Product Manager - Streaming (MLB.tv)

Company: MLB
Location: Boulder
Posted on: June 8, 2021

Job Description:

Heres your chance to work on industry-leading products such as MLB.TV where you can redefine the experience of watching Americas national pastime. As a Product Manager, you will work closely with your team to deliver an outstanding experience to baseball fans on Web, Mobile and Connected device platforms.Responsibilities: Execute on a roadmap and vision by converting abstract ideas into actionable steps and realistic deliverables for your scrum team.Document and prioritize a product backlog with epics and user stories accompanied by detailed acceptance criteria.Lead an Agile scrum team, forecast timelines, plan releases and coordinate cross-team deliverables.Your customers always come first. You will interview, analyze, observe and learn about your audience to create insights that will shape requirements, features and the product roadmap.Become a subject matter expert on the product, platform, and industry trends in streaming, connected TV and OTT marketplaces. Gain a deep understanding of customer motivations, problems, journeys, and usage patterns. Use analytics and data to measure product performance, return on investment and drive product prioritization and design decisions.Partner with engineering, user experience, and research teams to constantly experiment and design product solutions that incorporate user feedback through multiple iterations.Think like an owner to drive ideas forward from inception through execution, getting deeply embedded in the details and bridging the gaps where necessary to achieve target outcomes.Create alignment between engineering, business stakeholders and leadership. Be the first point of contact for questions and clarifications. Create transparency and accountability with mechanisms to compile status, identify risks and escalate critical product decisions and information. Basic Qualifications: 3+ years of digital product management experience.Solid understanding of a Scrum Product Owner role and experience working with engineering and QA teams using agile methodologies.Experience with qualitative and quantitative user research methods.Experience developing requirement documents, user stories, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and user interaction diagrams.Reasonable technical understanding and an ability to translate technical requirements and specifications into easily understood business concepts and vice versa.Product or design experience with using video and streaming as a platform to engage with fans and consumers is a plus. Why MLB?Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. Employees love working at MLB because of the culture of growth, teamwork, and professionalism. Employees who are most successful at MLB take initiative, know how to identify problems and provide solutions, and always put the Team first. For those ready to step up to the plate and join the Major Leagues, MLB takes the same approach as teams do with their players: empowering our workforce athletes to be at their best by engineering experiences that put employees in the best position to succeed. Major League Baseball is looking for candidates who are passionate about growing Americas pastime to best serve its fans for decades to come.MLBs vision is to be the global sport of choice for youth to play, fans of all backgrounds to enjoy and a desired destination for employment. With a belief that the journey to growth and greatness is ongoing, MLB gives employees the opportunity to continue learning and honing their skills with programs such as: tuition reimbursement; mentorship programs; lunch and learns; online course subscriptions; paid industry certifications; business resource groups; and more.MLB provides its employees with exceptional medical, dental, and vision coverage. Premiums are 100% employer covered to help employees focus on being their best!Are you ready to Step Up to the Plate? Apply below!

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