Senior Product Manager

Company Description

Artech is the 10th Largest IT Staffing Company in the US, according to Staffing Industry Analysts' 2012 annual report. Artech provides technical expertise to fill gaps in clients' immediate skill-sets availability, deliver emerging technology skill-sets, refresh existing skill base, allow for flexibility in project planning and execution phases, and provide budgeting/financial flexibility by offering contingent labor as a variable cost.

Job Description

Are you a seasoned product professional that wants to shape the future of TV?

As a Senior Product Manager on the Client Video Product team, you will change the way people think about and watch their television. You’ll join a team that is rapidly changing the landscape of TV through its Emmy-award receiving X1 platform that is already redefining the industry. In particular, you’ll be working on how customers stream internet video from top content partners to their X1 set top.

Join our team to bring the streaming revolution to cable TV.

Who will you work with?

You’ll work with the best and brightest minds in Client across both our headquarters in Philadelphia as well as our development center in Silicon Valley, CA.

As typical in product management leadership, you operate at the intersection between engineering, design, and the business. In this role, you will collaborate with a number of other support teams throughout the company such as our video rendering backend and metadata services team. You’ll work directly with 3rd party content creators and services (think Netflix, YouTube, NBC Sports Digital and more), translating their content into a first class viewing experience on X1.

You’ll be joining a team of product managers focused on enhanced video content experiences on the X1 set top box. This is part of a larger group run by the VP of Product Management responsible for how Client better serves sports fans and brings new types of content like streaming video and music to the set top box.

What are some of the interesting problems you’ll work on?

Streaming internet video has changed how we consume entertainment on the go and on multiple smaller screens around the home. Taking the best parts of streaming internet video to the biggest screen in the house, you’ll help evolve the set top box beyond channel grids and Video on Demand menus to almost limitless live and VOD streaming entertainment options. You’ll also help our business and content partners monetize through digital ad insertion and subscription revenue.

What will your responsibilities be?

· Assist in defining and driving product strategy for this area. Balance focus between near-term (within next 6 months) and the long term (1-2 years out). Challenge the status quo.

· Collaborate with other product managers and colleagues from design, development, business, marketing, editorial, support, legal, and operations to develop product strategies and requirements; successfully deliver streaming content to our subscribers

· Interact with 3rd party product, business and technology counterparts; develop productive relationships to facilitate delivery from start to finish.

· Understand the customer by working with research, understanding quantitative metrics, and by spending time yourself with customers directly, including understanding how they use competitive offerings.

· Keep the organization informed of what you and your team is doing. Communicate with executives & stakeholders on product usage & performance, and gather feedback

What We’re Looking For

Our ideal candidate will have the following traits:

· Passion for video entertainment, whether it’s live TV, movies, YouTube clips or something else.

· 4+ years of successful experience building, managing, and/or supporting consumer products on mobile or web;

· 7+ years of product management experience in a technology environment

· Strong analytical & strategic planning skills; know when perfect is the enemy of good

· Ability to make decisions quickly and independently; good shipped, is better than perfect on paper

· Strong communication and interpersonal skills; capable of interacting with customers, Senior Leadership and 3rd party content partners on complex topics

· Comfortable working and driving a fast paced agile environment.

· Ability to travel (typically once a month) either to 3rd party partners or the other coast’s development center; ability to successfully work with multiple remote teams to deliver products

Nice to have, but not required:

· Prior experience with developing applications for set top boxes, connected TVs or gaming consoles

· Good understanding or experience in one or more of the following areas: streaming video formats/playback/content delivery, DRM, DAI, subscription services

Additional Information

If you are interested, please contact:

Sophia

973-507-7563