VP Product Management

Job Description

CBS Sports, a year-round leader in television sports, broadcasts a portfolio of events on the CBS Television Network, including ''NFL ON CBS;'' college football, including the ''SEC ON CBS;'' college basketball, including the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship; golf, including The Masters®, PGA Championship and PGA TOUR; and ''CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR.''

CBS Sports also delivers an extensive lineup of global soccer coverage on Paramount+, including every UEFA club competition match, all Serie A matches as well as Concacaf national team competitions, and produces INSIDE THE NFL for Paramount+. CBS Sports Digital's multi-platform offerings include CBSSports.com and the CBS Sports apps for mobile and connected TV devices; the 24/7 streaming sports news network CBS Sports HQ; 247Sports; MaxPreps; CBS Sports fantasy games; and SportsLine.

CBS Digital is seeking a strong, experienced product leader to lead its Shared Services Product Organization. Reporting directly into the EVP, Product & Operations, this role will lead all aspects of product strategy, development and deployment of a portfolio of shared/federated media products supporting some of the worlds largest websites, apps, data products and games. Products within this responsibility include data models and sports statistics, CMS/publishing tools, CRM products and marketing technologies.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be accountable for and measured on four key leadership proficiencies:

TEAM DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCT VISION, EXECUTION, AND PRODUCT CULTURE
- Develop a strong team of product managers through a dedication to recruiting, training and ongoing mentorship.
- Translate the CBS Digital mission and vision into a meaningful and viable product strategy and plan for the shared services portfolio
- Responsible for assisting with quarterly planning and assigning objectives (problems to take on) to product teams
- Give to the product team a deep knowledge of the portfolio's users and customers, and the data about how our customers engage with our products
- Track industry trends and the competitive landscape as they pertain to the product portfolio
- Serve as primary architect and operator of the product planning, customer discovery, product discovery, and product development processes and can flex to various size teams with the focused goal of delivering consistently, rapidly, and effectively
- Act as chief evangelist and primary collaborator liaison for the products
- Strike the balance between continuous delivery and continuous innovation

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

A product leader who can lead with confidence and without the need for reporting authority. The ideal candidate can navigate organizational altitudes well as a product strategist across a diverse portfolio of internal products, yet can flex to get their hands dirty to lead teams through the product development lifecycle with momentum. This role seeks candidates with:
- 7+ years of Product Management experience with exposure to consumer-facing experiences (ideally in media and data products)
- A confirmed ability to develop individual Product Managers and hard-working, cross functional teams
- The ability to get things done within a large organization and have absolutely proven your ability to do so
- A robust passion for modern, product development and digital products
- A true champion of partnership and is someone who easily earns the trust and respect of their peers
- Ability to communicate product plans and decisions clearly to all teams at both executive and individual contributor levels
- Experience using an OKR framework and are not afraid to sign up for outcomes
- Strong beliefs, loosely held; you willingly defend product decisions yet embrace having your point of view changed
OUR TEAM

CBS Sports has a nimble product team distributed across NYC, Kansas City, Cameron Park, Nashville, and Fort Lauderdale. We span multiple brands under the CBS Sports umbrella including Max Preps, 24/7 Sports, Sportsline, Sports HQ & Fantasy. We believe product is the linchpin across all departments uniting the team and translating departmental nomenclature into one universal language that bonds our groups together. User research is at the center of everything we push and work tirelessly to continually improve our understanding of CBS Sports users.

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

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