Description
We are looking for a Product Manager to own the video player for the Red Bull Streaming Platform.
The successful candidate will lead the Player Squad, a cross-platform team of player engineers, and own the vision, roadmap, and quality bar for every player and player SDK the platform ships.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the Player Squad: set priorities, run planning and refinement, and act as the single product owner for the player engineers
- Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the video player and player SDKs on every platform
- Define what the player and the SDKs become over the next three years and sequence the work to get there
- Own the playback experience end to end: live, linear, and video on demand over HLS and DASH
- Own advertising within the player: define and prioritize the ad insertion roadmap
- Collaborate with the encoding team on how ads are signaled and inserted across our streams
- Collaborate with the Google Ad Manager and Ad Operations teams on ad decisioning, configuration, and reporting
- Take in and triage feature requests from the Red Bull TV, ServusTV On, and Rally.TV tenants and from the client product teams
- Set and hold a high bar for quality and user experience: define the player test strategy with QA
- Define success metrics before launch and review them after
- Own the product side of the shared video player SDKs used by Red Bull native apps and web properties
- Manage player and advertising vendor relationships, including SDK licensing and build versus buy decisions
- Lead player incident triage during live events and for playback or advertising escalations
Requirements:
- Fluent in English (German is advantageous)
- 3+ years of experience in Product Management owning a video player, streaming playback, or video advertising product
- Deep working knowledge of HLS and DASH streaming protocols
- Hands-on experience with video advertising: client-side, server-side, and server-guided ad insertion
- Experience with the AWS Elemental Media Services suite (MediaLive, MediaPackage, MediaTailor) or equivalent live streaming infrastructure
- Familiarity with interactive player features such as multi-view, live timeline events, in-player overlays, and shoppable or data-driven formats
- Experience leading a squad of engineers and setting the quality bar for what ships
- Experience with quality of experience and ad performance tooling such as Datadog, Datazoom, Conviva, or ad server reporting
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