Product Management - Tech

Job Description

GOLFTV is a new international destination for golf fans created by Discovery, the global leader in real-life entertainment, in partnership with the PGA TOUR. The first-of-its-kind digital platform, which launches in January 2019, will include a dedicated video streaming service, ensuring you can watch many of golf's most exciting professional tournaments, players and moments anytime, anywhere on every screen and device.

The new venture from Discovery will seek to create a worldwide home for all things golf, with new content and features added on a regular basis to build GOLFTV into the ultimate fan experience.

Job Summary

As television and media habits change, our mission remains true to the principles that founded Discovery – every day we seek to ignite people's curiosity to engage,entertain and enlighten the world around them through amazing viewing experiences. The Direct to Consumer Group is a technology company within the Discovery brand. We are building a streaming video platform and a suite of applications to support all of our network's brands globally. We power end-user experiences ranging from classic lean-back viewing to interactive learning applications. We build connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles for a large footprint of Discovery owned networks (Discovery+, Food Network, Golf TV, MotorTrend, Eurosport, and many more) This is a growing, global engineering group crucial to Discovery's future.

Discovery is the owner of several sports franchises in EMEA and beyond, including the Olympics, Roland Garros and golf and cycling events. These bring millions of customers to our apps, and we need to find ways to retain these customers and turn them into long term subscribers. We believe personalized recommendations is one such mechanism.

Sports Recommendations is a program to develop personalized / automated recommendations for customers interested in sports to keep them engaged with our apps throughout the year.

The ideal candidate communicates clearly with both internal and external stakeholders, organizes project timelines, secures commitments, manages risks, identifies the critical path, spots edge cases, reviews metrics & data, and monitors operations. The ideal candidate is a strong self-starter and therefore can drill into business data and research results to identify clear direction and focus for their tasks, projects and programs. They continue to move forward in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge.

The ideal candidate has had experience working with multiple partners and maintaining partner relationships. They have demonstrated experience leading medium to large projects. They have experience in project management and agile development methodologies with a proven track record of delivering results. They must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. You are a key influencer in your team's strategy and contribute significantly to team planning. You show good judgement making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs. You are a collaborative partner that makes other team members around you more productive, by sharing your knowledge and providing a clear prioritized product roadmap. You provide mentoring to others.

The role of the Product Manager here is to build a program that works backwards from the needs of sports fans, and launch recommendations and other proactive notification features in our apps / offline emails to drive engagement and retention with these customers. In doing this, you will be accountable for the What and Why for Sports Recommendations and Personalization for Sports fans. You will work with the Sports PM team to build an understanding of customer needs before, during and after major events, and use these to drive your deliverables.

Responsibilities

1. Partner with key stakeholders at different Discovery brands to understand their current platform needs and anticipate future platform needs. You will need to gather and synthesize requirements from many different brands across a diverse set of geographies, timezones, and use cases into a single product roadmap that can serve them all.

2. Bring analytic rigor to decisions around product direction, priorities, and scope, describing the pros and cons of different options in a way that a distributed team can come to a decision on the right course of action.

3. Maintain a prioritized product roadmap for your area, and present the status of that roadmap on a regular basis to stakeholders, other teams, and executives

4. Create and review detailed functional designs and FAQs that unambiguously specify all public behaviors and interfaces, provide test examples, enumerate and describe all edge conditions, and define operational success criteria and KPI goals, which will then be used by engineering for technical designs. Technical product management will provide the ''why'' and the ''what'', while engineering and technical program management will provide the ''how'', ''who'', and ''when''.

5. Make sure your designs fit into the larger DTC platform, collaborating with other teams on consistency and cross-team integrations, leveraging existing patterns and strategies, and staying up to date on high-level roadmaps and challenges across different teams.

6. Regularly engage stakeholders and external teams to communicate the status of various in-flight development, and anticipate the result of schedule changes to other teams

7. Analyze and track operational KPIs that you own, finding the right roadmap blend between new feature work and maintenance/sustained engineering. You will be responsible for maintaining the general operational snapshot of your feature area and presenting it as necessary.

8. Do outreach and evangelism to brands and other platform teams, maintaining and presenting the roadmap presentation for your area

9. Act as the subject-matter expert for your product area for people outside of their team.

10. Contribute to and review documentation for public-facing APIs and features

11. Research potential partners to accelerate our roadmap by creating evaluation criteria, connecting and managing relationships with partners, and prototyping potential integrations

Requirements
• Minimum of 5+ years of proven experience in product management in technology, media, or relevant industries.
• Solid understanding of and experience with ML-driven recommendations systems in Media OR in building Sports media experiences.
• Demonstrated ability to work with leaders and peers to evaluate new ideas, discuss business and product concepts, creating compelling product designs, implement new features and systems, and make tradeoffs to remove roadblocks.
• Experience leading and driving systematic improvements across product, design, and engineering teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Can communicate the results of your work clearly to your audience.
• Experience working with engineering and data science teams to build model-based product features is a plus.
• Prior experience with using A/B experimentation to launch features
• BS degree in computer science or a related technical field is preferred.
• Must have the legal right to work in the United States.

GOLFTV is a new international destination for golf fans created by Discovery, the global leader in real-life entertainment, in

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