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About The Role:
We are in search of an associate to fill the role of a Product Manager for Rich Media Products. An ideal candidate will have at least 5+ years of product management experience and a proven track record of end-to-end ownership and delivering results.
Responsibilities:
• Own the strategy and execution of Gracenote’s rich media datasets making trade-off decisions as needed. Work closely with clients/prospects to understand their business problems and meld that into a clear product vision that delivers a world-class solution to the market.
• Managing feature delivery timelines and communication with leaders and stakeholders on status, risks, and changes
• Build and maintain market and competitive intelligence and identify new opportunities for product innovation to enable richer user experiences on streaming platforms
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide the best-in-class tools to build cost-effective and quality products for our global clients.
• Provide pricing guidance to Sales and manage the overall business growth for the product line
• Anticipating and evaluating risks and making trade-offs to deliver products that scale, quickly
• Work cross-functionally with Engineers, CX Designers, and other Product Managers across various teams to deliver on the product roadmap
• Create mechanisms to continuously monitor the success of our technology against the outcomes that matter most to our customers
• Building strong partnerships with both technical and non-technical internal teams and integration teams externally to ensure product adoption and deliver value to large enterprise customers
• Work closely with UX and engineering to deliver simple intuitive user experiences for our B2B users of the solution and demonstrate these through intuitive demos
• Be the rich media products SME for Pay TV operators and smart device manufacturer clients
• Develop and own key performance metrics for your initiatives and guide deep dives as needed to diagnose anomalies, quality reporting, etc.
• Provide written guidance and documentation for sales and other cross-functional teams to support the product line
• Define and develop product positioning and messaging alongside product marketing teams
Requirements/Qualifications:
• The position requires native-level English fluency (C2), as the position supports US-based and EU customers.
• 5+ years of Product Management experience.
• Strong passion for TV/Movie content and rich media creation workflows to drive the best experience for the end user.
• Experience working with streaming platforms ideally with image workflows or experience working on the UX/UI of a streaming platform
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills
Additional Skills / Preferred Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree or higher. Computer Science/Engineering/Design major is preferable
• Experience working with Image Operations workflows/development
• Experience with ML technologies and familiarity with modern Image & manipulation techniques is a plus
• Experience with REST APIs, Recommendation Engine Algorithms etc. is a plus
• Experience in OTT, TV broadcast, or supporting customers who develop products for digital content consumption.
• Development experience with Gracenote, TMS, ROVI, or other structured entertainment databases a plus.
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ABOUT THE TEAM
Gracenote, a Nielsen company, provides music, video, and sports content along with technologies to the world's hottest entertainment products and brands, which is also a global standard for music and video recognition which is supported by the largest source of entertainment data. Gracenote features descriptions of more than 200 million tracks, TV listings for 85+ countries, and statistics from 4,500 sports leagues and competitions.
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