Sr. Product Manager, Web

Discovery Communications (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) is the leader in global entertainment reaching 3 billion cumulative subscribers in more than 220 countries and territories. For more than 30 years Discovery has been satisfying curiosity and entertaining viewers with high-quality content through its global brands, led by Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, Science and Turbo/Velocity, as well as U.S. joint venture network OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, and through the Discovery Digital Networks portfolio, including TestTube, Seeker and SourceFed. Discovery owns Eurosport, the leading pan-regional sports entertainment destination across Europe and Asia-Pacific. Discovery also is a leading provider of educational products and services to schools, including an award-winning series of K-12 digital textbooks, through Discovery Education.

We are seeking candidates for the position of Sr. Product Manager, Web to be located in our New York City Office.

Position Summary:
Discovery Digital Media is looking for an experienced product professional to serve as the Product Owner for our suite of responsive websites across Discovery's US TV brands. The Sr. Product Manager will work in an Agile development environment and will be responsible for all aspects of the agile product development process. This includes feature prioritization, running product councils, managing the prioritization of work to maximize the benefit to users and the business, authoring user stories, competitive analysis, creating prototypes, running A/B tests, working with research to run usability testing and playing the role of user advocate in the design and development of a user-centric product.

Your first project will be a major redesign (and rebuild) of the owned and operated sites with a focus on improving the authenticated full episode video consumption experience for users. This will require exceptional collaboration throughout the process with the usual stakeholders, as well as third-party vendors.

The ideal candidate has previous experience working on large, video-centric entertainment sites, is detail-oriented, has a proven track record as a digital product leader and is equally comfortable working with producers, designers, developers and sales teams in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment. Previous experience redesigning large-scale sites is a plus. You will have a passion for digital media and the insatiable interest in new technologies and emerging platforms required to consistently remain a thought leader. For you to succeed in this role, you should be driven, focused, and comfortable leading through influence and working collaboratively. A strategic thinker and relentless customer advocate, you always think about our fans first, and take pride in making their Discovery digital experience the best it can be.

Responsibilities:
1. Create and test unique user experience models for delivering and consuming video in a WordPress environment
2. Develop a deep understanding of the product and its customers through interviews, data, user testing and hands-on usage.
3. Write clear and concise product requirements that enable an engaging and monetizable customer experience.
4. Ensure product definition and product life-cycle roadmap support the business drivers (i.e., revenue, audience, cost savings, strategic value)
5. Support the product vision for a new video-centric site, incorporating ideas from stakeholders in content production, senior management and the mobile product team.
6. Understand, evaluate and proactively pursue opportunities to improve product performance
7. Create concise product documents to justify (ROI) investments
8. Support written product requirements with wireframes, visual designs and interactive prototypes.
9. Exercise Lean product development principles by finding fast, inexpensive ways to validate ideas before building them.
10. Lead cross-functional teams through definition, development, release and maintenance.
11. Do acceptance testing and manage product backlog with project managers and business analysts.
12. Identify, evaluate and work collaboratively with vendors/partners.
13. Foster effective team work by proactively sharing information and working collaboratively with internal stakeholders including: project management, engineering, research, sales, and finance.
14. Manage social media product components and look for ways to improve performance.
15. Quantify, track and regularly reporting on KPI metrics to goal(s) img.img { width: 0px !important;}

*Bachelor's degree in business, marketing or equivalent experience. MBA preferred.
*6+ years' experience in the creation of digital media products, or working in a product management function at a web publisher with a focus on video, or B2C video platform company. Proven ability to think strategically about market needs, business impact, and product design.
*Excellent communication skills. Strong written and verbal skills. Self-starter with ability to work independently and take initiative.
*Experience in Agile product development as product owner.
*Experience shipping web applications.
*Experience with prototyping software, wireframes and user flows. Ability to translate ideas into clickable prototypes.
*Experience working closely with editorial, design/IA, engineering, sales, operations and business teams with proven success leading these cross-functional teams through digital product/features releases.
*Strong analytical and problem solving skills; with experience using metrics to prove assumptions and concepts, including running A/B tests.
*Must have excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to articulate product concepts to a variety of audiences. Prior hands-on experience with Content Management Systems, including WordPress
*Prior experience with Optimizely, Google Analytics, Freewheel, Jira/Confluence, Proto.io, Photoshop
*Understanding of basic code and web service/API fundamentals: HTML, CSS, PHP and JavaScript.
*Understand the basics of video players and video ecosystems
*Experience with social media products and how they integrate with content web sites. Bonus points for experience with Facebook Instant Articles and/or Google AMP.
*Must have the legal right to work in the United States.

Discovery Communications, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Discovery is committed to being an employer of choice, not just a good place to work, but a great and inclusive place to work. To that end, we strive to recruit and maintain a workforce that meaningfully represents the diverse and culturally rich communities that we serve. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disabled status or, genetic information.

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