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Senior Manager, Product – Online Video, Comcast, May 18

imagesWho: Comcast
Position: Senior Manager, Product – Online Video
Where: Seattle
What: Engineering and Platform Services helps drive the new generation of products that are transforming Comcast into a media and technology company. Engineering manages the operations for Comcast’s industry-leading video, high-speed Internet and voice services for consumers and businesses, and runs a network that supports numerous multi-billion dollar businesses.

Platform Services includes three companies owned by Comcast, namely FreeWheel, STRATA and thePlatform, plus the Comcast Wholesale, Advanced Advertising, and Advertising Technology organizations. These companies are creating next-generation technology for the fast-growing advanced advertising market. They enable and innovate solutions to support both traditional and emerging programmatic and premium advertising markets through our platforms, data, marketplace and sales channels.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the product strategy, roadmap and manages the lifecycle for a set of solutions that comprise thePlatform’s mpx product, the industry-leading Online Video Platform (OVP) from Comcast Wholesale. mpx consists of a suite of video management, publishing and workflow orchestration services and solutions powering the needs of programmers, MVPDs, and OTT TV providers. The Sr. Manager of Product Management owns product strategy, roadmap development and collaborates closely with Product Development, Engineering, Operations, Marketing, Sales, Finance, Legal and other executive stakeholders/disciplines, including other product leaders within Comcast Wholesale to ensure current and evolving customer needs are met.
Serves as the “voice of the customer” ensuring all current and future product needs are met. Customer perspective will be informed through extensive direct collaboration with customers, partners and internal Sales teams.
Establishes overall product vision/strategy including defining the product roadmap and establishes overall product direction and development priorities. Develops business cases and associated ROI models for new product development initiatives and collaborates with Product Development to ensure customer requirements are accurately translated into product/feature specifications.
Partners with Sales, Product Development and other key stakeholders elicit product requirements and other supporting product development documentation including user stories and methods & procedures. Manages customer feedback to ensure required changes are incorporated into the product roadmap. Proactively seeks continuous feature and process improvements.
Collaborates closely with engineering, product development and Finance to develops and own underlying cost and economic models for the platform and associated feature sets.
Owns product pricing strategy and collaborates with other Product owners to develop cohesive bundling and merchandising models.
Partners with Marketing to set overall go-to-market strategy and to author and develop required product marketing deliverables and collateral.
Supports execution of product launches and go-to-market activities.
Supports complex sales proposal and solution development.
Develops key relationships across the ecosystem and is a recognized thought leader; represents the business at key industry conferences and participates in relevant industry working groups.
Develops strategies for targeting new adjacent markets/customers.
Works directly with Engineering and Operations to support capacity planning, product/feature development, and implement operational support frameworks to optimize the customer experience.
Supports the budget and resource forecasting process.
Interfaces directly with Legal to develop and maintain contract templates and mutually acceptable customer agreements.

Requirements: 

Generally requires 3-5 years related experience in online video services, ideally with an OVP, OTT video infrastructure provider, or other related service provider.
At least 2 years hands on experience managing all phases of product management lifecycle in an agile development environment.
At least 1 years product development experience with large-scale customer-facing technology products.
Should have deep working knowledge of OTT video management, publishing and syndication, and other related video management and distribution services (e.g. acquisition, encoding, packaging, DRM, video/web content management, metadata management, publishing, authentication and entitlements, DAI, CDN, playout and analytics).
Proven expertise in and understanding of OTT commerce and monetization models (e.g. syndication, SVOD/AVOD/TVOD, TVEverywhere, and OTT Pay TV) and their associated technology stacks and instrumentation.
Exposure to end-to-end product development lifecycle including ideation, definition, development, acceptance testing, and operations using an agile software development methodology like Scrum, Kanban, XP, TDD, RAD, etc.
Exposure to UX development and UX definition of customer experiences.
Proven ability to internalize and represent the “voice of the customer” throughout the product lifecycle and deliver on the defined end-to-end customer experience quickly grasps customer needs and understands dynamic new markets.
Broad set of general management skills; ability to work intuitively across all core business disciplines including Sales, Finance, Marketing, Legal, Product Development and Engineering & Op

How: Apply Here