Sr. Product Manager-Temporary Worker

Job Description:

**TEMP, Part-Time Role 

**24 hours/Week, Tuesday – Friday 

**ASAP – 8/28/2026 

**W2 on dentsu Payroll Only 

**Must be US based 

Company Description 

Merkle, a dentsu company, powers the experience economy. For more than 35 years, the company has put people at the heart of its approach to digital business transformation. As the only integrated experience consultancy in the world with a heritage in data science and business performance, Merkle delivers holistic, end-to-end experiences that drive growth, engagement, and loyalty. Merkle’s expertise has earned recognition as a “Leader” by top industry analyst firms, in categories such as digital transformation and commerce, experience design, engineering and technology integration, digital marketing, data science, CRM and loyalty, and customer data management. With more than 16,000 employees, Merkle operates in 30+ countries throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC.  

About the Role 

Merkle is seeking a TEMPORARY, Part-Time Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy, development, and delivery of data enrichment, AI, and Synthetic solutions powered by Dentsu's 260M+ record dataset. This role will sit at the intersection of data, analytics, and product — driving cross-functional collaboration between managed services, analytics, engineering, and research operations to bring high-impact solutions to market. 

Key Responsibilities 

Assessment & Discovery 

• Audit existing processes, workflows, and tools to surface inefficiencies and misalignment across teams 

• Conduct stakeholder interviews across leadership, research ops, analytics, managed services, and marketing/sales to understand priorities and pain points 

Competitive Analysis & Customer Insights 

• Lead competitive benchmarking to evaluate Merkle's capabilities against key market players 

• Develop customer journey maps to visualize the end-to-end research experience and identify opportunities for data enrichment 

• Synthesize customer feedback and conduct discovery interviews to validate opportunities and ground recommendations in the voice of the customer 

Product Strategy & Roadmap 

• Partner with leadership to define success metrics, set measurable goals, and ensure initiatives deliver both customer and business value 

• Collaborate with executive and commercial teams on pricing strategy and market positioning 

• Author Product Requirements Documents (PRDs) capturing problem statements, objectives, target users, technical requirements, risks, and success metrics 

• Facilitate stakeholder alignment sessions and drive consensus across functions 

• Define phased implementation plans that balance speed-to-value with feasibility 

Product Delivery & Program Management 

• Build and manage a product backlog, translating strategy into epics, user stories, and technical tasks 

• Partner with engineering and analytics leadership on resourcing, capacity planning, and execution 

• Drive cross-team coordination to ensure iterative, on-time delivery 

• Monitor progress, manage risks, and oversee pilot releases to validate assumptions and demonstrate early value 

Adoption & Enablement