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Senior Technical Product Manager

Paramount+

New York, NY 08-22-2022
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
  • Mid (2-5 years) Experience
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.

Paramount is a global leader in premium streaming services with premiere content across CBS, Showtime, BET, MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Smithsonian, Paramount Pictures and Epix. As a member of the Paramount+ product team, you'll build a world-class product experience across different international markets, all while putting customers first -- using data, market research, and user research to improve our products and grow the business

As a Senior Technical Product Manager on our Core Platform team, you will partner with our engineers to identify, assess, and prioritize opportunities and feature sets that will delight our customers. You will execute on that vision with features developed in market, and ensure end-to-end quality. In this role you will be on the bleeding edge of technology and positioned to shape the platform strategy and overall performance of Paramount+. This role reports to the Director of Core Platforms & Expansion. We are open to a 100% remote work location.

Your Day-to-Day:
-Be the voice of the customer.
-Lead weekly meetings–set agendas, provide recaps and identify action items tied to key initiatives.
-Translate vision, strategy, and roadmap into product definition, epics, and stories that can be communicated to engineering, QA and other cross-functional stakeholders.
-Take ownership over the quality of experience and deliver based on customer feedback.
-Operate both independently and as part of a broader team; juggle multiple tasks and projects simultaneously in a results-oriented environment.
-Interpret usage data and develop reports and presentations analyzing product usage.
-Actively participate in efforts to optimize and grow the Paramount+ subscription service & expand the footprint of available devices to stream on.
-Think like a user, building features and tools to discover the best content we offer in an easy, intuitive way.
-Find user pain points which may occur while using Paramount+ and come up with innovative solutions to resolve those issues.

Qualities :
-A love for entertainment and a passion for streaming
-Desire to grow and shape an industry
-Experience working on consumer facing products
-Keen eye and attention to detail
-Excellent communication skills to all levels of the organization
-Organizational skills to deliver projects from inception to launch
-Ability to analyze opportunities presented, gain internal buy-in, and prioritize for execution

Experience:
• 2+ years product experience building and delivering successful products, services and capabilities
• Experience solving problems in an ambiguous environment with constant change
• Ability to analyze opportunities presented, gain internal buy-in, and prioritize for execution
• Planning acumen, with ability to break down work and define an MVP, as well as subsequent iterations
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality features that improve the customers' experience and achieve business goals
• Collaborative spirit with key organizational areas: PMO, Product, Engineering, Marketing, Analytics, Customer Service and others

Preferred Skills:
• Bachelor's degree in business, technology, computer science, media or relevant fields
• History with International web & applications / D2C subscription of premium services
• Experience with consumer-facing video streaming experiences including media-centric information architecture
• Experience working with different teams to develop a cross company collaborative tool or product

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

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d2q6x7-3-145-206-169-42 in your application.

Company Profile
Paramount+

ViacomCBS delivers premium content to audiences across traditional and emerging platforms worldwide. Through television, streaming and digital content, studio production, publishing, live events, merchandise and more, we connect with billions of people.