Lead Product Manager

Job Description

Overview and Responsibilities:

The Video Technology Group develops industry-leading online, mobile and OTT video delivery systems. Our team is responsible for building and maintaining video encoding, packaging, and delivery platforms for on-demand, live, and virtual-live streaming workflows along with corresponding integrations with the player, CMS, and publishing pipelines. We set company-wide video standards and help internal business units integrate the video delivery stack into their specific online products. Additionally, the team serves as the company's information resource on current and future trends in digital video. This is a great opportunity for someone who is interested in doing high-visibility, mission-critical work!

The Video Technology Group works across the entire video ecosystem to enable all ViacomCBS business units to deliver high-quality video through the use of ground breaking technologies in order to maximize user engagement and revenue.

Role Details:

We are looking for a Lead Product Manager who is passionate about large scale video ecosystems and cares about the discovery, design, and delivery of best-in-class consumer applications. Does this sound like you? As a Lead Product Manager, you'll be responsible for partnering with VTG leadership and stakeholders of digital video infrastructure across ViacomCBS.

Your Day-to-Day:

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
Own product KPIs. Measure and improve upon QoS / QoE metrics

Close feature gaps and strengthening the value propositions through competitive analysis

Execute on several initiatives concurrently

Manage priority shifts, dependency/sequence considerations, and sprint injections

Keep internal and external stakeholders informed of roadmaps

Negotiate priority, sequence and scope of delivery while optimizing business value

Take initiative and proactively find ways to remove barriers in moving initiatives forward to drive customer adoption

Key Projects:

Rollout new microservice for VOD chunked-encoding orchestrated via Kubernetes and experiment with Per-Title & Per-Scene ML Driven Encoding Approaches
Own cloud-based Linear VOD platform supporting local news feeds and enhance it with features to enable localization and personalization using machine learning

Required Qualifications:

2+ years of experience with end to end product delivery leading complex media, technology or product launches in the consumer software industry

5+ years as a product manager, technical program manager, or related engineering or operations role

Streaming video acumen: video compression, AAC video and audio codec standards, live and VOD content delivery, packaging formats, signal acquisition protocols and http streaming formats (HLS/DASH)

Additional Qualifications:

Familiarity working with GitHub projects and ''Aha!'' product road-mapping software is a plus

Strong technical acumen, fundamental knowledge of key cloud technologies and tools (AWS, Azure, Docker, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes)

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