Sr. Product Manager - Personalization & Discovery (HBO Max)
Burbank, CA
Full Time
HBO Max
Requisition ID: 181404BR
The Job
The Sr Product Manager for Discovery & Personalization will take the lead in helping HBO MAX deliver consumer and business value by empowering users to define themselves through our platforms with tools like profiles, content discovery capabilities and social/community extensions. You are an effective cross-functional leader who can drive design, program and engineering teams to uncover, define, and implement product opportunities in the personalization and discovery space, leveraging consumer voice, data, market analysis, and business goals. Strong collaboration, analytical, and design thinking skills are key. You are able to adapt rapidly in a fast-moving environment with shifting priorities and react quickly, dynamically, and intelligently. You have strong product sense, as well as organizational and problem-solving skills. You are also experienced and comfortable navigating ambiguity and influencing without authority. You know what good looks like.
The Daily
Create product “documentation” including product requirements and use cases, to clearly define the product capabilities, down to a detailed level, accounting for positive and negative paths
Work tightly with Product Development team and UX/UI teams on requirements and wireframes/design development
Define the product capability roadmap, and work with Product Development to ensure feasibility and adjust where needed
Work with peers in Product Experience to ensure alignment with general product requirements and integration into unified roadmap
Clearly communicate the roadmap at all levels, including specific functionality offered at any given time point, to ensure all understand what a feature means and what the consumer will see
Help define and articulate longer-term strategies and determine those that need runway of work earlier to achieve timeline targets
Monitor and analyze key performance indicators and make recommendations based on data to improve the product
Research and analyze emerging trends in the marketplace and keep abreast of the competition to drive product requirements
Understand and communicate consumer behavior for products and features
Utilize data-driven decision making for prioritizing product feature backlog
Cultivate strong relationships among working teams and have exposure to senior leadership.
The Essentials
5+ years of applied Product Management experience
Strong understanding of SVOD marketplace and competitive dynamics
Prior Product Experience with a focus on the digital landscape, including video streaming, content distribution workflows and application development (in Media industry is a plus)
Be data-driven and have experience with analytic tools
Have a baseline understanding of the app submission process
Exceptionally strong communicator, skilled at aligning business leaders and managing shifting priorities
Ability to simplify complex concepts and provide the right level of detail to executive leaders
Drive technical communications with strategic partners to help drive internal and external alignment
Prior experience working within portfolio management systems (ex: Trello, Asana, Confluence) and bug tracking systems (ex: JIRA)
Proven track record of understanding product growth and developing strategic roadmaps
Direct experience in detailed planning and prioritization of epics and road mapping feature requests
High comfort level in analytics and generating business insights from data trends
Demonstrated ability to create Business Requirements Documents with little oversight
Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience
Previous experience digital media product management role and functional knowledge of related technologies (HTML, JS, CSS, iOS, Android, games consoles)
Self-starter, accountable and empowered
Collaborative work style
Detail-oriented
Warner Media, LLC and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.