Product Manager, Mapping and Weather Visualization
Job description
Product Manager, Mapping and Weather Visualization
This page outlines the role of Product Manager, Mapping and Weather Visualization at AccuWeather. It defines the responsibilities, qualifications, and context for this position within the organization.
About the role
The Product Manager, Mapping and Weather Visualization defines how weather data and related information appear across web, app, and business platforms. This individual guides a scrum team through the entire product lifecycle, from discovery through launch. The role involves translating user needs and market research into clear product direction for mapping and weather visualization features. The manager ensures experiences remain coherent while fostering audience growth and engagement. This position is suitable for a junior to mid-level product manager who is passionate about geospatial displays and improving lives through data.
Location and engagement
This role is positioned as a remote opportunity. The selected candidate will engage in remote collaboration with internal and external partners. The position is based in State College, Pennsylvania, with remote work arrangements.
Compensation
The compensation range for this role is $130,000 to $170,000 USD per year. This range reflects the scope and responsibility of the position within AccuWeather's organizational structure.
What you'll do
This role involves designing intuitive map and weather displays that increase user interaction and maintain experience consistency. The manager will gather feedback from users, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to shape requirements and provide regular updates to leadership. Collaboration with experience designers and partners will focus on strengthening monetization while driving clear, accessible user journeys.
The position requires coordination with external vendors and internal groups to expand AccuWeather's platform reach and capabilities. Analyzing user behavior is essential, including understanding why users choose specific features and which enhancements they request next. The manager will track product health, identify performance issues early, and resolve obstacles before they impact users.
Additional responsibilities include prioritizing work items, managing technical debt, and guiding sprint execution with cross-functional teams. The role demands leading engineers and designers to deliver features quickly while maintaining data correctness. Ensuring accuracy from source data through final map rendering is a core duty, keeping displays reliable and timely.
The manager will draft high-quality product requirement documents that clearly communicate vision and success metrics. Ownership of results spans discovery through launch, followed by analysis of outcomes to refine future maps and weather visuals. The role also involves exploring methods to extend the product vision across services while working with subject matter experts.
Qualifications
Candidates must hold a Bachelor's degree and bring four to six years of experience managing products in digital environments. Demonstrated experience with web and app platforms, including frameworks and distributed product workflows, is required. The ideal candidate shows superior knowledge of digitally distributed weather products and related technology.
The ability to write detailed requirements using wireframes, criteria, and business cases for mapping features is essential. Effective communication with product, design, and development teams across locations and time zones is mandatory. Meticulous attention to detail must be balanced with a strategic view of maps and weather visualization.
Prioritization of work pipelines should be based on strategic goals and implications for weather customers. Proven leadership skills are necessary to guide teams and communicate effectively with executives and partners. Exceptional communication skills support alignment with stakeholders and drive both collective and independent decision-making. The candidate must balance creativity with practical limits and adapt quickly in a fast-changing weather market.
About AccuWeather
AccuWeather is recognized and documented as the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world. The company's proven Superior Accuracy™ has saved over 12,000 lives, prevented injury to over 100,000 people, and saved companies tens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making. Billions of people around the world rely on AccuWeather's trusted forecasts and warnings to help them plan their lives and protect those they care about.