Director, Technical Product Management, API

Job Description

Paramount+, a direct-to-consumer digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service from Paramount Global, combines live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment. The premium streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel. The service is also the streaming home to unmatched sports programming, including every CBS Sports event, from golf to football to basketball and more, plus exclusive streaming rights for major sports properties, including some of the world's biggest and most popular soccer leagues. Paramount+ also enables subscribers to stream local CBS stations live across the US in addition to the ability to stream Paramount Streaming's other live channels: CBSN for 24/7 news, CBS Sports HQ for sports news and analysis, and ET Live for entertainment coverage.

Role Details: As a member of the Paramount+ Content Systems Product team, you'll own the tools and systems that power our streaming experiences. You'll play an instrumental role in ensuring that Paramount+ can be operated efficiently as we grow with millions of new subscribers in numerous countries around the world. This is a brand-new team that is rapidly growing and is focused on solving problems and improving workflows and tools for the people we work with every day. We're looking for smart, dedicated and highly collaborative individuals to help us build forward-looking, intelligently-crafted tools that can allow our team's efforts to scale as our business grows. The solutions we're working on are mission-critical and are at the heart of how we deliver premium content to millions of people every day! This role is focused on delivering on and contributing to the vision and roadmap for our API services. You will build and lead a strong, motivated, and collaborative product team that has product ownership across APIs for content, personalization and engagement. These APIs power all of our Paramount+ applications and managing their evolution are critical to the success of the service and in order to facilitate the development of new product features. Your mission is to understand the needs and challenges of our partner teams, rigorously prioritize work and manage trade-offs across teams and verticals, and to work together to make sure we are building the right solutions to solve the right problems, at the right time. Come help us build the future of streaming! The intention is for this role, as we build the team, to act as a hands-on technical product owner for our API services, to provide immediate value and support to our various team pods. In tandem, you will help to recruit additional team members who can then take on the day-to-day product ownership of our various API verticals.

Responsibilities
• Lead the product management and development of Paramount+ Content, Personalization, and Engagement APIs
• Collaborate with the Engineering team to build knowledge of existing API services and API needs from the larger team in order to translate those needs into actionable projects and long-term roadmap
• Own the overall API product roadmap with responsibility for prioritizing initiatives and driving execution and follow through
• Drive product strategy based on thorough understanding of business needs, in close collaboration with other stakeholders and leadership
• Represent to executive leadership and platform leads the prioritization of the backend API teams and pivot when needed. Work with PMO to derive new milestones and targets from any ''change'' and own the prioritization.
• Develop trust across teams and build relationships to ensure collaboration across groups; facilitate execution within a complex organizational environment
• Create a strong partnership with Engineering; work together to determine solutions and ensure that the development teams have all the information they need to successfully execute initiatives
• Passionately foster a team culture built on mutual respect, communication and collaboration; be an accessible and visible leader
• If/when acting as product owner:
• Engage in scrum team activities (grooming, planning, standups, story writing, and prioritization)
• Translate user stories into backend-specific tasks needed to accomplish the goal of a given user story - not just the output, but how the endpoint is sourced/hydrated
• Provide clear vision to support technical development including but not limited to: scope documentation, use cases, workflows, sequence diagrams, UML diagrams, etc.
• Align various stakeholders across product, technology & operations on delivery scope and in preparation for launches
• Work to meet agreed upon time frames / target dates with the scrum team and PMO partners
• Additional other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Qualifications
• 5+ years of experience in product management for software development, with demonstrated competence in prioritizing against business value and balancing trade-offs
• 2+ years of experience effectively leading and managing teams of product managers or product owners
• Proven ability to lead with integrity, balancing clarity and decisiveness with deep empathy
• Demonstrated passion for building workflow tools and supporting internal teams
• Deep understanding of & comfort with complex technical workflow systems and tools; engineering experience a plus
• Ability to define, prioritize and execute on a Backend product backlog across multiple points of intake and support. Manage competing priorities across verticals
• Strong interest in and understanding of the streaming media landscape • Able to form valuable relationships with people across functional groups in order to facilitate effective product development
• Strong sense of best practices for product management and have extensive experience with Agile development methodologies
• Excellent communication skills, ability to lead meetings and drive result

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

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