Product Manager

As a Senior Product Consultant embedded with our client in sports entertainment, you will be responsible for driving the delivery of world-class video and advertising experiences across web, mobile, and connected devices. This is a technically demanding space - spanning live streaming infrastructure, video delivery pipelines, and programmatic advertising - and you will need to be comfortable going deep with engineering teams, evaluating technical tradeoffs, and holding your own in conversations with vendors and architects. Working alongside the Senior Product Manager on the Video team and Director of Product on the Ads team, you will take ownership of roadmap execution and day-to-day delivery across these two high-impact product areas - Video and Ads - collaborating with engineering, design, and business stakeholders to ensure we ship with quality and velocity.


You will be an active contributor to product strategy: leading roadmap conversations, identifying new opportunities, developing use cases, and helping define initiatives from the ground up. You'll own meaningful scope across the product lifecycle - from discovery and problem definition through to launch - with direct exposure to and influence with senior product and business leadership at one of the world's most recognized sports entertainment brands.


Responsibilities:


Delivery & Execution


Own the operational health of the video and ads backlogs: grooming, ticket hygiene, user stories, sprint tracking, and release readiness across two squads


Lead coordination across a vendor ecosystem that includes the video player, encoding/pipeline, video analytics and observability, casting and cross-device continuity, and ad insertion partners - including holding vendors accountable to commitments and evaluating technical tradeoffs


Translate product direction into well-scoped product spec docs and ensure they stay accurate as work evolves


Own release tracking and delivery reporting, proactively surfacing risks and blockers before they become misses


Serve as the connective tissue between platform teams, engineering, QA, design, and external partners on a daily basis


Strategy


Drive roadmap and strategy conversations across Video and Ads - leading opportunity identification, initiative sizing, and prioritization decisions


Partner with the Ads Product Director to develop and maintain the ads roadmap; help shape what goes on it, not just execute what's there


Identify new product opportunities across streaming and monetization - bring structured thinking to early-stage ideas and develop them into business cases


Stay close to industry trends in streaming media, programmatic advertising, and emerging platforms; bring relevant signals back to the team and influence direction


Stakeholder & Product Development


Build and own direct relationships with client stakeholders across product, engineering, ad ops, and business teams


Lead the development of user-facing features - gather requirements, synthesize feedback, define success metrics


Drive new initiative discovery - interviews, use-case development, competitive research - as the team explores new product surface areas


Own product areas end-to-end: from problem definition through launch

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Required Skills & Experience

5+ years of product management experience on a digital product team


Sharp product instincts: you lead roadmap conversations, spot what's missing, and push back when something isn't right


Proven experience coordinating with external technical vendors or partners; comfortable holding people to commitments


Clear, precise written communication - your tickets, PRDs, and updates don't require follow-up questions


Track record of taking products from concept to launch


Curiosity about the business, not just the backlog - you want to understand why things are being built, not just what


Nice to Have Skills & Experience

Strong understanding of video streaming technologies, content delivery networks (CDNs), encoding, playback optimization, and digital video advertising


Hands-on experience with ad insertion platforms or DAI/SSAI workflows


Experience with video analytics (QoE) or observability platforms (Mux, Conviva, or similar)


Ability to analyze product data and translate insights into actionable improvements


Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including with senior client leadership


Demonstrated ability to take products from concept to launch as the directly responsible PM


Familiarity with third-party streaming platforms, analytics tools, and player integrations


Knowledge of accessibility standards, internationalization, and content rights management


Working knowledge of AI productivity tooling - prompt engineering, AI-assisted research or ticket writing, LLM tools for synthesis and planning - and a genuine interest in applying them to PM workflows


Prior consulting or embedded client engagement experience; comfort operating in a matrixed environment


Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.