Product Manager

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Detroit, MI
100K-140K Annually
Mid level
Other
The Role
Manage the development and optimization of digital products, focusing on data-driven solutions that enhance user experiences. Collaborate with stakeholders, lead cross-functional teams, analyze data, and ensure alignment of product strategies with business objectives.
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Description

Crain Communications is seeking an experienced, versatile Product Manager to lead the development and optimization of digital products across our diverse portfolio of media brands. This role requires a well-rounded product professional with proven expertise in managing a diverse range of product initiatives, while demonstrating a strong foundation in data-centric products, including Customer Data Platforms (CDPs) and solutions that empower data-driven insights and decision-making. The ideal candidate has a customer-centric approach with experience working across multiple business units, managing diverse stakeholders, and balancing strategic vision with tactical execution.

The ideal candidate has experience shaping data-driven product strategies, defining data contracts, and collaborating with engineering teams to design and implement scalable data pipelines that align with business objectives.  

Key Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with diverse stakeholders across functional teams to shape and execute the product strategy and roadmap for digital products within our portfolio of brands.
  • Lead the ideation, development, and optimization of products and projects that involve data-driven solutions that empower our media brands to understand customer needs, personalize user experiences, and improve engagement.
  • Work with analytics and engineering teams to collect, organize, and analyze data across platforms, defining key metrics, analyzing user behavior, and tracking engagement to inform product decisions.
  • Partner with engineering, data analytics, marketing, and editorial teams to define requirements, validate hypotheses, and iterate on data product solutions.
  • Develop and track success metrics to evaluate product performance, identify opportunities for improvement, and ensure measurable business outcomes.
  • Support broader initiatives to enhance user experiences, improve workflow efficiency, and build scalable, reusable solutions across brands.
  • Foster a culture of data-driven decision-making, ensuring data product strategies align with corporate and brand goals.
  • Clearly communicate product vision and objectives to cross-functional teams, providing updates on performance, challenges, and opportunities.
  • Collaborate with research teams to identify customer needs, evaluate competitive offerings, and shape differentiated, market-leading solutions in the data product space.
  • Manage the product lifecycle from ideation through launch and beyond, ensuring they deliver measurable value to customers and our business.

Requirements:

  • 3+ years in product management, ideally with experience building or managing data-driven products.
  • Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional data initiatives and launching data products that drive business outcomes.
  • Experience with data analysis applications (e.g., Adobe Analytics, Tableau & other data visualization tools) and familiarity with data architecture, data governance, data contracts and privacy requirements.
  • Proven experience in ideating, prototyping, testing, and refining solutions through both customer and stakeholder feedback.
  • Excellent communication skills with an ability to clearly explain technical data concepts to technical and non-technical audiences alike.
  • Knowledge of data infrastructure, data pipelines, and experience with technologies supporting data-driven media (e.g., CDPs, CRMs, ESPs).
  • Experience in SaaS products or supporting multiple business units at scale.

This role is remote eligible but also available to work out of our Detroit, Chicago, or New York headquarters. 

Pay Transparency Disclosure:

The estimated salary range for this position is $100,000 to $140,000.

The final salary offering will take into account a wide range of factors, including experience, accomplishments and location. The salary range provided should not be considered as a salary limit or cap. In addition to base salary, Crain also offers competitive benefits including retirement plan savings contributions and bonus opportunities based on individual and company performance.

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About Crain Communications: 

Crain Communications is a leading business news and information company with a portfolio of 24 media brands that provide indispensable coverage and data for professionals globally and across sectors, including advertising, automotive, finance, healthcare, staffing, and workforce solutions. Many of Crain’s brands are the most influential media properties in the industries and communities they serve, including Ad Age, Automotive News, Pensions & Investments, Modern Healthcare, Staffing Industry Analysts, as well as Crain’s regional business brands. For more than a century, our dedication to deep sector expertise and journalistic integrity has enabled us to provide trusted insights across all our platforms, empowering today’s business leaders to make industry-shaping decisions. To learn more about Crain Communications, visit crain.com.

 

Environmental Demands 

Where you work matters. The job posting will provide specific information on where and when your amazing work would be performed. Employee work location is determined by the needs of the specific team and may include on-site, hybrid or remote. Employee work location is subject to change.

  • An “in-office” role would require the employee to come into the office most days with occasional flexibility to work remotely if tasks can be performed elsewhere and if the manager approves.  
  • A “remote” role would allow an employee to work from a home office that is in one of the states Crain does business in. We can only employ a remote / "work from home" employee if they reside in one of these states: AZ, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, MD, MA, MI, MN, NV, NY, NC, OH, OR, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI, and Washington, DC.
  • A “hybrid” role would be a mix of in-office and remote work. There may be a specified schedule for coming into the office or it could be at the discretion of the employee with the manager’s approval, subject to change. 
  • Employees who live within a reasonable commute distance from a Crain office are expected to work on-site 3 days per week.

  

Many positions will also include work done in “the field.” Depending on the role, this may include conducting in-person interviews, attending work-related events, meeting with sources or clients. Specifics will be noted in the job posting but are subject to change as a role evolves. Employees may be exposed to adverse environmental conditions, specifically during field work. Other typical job functions are performed under conditions such as those found in general office work. 

 

Travel to cover news stories/events, meetings with clients, and to our geographically separated offices may be required. It is the nature of many positions to experience non-standard working hours and be on-call when needed for responding to email, meeting with clients, attending work-related events, story development or breaking news. Most employees perform work Monday through Friday, although early-morning, evening or weekend shifts may be required.  Work schedule and travel requirements are subject to change as a role and needs evolve over time.  

 

Physical Demands 
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of many Crain jobs and are subject to change. 

Physical activities will include frequent in-person or virtual interactions. For most positions, it is essential to be able to remain at a desk/computer workstation for prolonged periods, perform computer-related tasks, and create/maintain documents within filing systems. Must have close visual acuity to perform an activity, such as preparing and analyzing reports and information, transcribing, viewing a computer terminal, or extensive reading. The typical physical requirements are light work—exerting up to 25lbs of force occasionally and/or up to 10lbs of force frequently and may include climbing, pushing, standing, hearing, walking, reaching, grasping, kneeling, stooping, and repetitive motion. Some positions will have additional physical requirements, including exerting up to 50lbs of force to move and/or carry equipment, supplies, files, or other materials as the role requires.  

 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions and meet the environmental and physical demands of the role. 

 

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities  The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

The Company
HQ: Detroit, Michigan
3,987 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1916

What We Do

Across 24 brands and 10 offices worldwide, Crain employees share a passion and purpose to deliver exceptional news products. Crain understands that our employees are our most valuable resource. That’s why we are committed to investing in top talent and providing the tools and resources they need to excel, not only in their projects, but in their career.

We promote collaboration, innovation and a sense of fun all while working to make a difference in ways that are rewarding both personally and professionally.

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