Technical Product Manager, Live TV Services

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 be responsible for the tools and systems that power our streaming experiences. You'll play an instrumental role in ensuring that we can operate efficiently as we grow with millions of new subscribers around the world. This role focuses on the vision and strategy for our Live Streaming Systems & Tools. You will act as a technical product owner for the tools we use for live streaming our 24/7 stations. These tools are integral to enabling the thousands of hours of linear content feeding Paramount+ applications, and leading its evolution. Come grow with us!

Responsibilities
• Act as Product Manager for a scrum team dedicated to Paramount+ Live Streaming Systems and Tools
• Collaborate with the team to build knowledge of existing live streaming-related systems and gain an understanding of needs from the larger team in order to translate those needs into useful projects and long-term roadmap
• Engage in scrum team activities (grooming, planning, standups, story writing, and prioritization)
• Provide clear vision to support technical development including : scope documentation, use cases, workflows, sequence diagrams, UML diagrams, etc.
• Work across domains and external teams to ensure all requirements are captured and detailed in JIRA.
• Align various partners 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
• Build a positive relationship with both Live Streaming Operations & Engineering; work together to find solutions and ensure that the development team has all the information they need to successfully complete initiatives

Qualifications
• 3-5 years of experience in product management for software development, with validated competence in prioritizing against business value and balancing trade-offs
• Strong passion for building workflow tools and supporting internal teams
• Deep understanding of complex technical workflow systems and tools, including video-related workflows
• Ability to define, prioritize and complete a Live Streaming product backlog across multiple systems and partners.
• Strong curiosity and understanding of the streaming media landscape
• Able to form valuable relationships with people across functional groups and facilitate effective product development
• Strong sense of standard processes for product management and have extensive experience with Agile development methodologies
• Excellent communication skills, ability to lead meetings and get results.

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

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