Product Manager
Location: Glendale, CA
Employment Type: Contract
Job ID: 140819
Date Added: 05/05/2025
Location: Glendale, CA – Onsite 3-4 days a week
The Company
Headquartered in Los Angeles, this leader in the Entertainment & Media space is focused on delivering world-class stories and experiences to it's global audience. To offer the best entertainment experiences, their technology teams focus on continued innovation and utilization of cutting edge technology.
Platform / Stack
You will work with technologies that include .NET, SQL, AWS, and JavaScript.
Compensation Expectation: $70 – 90/hr
What You'll Do As a Product Owner:
- Develop an understanding of the key stakeholder requirements and the technical work required to deliver solutions.
- Craft well-constructed technical user stories based on business goals, developer feedback, and personal expertise.
- Analysis and document the core capabilities and features of the product.
- Collaborate with other product team members to coordinate cross-product work.
- Work with developers to refine technical user stories for upcoming sprints.
- Participate in the QA of new features and provide product acceptance of new features to ensure that new features meet quality standards and user expectations.
- Develop and nurture relationships with external platform partners and stakeholders.
- Serve as a subject matter expert on functional aspects of the platform, providing guidance, support and timely product updates to cross-functional teams as needed.
- Gather and analyze data points to determine how products are performing and where they can be improved.
- Keep on top of industry trends, technologies, and techniques.
Qualifications:
You could be a great fit if you have:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a related field, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of industry experience
- Prior experience in an agile development environment, with a solid understanding of SCRUM principles and methodologies
- Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities
- Proficient in translating complex concepts and requests between technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable working independently or collaboratively within cross-functional teams
- Capable of analyzing existing datasets to uncover actionable insights
- Preferred Experience:
- Previous experience as the analyst or associate technical product manager for a technical product team
- Familiarity with digital video players and streaming technologies (e.g. HLS, DRM, forensic watermarking, etc.…)
- A working understanding of the video distribution content supply chain
- Comfortable with common AWS products and architecture
- Ability to comprehend and interpret technical standards and specifications.
This client requires that a background check be completed. A background check is required to protect our company/client and its stakeholders by ensuring that we hire individuals with a trustworthy history, which helps maintain a safe and secure workplace. This proactive measure minimizes potential risks and promotes a culture of integrity within the organization.
Benefits Offered:
Employer provides access to:
- 3 levels of medical insurance for you and your family
- Dental insurance for you and your family
- 401k
- Overtime
- California has the following sick leave policy: accrue 1 hour for every 30 hours worked up to 48 hours. If you are based in a different state, please inquire about that state’s sick leave policy.