Director of Product Management, Content Platforms

Job Summary & Responsibilities:

MotorTrend is looking for a Director of Product (full-time, salaried, regular) to join our Content Platform team. The MotorTrend’s Content Platforms powers our digital products across web, mobile apps, connected tv apps and more. We are on a mission to streamline our content publishing systems and workflow to make them easy to use, scalable and best in class.

The ideal candidate will own the Content platform from start-to-finish, developing product opportunities focused on driving improvements around CMS & Video workflows, APIs, content ingestion, asset management, metadata, digital rights management, CDN and transcoding.

Essential duties and responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Own and drive the product roadmap for the evolution of our content platforms, with input from business stakeholders and editorial teams
• Collaborate with the Engineering and Design team to enhance our publishing systems and build new capabilities
• Shadow CMS & VMS users and analyze usage patterns to discover user interaction pain points
• Assist with developing products and processes to create the most efficient workflow for content creation and publishing
• Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners
• Write detailed requirements for business stakeholders, Engineering and Infrastructure teams
• Update wiki documentation and contribute to training materials
• Prioritize a backlog of bugs and feature enhancements
• Proactively identify and resolve strategic issues that may impair the team’s ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals

Supervisory Responsibility:

• This position will include supervising one or more employees.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, User Experience or related discipline with a focus on digital media or digital product management
• 7-10 years digital media product management experience – conceptualizing, defining, and delivering products to targeted audiences
• Digital technology experience in either a Product or Strategy role
• Experience working with a range of stakeholders on production, editorial and engineering teams
• Experience with CDNs, Content Management Systems and metadata tagging/taxonomy
• Experience with asset management and back-end services/APIs
• Experience with video workflows, transcoding and digital rights management
• Knowledge of headless content management systems such as Contentful
• Familiarity with ad technology and integrations (nice to have, but not a deal breaker)

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

• Informed decision-making skills based on best practices, analytics, industry / technology trends
• A demonstrated track record of successful product execution and leading cross-functional terms to deliver high-quality products
• To be a team player with the flexibility to get things done in a fast-past editorial environment
• Technical fluency; comfort understanding and discussing technology concepts and new features with technical team members
• A love of documentation, details, and diving head-first into solving our business user problems
• Proven track record of balancing multiple projects at once and delivery of projects successfully on time
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Highly detail oriented, strong technical intuition, organized and collaborative.
• Flexible and adaptable to change

Physical Requirements:

• The ability to sit for prolonged period of time and view computer screen.

Equipment/Software Used:

• Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Google Suite

Work Environment:

• Work is performed in an office environment that is well lit and ventilated.