House Party, Inc. (www.houseparty.com) is seeking a Product Management hire who is responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering, sales, marketing and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. The Product Manager’s job also includes ensuring that the product supports the company’s overall strategy and goals.
Responsibilities:
1. Define the product strategy and roadmap
2. Define new service offerings
3. Ensure projects stay to plan
4. Manage cross functional teams
5. Determine project scope and timelines
Required experience and knowledge
1. Minimum of 5 years experience as a Product Manager
2. Demonstrated success defining and launching digital products
3. Excellent project management skills
4. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
6. (MBA preferred)
7. Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
About House Party
House Party is a tech-enabled service company focused on delivering high impact WOM marketing and consumer activation programs for corporate clients. Serving Fortune 1000 companies, House Party was founded in 2005 by Gene DeRose – founder, chairman and long-time CEO of Jupiter Communications – and Parker Reilly, whose work re-shaped consumer marketing for youth and music marketers at companies like Polygram Records, Viacom and Time Inc. In late 2006 the company recruited Kitty Kolding to refine the offering and develop the client base. She was named CEO in early 2007 to grow the company and expand the simple yet powerful idea on which House Party was founded.
The company was capitalized at its outset in 2005 with an investment from Mr. DeRose and a small but notable group of angel investors, and recently raised $3.4 million in a Series B equity financing. Serving clients in a diverse range of markets, House Party deploys its powerful consumer engagement services to key markets which include CPG, Food & Beverage, Television, Toys & Games, Automotive, Consumer Electronics, Pharma and the non-profit space. Current clients include NBC, Cartoon Network, TNT, History Channel, Kraft, Ford, Saturn, P&G, Johnson & Johnson, Gerber, Mattel, Fisher Price, GSK, Arm & Hammer, Canon, Microsoft Xbox and many more.
Our flagship offering is House Party events. A House Party event consists of thousands of parties that take place across the country, all on the same day, in the homes of precisely targeted consumer hosts. Each party is attended by the host’s friends, family, neighbors, co-workers or classmates, and is shaped and framed around a brand or an element of entertainment programming. At the center of every event is a custom branded microsite that serves as “Party Central” for 6 weeks – three weeks before and three weeks after the Party Date. Each event site delivers an array of pre-programmed functionality that is skinned and branded for each engagement and which gathers, galvanizes and tracks the activity and outcomes of each event. Consumers love House Party. Brands find it to be a uniquely powerful method of activating consumers and doing WOM marketing using a rigorous, measurable engagement framework.