An entertainment organization is seeking a Technical Product Manager in remote, with a focus on the TVE backend platform.
About the Opportunity:
- Schedule: Monday to Friday
- Hours: Standard business
- Setting: Remote
Responsibilities:
- Define and manage the product roadmap, backlog, release plan, and measurable outcomes for the backend platform.
- Translate business, editorial, architecture, and engineering needs into product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and phased release plans
- Partner with engineering and architecture teams to define system behavior, API and data contracts, dependencies, and ownership boundaries
- Coordinate delivery across backend teams, front-end application teams, and external partners as the platform evolves
- Lead migration, cutover, and operational readiness planning, including rollback strategy, monitoring, runbooks, and launch criteria
Qualifications:
- 3+ years of experience as a Technical Product Manager, Platform Product Manager, or in a similar role delivering complex backend products or platform capabilities
- Experience working with engineers and architects on APIs, services, integrations, data flows, cloud environments, and system architecture
- Experience turning ambiguous, cross-functional needs into testable requirements, dependency maps, acceptance criteria, and delivery plans
- Strong understanding of platform reliability, observability, security, privacy, performance, scalability, and operational support
- Experience managing vendor-delivered capabilities and distinguishing vendor responsibility from internal ownership
- Experience planning complex migrations or platform transitions, including parallel runs, data migration, cutover, rollback, and decommissioning
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical tradeoffs, risks, and decisions to stakeholders and leadership
- Comfort working across multiple teams and workstreams while maintaining a system-level view of priorities and dependencies
Desired Skills:
- Experience with OTT or TV Everywhere platforms, live and on-demand video workflows, streaming media, sports, or digital publishing
- Familiarity with CMS and editorial tooling, media supply chains, metadata and catalog systems, DRM, SSAI/DAI, ad servers, authentication and entitlement, EPG data, blackout, and rights enforcement
- Experience with AWS, CDN delivery, API gateways, observability or QoE platforms, and highly available distributed systems
- Background in engineering, technical program management, solutions architecture, or media operations
