Senior Product Manager (Video)
Apply Digital·5 months ago
RESPONSIBILITIES
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Drive roadmap and strategy conversations for video: opportunity identification, initiative sizing, and prioritization.
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Help shape the video roadmap with the Lead PM: what goes on it, not just what ships.
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Identify new product opportunities across streaming and monetization. Bring structured thinking to early-stage ideas and develop them into business cases.
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Stay close to industry trends in streaming media and emerging platforms, bring relevant signals back to the team, and influence direction.
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Build direct relationships with client stakeholders across product, engineering, and business teams.
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Lead the development of user-facing features: gather requirements, synthesize feedback, define success metrics.
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Drive new initiative discovery (interviews, use-case development, competitive research) as the team explores new product surface areas.
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Keep video consistent across web, mobile, CTV, and every app, and work through tradeoffs between platform teams.
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Report on outcomes in business terms (engagement, playback quality, monetization), using QoE and analytics data.
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Own product areas end to end, from problem definition through launch.
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Keep the video backlog healthy: grooming, ticket quality, user stories, sprint tracking, and release readiness.
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Coordinate across the vendor ecosystem, including the video player, encoding/pipeline, video analytics and observability, and casting and cross-device continuity. Hold vendors to their commitments and evaluate technical tradeoffs.
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Translate product direction into well-scoped spec docs and keep them accurate as work evolves.
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Track releases and report on delivery, surfacing risks and blockers early.
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Serve as the connective tissue between platform teams, engineering, QA, design, and external partners.
Strategy
Stakeholder & Product Development
Delivery & Execution
REQUIREMENTS
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5+ years of product management experience on a digital product team.
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Sharp product instincts: you lead roadmap conversations, spot what’s missing, and push back when something isn’t right.
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Track record of taking products from concept to launch.
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Curiosity about the business, not just the backlog. You want to understand why things are being built, not just what.
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Clear, precise written communication. Your PRDs and updates don’t require follow-up questions.
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Solid organization and follow-through.
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Comfort working with external technical vendors or partners and holding people to commitments.
NICE TO HAVE
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Ability to analyze product data and translate insights into actionable improvements.
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Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including with senior client leadership.
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Project delivery experience, such as facilitating agile ceremonies (standup, sprint planning, retrospectives) and managing timelines, risks, and dependencies.
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Familiarity with third-party streaming platforms, analytics tools, and player integrations.
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Working knowledge of AI tools for PM work, such as prompt engineering, AI-assisted research, and LLM tools for synthesis and planning, and an interest in applying them to PM workflows.
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Prior consulting or embedded client experience, and comfort operating in a matrixed environment.
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Experience with analytics or observability platforms (Adobe, Amplitude, Mixpanel, etc).
WHY THIS ROLE?
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You’ll work embedded inside one of the most recognized sports leagues in the world, on a product used by tens of millions of fans.
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You’ll get deep exposure to a sophisticated, high-stakes technology stack spanning live streaming, video delivery, and monetization, the kind of experience that accelerates a PM career.
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Opportunity to grow. As you build trust and show product leadership, you can take on broader scope within the engagement.
Market context
Measured from remote postings we have tracked ourselves — not self-reported survey data.
What Senior Product roles in Americas pay
- 25th
- $138k
- Median
- $167k
- 75th
- $189k
Based on 1,716 comparable postings with disclosed salaries, last 12 months.
How Apply Digital is hiring
- Last 90 days
- 35 roles
- Total tracked
- 154
- Hiring across
- 10 job families
Tracked since September 2023.