Senior Technical Product Manager for Video Product

Company: Comcast
Location: Irvine
Posted on: February 1, 2025

Job Description:

At Comcast, we are pioneers in media and technology, driving innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. As a Technical Product Manager, you will play a crucial role in shaping the video playback experience for Xumo Play and Xumo Enterprise distribution platforms.

Core Responsibilities

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• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver best-in-class products that enhance our customers' viewing experience.
  
• Generate product strategy and execution that will drive the success of our streaming services from signal acquisition, encoding and transcoding, through to monetization and outbound delivery.
  
• Partner with Video Engineering to create, maintain and innovate the Video Engineering and Product roadmap.
  
• Communicate with external Content Partners on various business matters related to video streaming architecture, specification review, troubleshooting and more.
  
• Close supervision of budget and related costs associated with video infrastructure.
  
• Video operation support, to include replication and deployment of key video services (in close collaboration with Video Engineering team).
  
• Build out and supervision of new/advanced virtual Xumo NOC and corresponding monitoring systems.
  
• Take ownership of the product development process, from ideation to launch, and ensure that all products meet quality standards and are delivered on time and within budget.
  
• Use data and analytics to inform product decisions and continuously improve the video playback experience for our viewers.
  
• Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in technology and use your knowledge to identify opportunities for leveraging new technologies in full video infrastructure stack.
  
• Communicate product updates and progress to key stakeholders, including senior leadership, and solicit feedback to continually improve our products.
  
• Represent the company at industry events and conferences, sharing how Xumo approaches FAST content delivery both for our owned and operated services and via our syndication pipeline.
  
  
  This role requires a highly motivated and organized individual with excellent communication skills and the ability to drive and lead meetings around business systems and/or related topics. Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities are essential, as well as experience launching/scaling products and features to solve complex challenges.
  
  Basic Qualifications
  
  
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  • Bachelor's degree in technology related fields, such as Computer Science, Information Systems, or related technology certification.
    
  • Minimum of five (5) years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experiences.
    
  • Minimum of five (5) years of leading and/or directly involved in product/software development with relevant experience with OTT video streaming technologies (HLS/DASH/DRM) and cloud infrastructure.
    
  • Excellent communication skills with ability to drive and lead meetings around business systems and/or related topics as well as efficiently and effectively communicate with cross functional partners from highly technical to business oriented.
    
  • Analytical mind & strong problem-solving capabilities with experience launching/scaling products and features to solve complex challenges.
    
  • Strong collaborator with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
    
  • Strong organizational, analytical, and troubleshooting skills.
    
  • Strong process and systems background with knowledge and experience in agile development/project methodologies.
    
    
    Please visit the Comcast careers website for more information on our compensation and benefits packages.
    
    We are an equal opportunity employer
    
    We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. Comcast is an EOE/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer.

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