Senior Technical Product Manager
Senior Technical Product Manager, Video Enablement
About GameChanger:
We believe in the life changing impact youth sports have on and off the field. Sports encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence – important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.
So if you love sports and their community building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.
The Position:
At GameChanger we score and stream millions of youth sports games annually. As the Product Manager on the Video team, you will work with a talented team of engineers to develop our video pipeline end to end to ensure we have a scalable and resilient platform to handle millions of annual streams. You will need to have a firm grasp of video streaming, as well as recording and encoding concepts to help lead iterations of our current live and post-game video capabilities for our internal product teams.
Video continues to be central to our ambitious strategy to revolutionize how youth sports teams capture, analyze, and improve their game. You will work closely with your product management peers to drive user experiences that bring the magic of GameChanger to every team.
Check out some of our current video capabilities at https://gc.com/live-video
What You’ll Do:
- Lead the team through the designing, building, and supporting of our video capabilities, including third party device support (such as GoPro and Mevo), mobile first-party live broadcasting/capture, ingest, transcode, storage, and playback.
- Partner with engineering & our infrastructure teams to manage a resilient, scalable, and efficient video pipeline in AWS.
- Collaborate closely with other feature teams to contribute to GC’s overall vision for video streaming technology, influence product decisions, and build video capabilities.
- Analyze external and internal user and business need through user interviews, data analysis, and market research and continually measure and improve the live and VOD streaming experiences based on findings.
- Ensure that your team is prioritizing the most important and impactful work.
- Launch fast and iterate often with a talented team of engineers.
- Build consensus among your peers across engineering, design, marketing, and business development.
- Document, manage, and monitor product KPIs and metrics to ensure they’re aligned and performing across teams.
What You’ll Bring:
- Strong background in video and audio streaming, with a focus on user-generated content live streaming technologies.
- Ability to work alongside Engineering to evaluate and augment our current video ingestion pipeline.
- Solid experience with video ingestion, live streaming, encoding & decoding, and other software engineering principals and architectures required for a resilient, scalable, and secure video cloud infrastructure (we use AWS).
- Ability to think strategically and contribute to the long-term vision of the product team.
- Demonstrated success in leading teams with a focus on collaboration and achieving high-quality product goals.
Who You Are:
- 5+ years of experience in product management or product engineering, working with video or live streaming in mobile-first applications.
- Demonstrated experience planning and executing large scale projects and achieving positive user outcomes across multiple engineering teams and domains.
- Exceptional communicator who embodies storytelling skills, including written, verbal, and numeric communication. You should be able to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Working knowledge of software development cycles including infrastructure, continuous integration, developer tooling, open source use, and documentation.
- Experience with data-informed decision-making as well as comfort working with ambiguity and using intuition alongside data to drive the platform forward.
Perks:
- Work remotely throughout the US* or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.
- Unlimited vacation policy.
- Paid volunteer opportunities.
- WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.
- Snack stipend - $60 monthly to have snacks shipped to your home office.
- Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HRA., and coverage for family/dependents.
- Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.
- Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.
- Retirement savings - 401K plan offered through Vanguard, with a company match.
- Company paid access to a wellness platform to support mental, financial and physical wellbeing.
- Generous parental leave.
- DICK’S Sporting Goods Teammate Discount.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
The target salary range for this position is between $160,000 and $180,000. This is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes incentive, equity, and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all teammates pay regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay.
*DICK'S Sporting Goods has company-wide practices to monitor and protect us from compliance and monetary implications as it pertains to employer state tax liabilities. Due to said guidelines put in place, we are unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC.