Job Title: Director/Sr. Manager Product Management, Media Applications
Location: North America - Foster City, CA
Department: Product Marketing & User Experience
Reports To: VP, Product Marketing
Your job will be to drive and own the development of our applications and services. The Director/Sr. Manager Product Management, Media Applications works closely with Product MKTG, Biz Dev and senior mgmt to turn requirements into (tangible) products and services. This critical position works with Engineering, developers, UI design, research, QA, Beta and third party outsourcers to create and turn PRDs and functional specs into reality. This position requires a passion for user-experience and first-hand experience in the design and launch of native and hosted apps. The position is located in Foster City , CA .
Responsibilities:
You MUST:
- Have successful experience in leading product development for native and online consumer-oriented applications and services (ideally entertainment focused );
- Be an ‘owner’ and a ‘problem solver’, and willing to take the bull by the horns and own molding and evolving Sling products
- Continuously improve product quality and user-experience in a highly-competitive and dynamic business environment ;
- Work closely with development teams to develop world-class, user-facing software
- Work closely with Program Managers, Product Managers, and executives to shape and guide Sling products, both existing and new.
- Aggressively explore new technologies enabling Sling to maintain and advance its position as a leader in place-shifting products
- Work at multiple organizational levels and across numerous projects simultaneously, both in a hands-on capacity as well as directing the work of others
- Intuitively understand our products and services what they do, and what benefits user derive
- Work closely with the technology teams (Dev, QA, Ops) to help improve quality and user-experience Work closely with product management, research, and senior leaders to provide input into the next generation software
- Both strong team leadership and hands-on execution (e.g., creating wireframes, functional specs, process/user flows, etc.) will be required for success in this position.
- This role will include working closely with our IT, development and marketing teams, other business units and outside vendors.
- Work closely with other User Experience professionals, including information architects, designers and developers
- Proficient with MS PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Project
Experience:
- 6+ years successful experience in product management/development with experience developing entertainment-focused software a plus;
- Experience in rapid design and development processes;
- Experience with an Agile development, XP, Scrum, or a similar methodology desirable
- Experience successfully managing development teams to successful releases of world-class software;
- Excellent analytical and communications skills, and ability to write technical documentation;
- Demonstrated success in the field of product design and development
- Strong communicator with extensive experience in building and fostering stakeholder consensus throughout the project lifecycle.
- Extensive experience in managing geographically-distributed, cross-competency software development teams
Critical Competencies:
- Deep understanding of consumer technologies, including audio/video, mobile and Internet media
- Knowledge of software infrastructure/architecture, streaming media, mobile products,
- Ability to communicate to all levels of management and with partners
- Independent hard working individual with leadership qualities
- General understanding of key platform technologies including, .NET, C#, C++, WPF, web services (REST), video streaming, codecs, etc
- Excellent organization and time management skills
- Superior interpersonal, teamwork, and collaboration skills
- Strong written and oral presentation skills
- Assertive and creative
Contact: jobs@slingmedia.com (please reference requisition #177) |
