Senior Product Manager, Streaming & Subscriptions
$150,000–$180,000 year
On-siteNew York, United States
New York, United StatesOn-siteFull Time$150,000–$180,000 yearSenior LevelSportsLarge
Full TimeSenior LevelLargeSports
Job Summary
Build product vision and roadmaps for MLB's streaming and subscription ecosystem by synthesizing business objectives, platform needs, and fan experience goals into actionable deliverables. Lead product work across content discovery and streaming experiences, partnering with engineering, design, and operations to define scalable solutions for live, linear, and on-demand content. Document and prioritize the backlog with epics, user stories, and clear success metrics while forecasting timelines and managing dependencies across multi-team initiatives. Use analytics, experimentation, and research to measure performance, identify discovery opportunities, and drive prioritization decisions.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of digital product management experience
- Solid understanding of a Scrum Product Owner role
- Experience working with engineering and Quality Assurance teams
- Experience using agile methodologies
- Experience managing complex, cross-functional product initiatives
- Coordination across multiple teams, systems, and stakeholder groups
- Hands-on familiarity with APIs
- Familiarity with services architecture
- Familiarity with platform capabilities
- Familiarity with infrastructure concepts
- Ability to engage directly with engineering on technical tradeoffs
- Ability to make system design decisions
- Ability to define product contracts
- Reasonable technical understanding
- Ability to translate technical requirements and specifications into easily understood business concepts
- Ability to translate business concepts into technical requirements
- Experience developing requirement documents
- Experience developing user stories
- Experience developing wireframes
- Experience developing mockups
- Experience developing prototypes
- Experience developing user interaction diagrams
- Experience developing clear acceptance criteria
- Experience using analytics
- Experience using data to measure product performance
- Ability to evaluate return on investment
- Ability to drive prioritization and design decisions
- Experience with qualitative user research methods
- Experience with quantitative user research methods
- Ability to synthesize customer needs
- Ability to synthesize stakeholder input
- Ability to synthesize operational pain points
- Ability to synthesize technical constraints
- Ability to create a coherent product direction
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to create alignment across engineering, design, business stakeholders, operations, and leadership
- Familiarity with streaming video concepts
- Familiarity with playback workflows
- Familiarity with media metadata
- Familiarity with entitlements
- Familiarity with blackout restrictions
- Familiarity with advertising
- Familiarity with analytics
- Familiarity with content delivery
- Ability to think like an owner
- Ability to drive ideas forward from inception through execution
- Ability to get deeply embedded in the details
- Ability to bridge gaps across teams
- Ability to achieve target outcomes
- Ability to create transparency and accountability
- Ability to compile status
- Ability to identify risks
- Ability to escalate critical decisions
- Ability to communicate progress across complex, multi-month product initiatives
- Ability to stay informed on the evolving streaming landscape
- Ability to identify opportunities to improve fan experiences
- Ability to identify opportunities to improve product workflows
- Ability to identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency
- Ability to identify opportunities to improve development velocity
- Ability to identify problems and provide solutions
Desired Qualifications
- Product or design experience using video, streaming, or content platforms to engage fans and consumers
- Experience managing products at scale across connected devices, including Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV, game consoles, smart TVs, Web, iOS, and Android
- Experience with content discovery
- Experience with CMS-driven experiences
- Experience with media metadata systems
- Experience with personalization
- Experience with merchandising tools
- Experience with programming guides
- Experience with content platform services
- Experience with partner-facing APIs
- Experience with media distribution workflows
- Experience with rights metadata
- Experience with external content feeds
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