Principal Product Manager, Sports

Job Description

Eurosport Digital is Discovery's primary drive into the Direct to Consumer business in Europe. It currently comprises two parts; Eurosport.com - the continent's number one sports news website - and Eurosport Player, a leading subscription-based OTT sports platform available across Europe.

The business is in a period of high growth, fueled by investment in rights, marketing, product and content.

Job Summary

The Discovery team is hiring a Principal Product Manager, Sports member to join the team.

Responsibilities
• Own and develop a specific Sports Features backlog, and be constantly grooming
• Delivers on a specific product roadmap to an identified ‘Sport Experience Mission’, gaining internal consensus and incorporating feedback from a range of sources to ensure the right features are delivered at the right time.
• Ownership of the Product delivery of the Olympic Games, Big Events and Sporting Leagues
• Ownership of Eurosport Player roadmap
• Lead a team of Sports focussed senior, mid and associate level Product Managers
• Acts with autonomy navigating the most complex problems - frequently where the product strategy, roadmap, and technology approach may not be known or defined
• Confident and comfortable shaping and clarifying ambiguous problem
• Work with delivery management to ensure high quality releases
• Work with UX & Design to ensure best-in-class products.
• Work with CX to inject real customer feedback to follow data driven product development principle
• Ensure complex business requirements are documented and reflected in product roadmaps and in the resulting products
• Role model for PM competencies across the organization; mentor, coach other PMs
• Contribute to iterative delivery of product features.
• Curate strong stakeholder management and the to create positive internal relationships
• Interface with international stakeholders and be able to travel, sometimes at short notice

Requirements
• Proven experience as a Lead Product Owner, with experience with internal development & technology teams in a video or media environment with a background in Sports focussed OTT Product
• Track record of developing market leading products, preferably in the sport space
• Able to demonstrate and articulate applications which you have led and what aspects of the application you have led on
• Recent and relevant experience managing a Product backlog
• Experience of using insights and analytics tools to achieve your product feature goal
• Excellent written and oral communication. Able to write and present to non-digital audiences
• Knowledge and understanding of Agile product development practices, particularly Scrum & Kanban
• Adherence to BDD
• Excellent decision making and judgment. Not afraid to make a decision.
• Perceptive, with strong analytical, logical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Skills to facilitate meetings at a Senior level
• Experience managing different digital workstreams
• Ability to co-ordinate internal and external cross functional teams, Development, Product and Design (ideally across varied geographical locations), to establish and execute project plans
• A strong sense of Ownership, to own yours successes and your failures and to learn from them

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d2x97m-3-145-186-173-42 in your application.