Posted May 24

Chatbot Product Owner

Basking Ridge, NJ (Remote Hybrid) Full time

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What you’ll be doing...

Our team focuses on the Sales Chat and Messaging product experience within our VBG Digital organization. We’re seeking a chatbot product manager to improve on implementing our NLP/NLU layer for sales chat across our digital sales funnel. In this role, you’ll be working with a hardworking and driven team of experts in the chat/messaging world with an aligned goal to drive growth through our chat and messaging experiences.

The sales chatbot product manager will be expected to build and maintain bots for our prospect/upper funnel experiences. We are looking for candidates with experience in developing and executing various tech-driven campaigns on our asynchronous messaging Platform. Additionally, we are seeking candidates who can both gather and document data-driven learnings across our different segments.

  • Build sales chat bots across out messaging channels (e.g., Web messaging/Google Messages, Apple business chat).
  • Work directly with our vendor partners within our network to develop and share best practices for growth and impact on our bots.
  • Test and QA bot builds.
  • Understand our unique approach to bots and build processes and documentation to improve upon our current systems.
  • Partner with product leadership across functions (PM, Design, GTS) as well as technical/engineering groups, to ensure that our sales bots are working, performing and delivering growth.
  • Design conversational AI experiences that are natural and engaging to help potential customers answer their questions or complete orders.
  • Help with the buildout of new intents, including collecting historical utterances, training intents, conversational design and optimization.

Where you’ll be working…

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

What we’re looking for...


You’ll need to have:
  • Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
  • Four or more years of relevant work experience.
  • Experience in product or program management, product marketing, business development or technology.
  • Experience owning roadmap strategy and definition.
  • Experience developing and deploying chatbot solutions.
  • Willingness to travel.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:
  • A degree.
  • Experience owning feature delivery and tradeoffs of a product.
  • Experience working cross-functionally (product, design, engineering, usability, content development).
  • Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior management.
  • Experience in implementing NLP/NLU to curate conversational UI.
  • Sales chat and messaging technology experience.
  • Analytical and quantitative skills, including ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, develop business cases and drive improvements.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

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