Senior Product Manager (ITVX Content Experience)

The Role

12 Month Fixed-Term Contract

Senior Product Manager, ITVX Content Experience

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our Core Experience Product Group.

This role will primarily focus on leading the product management of the ITVX content discovery experience and supporting strategic projects to grow ITVX. The successful candidate will lead product development activities across several ITV functions and with our development teams.

Reporting to the Head of Product, you will need significant experience in developing consumer-facing digital products on Smart/Connected TV, web, and mobile platforms, and a strong track record of managing data-driven, value-based product development.

The team

We connect with millions of people every day, make content they can't get enough of and reflect and shape the world we live in… and we do all this through the power of creativity.

We are a digitally led entertainment and media company that creates and brings brilliant content to audiences, wherever, whenever and however they choose.

Simply put, as a Media and Entertainment brand at heart, we are people-focused and place a huge emphasis on innovation. Our culture is everything to us and our product teams power the platforms for our stars on screen to shape the future.

Here at ITV we are undergoing a major digital transformation drive, across all of our platforms and on-demand services. With the rapid shift in industry trends, from VOD streaming to programmatic AI and ever-changing consumer tastes, accelerating the demand for high-quality, high-volume content delivery at scale, we are looking to leverage our long-standing reputation as the largest commercial TV network in the UK in order to create a technology-first media platform that caters to an increasingly diverse worldwide audience.

Responsibilities:

• Translate customers’ core experience needs and business requirements into a Product Strategy for your cross-functional area
• Prioritise the development backlog by assessing the business value of product initiatives.
• Lead the discovery and development of device-centric capabilities and features that enhance the viewer’s experience in the ITVX app
• Lead a cross-functional team towards a roadmap that is data-driven and prioritised based on value and feasibility
• Take the initiative to really understand the viewer experience on devices and propose optimisations that are driven through data and testing
• Take ownership of complex cross-functional problems and seeing them through to a resolution
• Manage and keep stakeholders informed at all levels across Product, Technology, Delivery, Marketing, Commercial and Legal to build a vision and roadmap
• Provide guidance and mentoring to core-level Product Managers within the team.

Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria)

• Significant experience (3 years+) of leading product development, ideally on video streaming platforms (Web, Connected/Smart TV and Mobile)
• Detailed knowledge of streaming TV platform functionalities and capabilities.
• Strong data-centric product development skills including confidence in setting objectives, measuring performance and storytelling through data
• Strong analytical skills and ability to self-serve data insights via platforms such as Google Analytics and Amplitude.
• Excellent ability to lead collaboration across technical development, design and product teams to build incremental product value.
• Experience working across suppliers and teams and ensuring consistency of approach and unity of direction
• Strong champion of Agile product development methods.

Other things we’re looking for (key criteria)

• Excellent stakeholder management skills with demonstrable experience of negotiating successful outcomes.
• A strong track record in leading cross-functional teams to successful data-driven results.
• First-class written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to navigate relationships at various levels across ITV, including strong influencing skills so as to act as a change agent
• Able to work independently and to tight and evolving deadlines
• Flexible and creative approach to problem solving