Staff Technical Product Manager

Staff Technical Product Manager - Media Services

About Brightcove

Brightcove is a team of smart, passionate people who are revolutionizing the way organizations deliver video. We’re excited about videos, storytelling, and about helping people connect by sharing experiences and viewing the world through streaming platforms. Bottom line: streaming content is the world’s most compelling, exciting medium, and Brightcove exists to connect business with their audiences through video and streaming services.

About the Role

The Staff Technical Product Manager will be responsible for defining and delivering new services and capabilities for the Brightcove Video Cloud platform. Our ideal candidate has direct experience with internet video delivery at large scale, and can work with both internal and external customers to build a vision for the product, determine appropriate success metrics, and drive execution of the roadmap. A key responsibility will be to understand the technical requirements in detail, including relevant standards and industry best practices, and to be able to work together with our engineering and support teams as a credible partner.

The Staff Technical Product Manager is expected to understand the market, the customer, and the business in order to make sound decisions on product features, priorities, and backlog - working closely with engineering, program management, and stakeholders from the field organization, marketing and definitional customers.

What you will do:

• Drive large product and platform initiatives around internet video at a global scale.
• Understand company strategy and bring clarity to product initiatives that bring value to our customers and to the business.
• Build a deep understanding of our customers' needs across multiple usage domains through direct customer engagement and partnership with our customer success team, account managers, and technical support staff.
• Become a product and technology subject matter expert for your areas of ownership.
• Develop roadmaps that deliver value in alignment with business priorities and team capacity.
• Partner with engineering and design to propose product and service solutions that deliver value. Communicate and distill customer needs and business objectives for product development teams.
• Adjust to ongoing changes in priority while driving value delivery.
• Support Marketing on go-to-market activities.
• Prepare Customer Success and Technical Support teams for support of new features and services.
• Evaluate and partner with vendors to deliver complete end-to-end solutions.

A successful Product Manager in the Brightcove product management team will use both qualitative and quantitative skills to assess product usage data, market research, customer feedback, design feedback, and sales feedback to propose improvements that will drive our media solutions — and Brightcove as a whole — to winning positions in the market. 

Requirements 

Minimum skills and knowledge:

• 8+ years hands-on product management experience.
• 3+ years experience working with online video technologies. You have direct experience working with customers and stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes in the video domain. You understand the current state of the market and have opinions about where there are challenges and opportunities.
• 1+ years of direct or adjacent experience with OTT solutions, live events, or video marketing.
• Technical fluency with the ability to speak credibly to both engineering teams and outside technical partners.
• Degree in computer science or other related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience defining a customer value proposition and driving a business case for a product investment.
• Strategic thinker with detail-oriented execution in a way that gets things done in a fast-paced, globally distributed organization.
• Proven outstanding team collaboration including strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong collaborator who is also sufficiently self-directed. 
• Comfortable working in a geographically distributed organization.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and turn feedback into accurately defined requirements that contribute to a robust platform - help expand the quality of our thinking.
• Proven passion for video technology and digital video; you want to be a part of the revolution that is taking place in redefining how digital video is created, delivered, and consumed.

Bonus, nice to have:

• Technical background in software development is a plus.

About Brightcove 

Brightcove is a diverse, global team of smart, passionate people who are revolutionizing the way organizations deliver video. We’re hyped up about storytelling, and about helping organizations reach their audiences in bold and innovative ways. When video is done right, it can have a powerful and lasting effect. Hearts open. Minds change. 

Since 2004, Brightcove has been supporting customers that are some of the largest media companies, enterprises, events, and non-profit organizations in the world. There are over 600 Brightcovers globally, each of us representing our unique talents and we have built a culture that values authenticity, individual empowerment, excellence and collaboration. This culture enables us to harness the incredible power of video and create an environment where you will want to grow, stay and thrive. Bottom line: We take our video seriously, and we take great pride in doing it as #oneteam.

WORKING AT BRIGHTCOVE 

We strive to provide our employees with an environment where they can do their best work and be their best selves. This includes a focus on our employees’ work experience, actively creating a culture where inclusion and growth are at the center, and hiring, recognizing, promoting employees who are committed to living and breathing these same ideals. We value collaboration, creativity, work/life balance, professional growth and creating an empowering space for open communication. Whether you’re in one of our offices around the world or working remotely you have plenty of opportunities to meet colleagues and celebrate a variety of personal interests with organized groups and clubs including an Employee Action Committee, Women of Brightcove, Pride of Brightcove, Parents of Brightcove … and more to come!

We recognize that no candidate is perfect and Brightcove would love to have the chance to get to know you. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. Brightcove embraces diversity and seeks candidates who support persons of all identities and backgrounds. We strongly encourage individuals from underrepresented and/or marginalized identities to apply. If you need any accommodations for your interview, please email [email protected]. 

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