Who We Need & What You’ll Do
Would you like to help the Product team shape our newest business service offering? Launched in January 2022, AccuWeather’s new product, ClimateReady Risk Mitigation, is designed to help companies, municipalities, and organizations worldwide prepare for the impact of climate change.
This offering leverages AccuWeather’s superior insights to assess the impacts of climate change through organizational risk scenarios up to the year 2100 for a client’s specific location(s) or designated market area (DMA). The unique combination of AccuWeather’s exclusive and comprehensive high-resolution historical weather and climate database, over 300 weather parameters, peer-reviewed climate change models, and the proven Superior Accuracy of AccuWeather’s weather forecasts are the foundation of ClimateReady’s detailed, actionable projections. ClimateReady Risk Mitigation will empower organizations to confidently make the best climate-preparatory decisions.
We are looking for a Product Manager Climate Services to focus on enhancing the capabilities of this new feature, while keeping scalability and performance in mind. Using your expertise in working with weather datasets and other weather-related products, you will be responsible for creating and being the champion of the Climate Services roadmap. Collaboration is key as this role will interact with Sales, Business, Operations, Marketing and Development teams, along with other AccuWeather For Business Product Mangers with the goal of best integrating Climate Services to all other B2B platforms.
The Product Manager Climate Services can work onsite at AccuWeather’s office in New York City. Remote candidates are also being considered for this mid-level opportunity.
Who We Are
AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved tens of thousands of lives, prevented hundreds of thousands of injuries and tens of billions of dollars in property damage. With global headquarters in State College, Pennsylvania; a severe weather center in Wichita, Kansas; and offices in New York City and elsewhere around the world, AccuWeather serves more than 1.5 billion people daily to help them plan their activities and get more out of their day through innovative digital media properties, such as AccuWeather.com and mobile, as well as AccuWeather For Business (AFB), radio, television, newspapers, digital out of home, the 24/7 AccuWeather Network channel and AccuWeather NOW streaming service. Additionally, AccuWeather produces and distributes news, weather content, and video for more than 180,000 third-party websites.
Job Responsibilities
- Operate as the subject matter expert for our climate-related products, supporting the exploration and realization of solutions that drive AccuWeather’s next generation technologies and services.
- Establish and manage scientific goals through implementation and improvement of a process of rapid prototyping and development in a cloud-based environment.
- Perform research across the Climate Services competitive landscape, to understand differences in underlaying data, platform capabilities and pricing.
- Create the roadmap of new features and released around our Climate Services.
- Work with our Design team on applying best practices of UX/UI for the client-facing output of our Climate Services.
- Define the strategy on how to best integrate Climate Services into AccuWeather’s B2B product environment.
- Support Sales and Business on defining the pricing strategy for Climate Services.
- Join meetings for clients and prospective new customers, being the voice of the product team around Climate Services.
- Other duties as assigned.
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Atmospheric Science, Computer Science, or a similar, relevant field. Candidates with a proven record of work experience with weather-related products may also be considered.
- Expertise in ingesting, manipulating and analyzing weather datasets
- Experience supporting the creation and/or maintenance of products related to weather
- Experience with climate-related products will be a strong differentiator
- Innovative mindset with a desire to work on a variety of projects.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Enjoys engaging in a team environment, including daily stand ups and routine brainstorming.
- Remote candidates in Canada and the United States are being considered for this opportunity
- In the United States, AccuWeather is only able to hire team members in the following states due to taxation purposes: CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MD, MN, MO, NE, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI and WY.
More About AccuWeather
AccuWeather’s innovation-first promise has led to the development of many award-winning and propriety features that are available free to the public, including AccuWeather MinuteCast Minute by Minute forecasts with Superior Accuracy , the exclusive AccuWeather RealFeel Temperature, and AccuWeather RealImpact Scale for Hurricanes, among many other revolutionary products for the greater safety, convenience and comfort of our users. Further, AccuWeather serves more than half of the Fortune 500 and thousands of other businesses in the U.S. and globally.
Dr. Joel N. Myers, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the father of modern commercial meteorology. Dr. Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been named the most accurate man in weather by The New York Times and one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. View the EEO is the Law poster here and its supplement here. The pay transparency policy is available here.
AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to human.resources@accuweather.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.