Mobile Business Analyst / Product Manager at MLB

Excellent written and verbal communication skills are a must. Must be able to thrive both independently when necessary and as part of a larger team.

Job description and core competencies:

• Product planning – coordinates development of product, feature, and infrastructure roadmap
• Market sizing and competitive analysis
• Building detailed usage & revenue forecasts for internal, partner, & carrier use based on past performance data and industry benchmarks
• Analyzing, quantitatively and qualitatively, business trade-offs involved in product design & functionality decisions
• Analyzing distribution decisions and product design impact, such as handset support, carrier support, etc.
• Crafting internal and partner communications – road shows, reports, etc.
• Leading product and brand marketing initiatives, including targeting, collaboration on creative, messaging, and tracking
• Requirements development – collaborating with the Developers and Product Manager to articulate functional and performance requirements and act as the customer and partner advocate on development projects
• Process design – involved in developing processes around customer support, workflow with partners and creative contributors
• Work closely with editorial to determine programming and content inventories across

Ideal candidate has:

• Subject-matter knowledge of Baseball and the Sports vertical in general
• Experience creating business cases for developing & deploying premium and free-to-consumer mobile and/or Web applications
• Demonstrated ability to quickly evaluate rapidly emerging technologies and think three steps ahead of the market, seeing through the Fads to the sustainable businesses
• Knowledge of digital subscription, advertising and sponsorship business models
• Knowledge of Web, mobile, broadcast, and print media
• Quant-focused executive decision support experience in a strategy/consulting environment
• Corporate finance experience/knowledge
• Ability to quickly understand and navigate a complex ecosystem of partners, competitors, rightsholders, labor issues, etc.
• Will and ability to roll up sleeves and apply direct effort to resolving complex business and technology issues
• "Start-up" mentality

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