease, delivering impact consistently through seamless communication, influencing teams toward achieving goals

* Experience implementing processes and programs that improve product or operational performance

* Experience initiating and driving projects to completion with minimal guidance

Preferred Qualifications

* Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and unstructured problems

* Open, collaborative and proven team player with experience initiating and driving projects to completion with minimal guidance or support

* Experience contributing at both strategic and operational levels

* Experience leading data-driven projects and experience communicating results and insights to cross-functional partners

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About the Facebook company

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities we're just getting started.

Facebook is committed to providing reasonable support (called accommodations) in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions or who are neurodivergent, and to candidates with sincerely held religious beliefs or requiring pregnancy related support. If you need support, please reach out to accommodations-ext@fb.com.

Facebook

Menlo Park, CA

Facebook, Inc. provides various products to connect and share through mobile devices, personal computers, and other surfaces worldwide. The company’s products include Facebook that enables people to connect, share, discover, and communicate with each other on mobile devices and personal computers; Instagram, a community for sharing photos, videos, and messages; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, groups, and businesses across platforms and devices; and WhatsApp, a messaging application for use by people and businesses to communicate in a private way. It also provides Oculus, a hardware, software, and developer ecosystem, which allows people to come together and connect with each other through its Oculus virtual reality products. As of December 31, 2018, it had approximately 1.52 billion daily active users. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

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