Senior Product Manager, Android

Job Description

Pluto TV, a Paramount company, is the leading free streaming television service in America,

delivering 250+ live and original channels and thousands of on-demand movies in partnership

with major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. Pluto TV is

available on all mobile, web and connected TV streaming devices and millions of viewers tune

in each month to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, lifestyle, and trending digital

series. Headquartered in West Hollywood, Pluto TV has offices in New York, Silicon Valley,

Chicago and Berlin.

Pluto TV, a Paramount company, is the leading free streaming television service in America, delivering 250+ live and original channels and thousands of on-demand movies in partnership with major TV networks, movie studios, publishers, and digital media companies. Pluto TV is available on all mobile, web and connected TV streaming devices and millions of viewers tune in each month to watch premium news, TV shows, movies, sports, lifestyle, and trending digital series. Headquartered in West Hollywood, Pluto TV has offices in New York, Silicon Valley, Chicago and Berlin.
Overview

Pluto TV is free advertising supported television (FAST) and is focused on developing and optimizing features around the world. Pluto TV is looking for a Senior Product Manager, Android to develop video functionality and experiences on the Pluto platform for VOD and Linear TV at scale. The ideal candidate will have working knowledge of working with streaming platforms like Android/Fire TV, Roku, Apple iOS/tvOS or CTVs.

As a Senior Product Manager, Android, you'll be joining our Client Platform team focused on working with a cross-functional agile team and internal stakeholders to develop user experiences to grow key KPIs such as Monthly Active Users (MAUs), Total Viewing Minutes (TVMs) and revenue generation by supporting advertising products. You'll manage the partner intake and launch process, oversee and manage the daily scrum teams and backlog and be responsible for managing the quarterly roadmap and planning process as well as managing key external partnerships. This role will offer significant value to the organization by improving the power of the streaming platform to support the many products and services that are built upon the platform and apps. This role requires executional skill and a proficiency in balancing multiple priorities that will strengthen the stability, performance, and capabilities of our platform.

Responsibilities
• Define, deliver, and measure progress against OKRs in your domain in service of the larger organizational and company-wide OKRs
• Serve as the customer voice in development ceremonies
• Partner with stakeholders while serving as the platform/product evangelist for the products within your domain
• Manage external device partnerships including setting quarterly partner objectives, providing subject matter expertise to partner engagement teams and managing partner communications and relationships.
• Own product KPIs. Measure and improve upon QoS / QoE metrics
• Execute on several initiatives concurrently
• Manage priority shifts, dependency/sequence considerations, and sprint injections
• Keep internal and external stakeholders informed of roadmaps
• Working as a servant-leader within the team, using leadership skills to foster healthy and productive working relationships within your teams
• Negotiate priority, sequence and scope of delivery while optimizing business value
• Developing and maintaining a healthy working relationship with other functional teams throughout the organization, including but not limited to data integration, Business Intelligence, DevOps, STE, and Legal
• Driving your teams to balance speed and executional excellence
• Actively identifying and removing impediments that may impact team velocity or deliverables

Requirements
• 5+ years of experience in software product management in a complex technical environment
• Experience and knowledge in Agile software development ideally focused on B2C applications
• Adept with software development teams to remove cross-team dependencies, with validated experience driving those teams to higher levels of productivity and efficiency
• Experience balancing priorities, driving partner reporting, and interfacing between a technical team and business partners
• Solid understanding of data, and ability to communicate with others, proficient in the language of data
• Experience using data to drive important business decisions
• Organized, detail-oriented, and able to multi-task
• Able to work independently, but also a team player who can collaborate well with internal stakeholders
• A strong attention to detail, with outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Flexible in an ever-changing environment

Preferences:
• Working knowledge of streaming technologies
• CTV/VOD/OTT experience and domain knowledge
• Los Angeles area or West Coast based is preferred, but open to other remote locations

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

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r0e6n8-3-141-31-240-42 in your application.