Product Manager
Department Summary
At SLING TV, we operate at the intersection of culture and invention, redefining the meaning of consumer choice to evolve our product and the medium it helped invent.
More than five years after helping millions of Americans cut the cord and disrupting Pay TV for good, our product continues to thrive because of the culture that helped shape it. We foster opportunity both for our customers and the employees who serve them.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
As a Sling TV Product Manager, you will be accountable for ensuring solutions are both valuable (our customers choose to buy or use them) and viable (the solution works within the business's many constraints). You will talk to users, synthesize quantitative and qualitative information, and make decisions about which problems or opportunities are the highest priority to pursue. Finally, you'll strategically craft the vision of the solution needed and how it fits into the overall product, and tactically ensure smooth execution of that solution.
Responsibilities
- Lead problem and solution discovery, testing and experimenting in collaboration with other roles to understand real users' motivations, goals, and pain points and to reduce key value, viability, usability, and feasibility risks
- Lead and collaborate closely with your cross-functional product team, consistently articulating product strategy, sharing learnings both good and bad, making difficult decisions and being accountable for them, prioritizing ruthlessly, representing the team throughout organization, and nurturing strong collaborative relationships within the team
- Own the execution and excellence of your product(s) - be scrappy, solve problems, and take an entrepreneurial approach to deliver against business outcomes and create a delightful viewer experience
- Assess competing or similar products in the fast-changing media, television, and digital video landscape
- Become an acknowledged expert in and evangelist of the current state, future goals, functionality, and roadmap of your part of the user journey
- Contribute a solid knowledge of the various constraints of the business; constraints from marketing, sales, support, finance, legal, and privacy are typical examples.
- Fill the Scrum role of product owner on your team, ensuring the product backlog is transparent, visible, understood, and in priority order
- Define, monitor, and analyze product and business metrics, and feed learnings back into the product development process
Skills, Experience and Requirements
Requirements
- 2+ years of product management experience with history of shipping high scale consumer digital products, ideally native mobile or video applications
- Bachelor's degree rquired in one of the following areas: Electronic and Communication Engineering, Marketing, Business Analytics, Information Technology, or Computer Science.
- Keen interest in the digital video, streaming, and TV industries
- Passion for collaborating, iterating, and testing with Product Design and Engineering to discover solutions that exceed user expectations and drive business results
- Obsession with customers and experience personally conducting user research, testing, and optimization
- High comfort level in analytics and generating customer insights from data trends
- Can think strategically but is able to roll up your sleeves, get stuff done, and sweat the details
- Can communicate clearly and effectively - on paper, in person, over email/chat - across all functions and levels of the org as well as externally with partners
- Ability to lead and inspire teams to deliver on our goals
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Salary Range
Compensation: $90,000.00/Year - $143,000.00/Year
Benefits
From versatile health perks to new career opportunities, check out our benefits on our careers website .
Candidates need to successfully complete a pre-employment screen, which may include a drug test.