Versant Media · 17 hours ago
Product Manager - Content Supply Chain
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid Level
3+ years expVersant Media is a leading force in news, sports, and entertainment, seeking Product Owners to join their Content and Operations team. The role involves supporting the delivery of tools and platforms for content management, enhancing the efficiency and reliability of the content supply chain through cross-functional collaboration and modern technology solutions.
Media and EntertainmentInformation TechnologyBroadcasting
Responsibilities
Backlog Ownership: Define, refine, and prioritize product backlog items in alignment with shared business priorities, delivery commitments, and operational outcomes, ensuring focus on the work that delivers the greatest impact
Business Engagement & Alignment: Actively engage with business and operational stakeholders to clarify priorities, surface gaps or ambiguities, and ensure shared understanding of goals, constraints, and delivery expectations, strengthening alignment between business needs and technology execution
Workflow Enablement: Partner with ingest, QC, packaging, scheduling, traffic, playout, and partner management stakeholders to translate operational needs into actionable user stories that reduce friction, improve orchestration, and enable reliable end-to-end delivery
Delivery Execution: Collaborate daily with engineering, design, and QA to support sprint planning, reviews, and execution, driving predictable delivery and clear tradeoffs across scope, capacity, and timelines
Operational Support: Ensure product enhancements support real-world content operations, including SLA monitoring, compliance validation, scheduling accuracy, and delivery-status visibility, with a focus on reliability and operational resilience
System Modernization: Contribute to the transformation from legacy tools to scalable, cloud-native solutions, helping simplify the technology stack and improve long-term maintainability, scalability, and delivery speed
Automation & Intelligence: Help embed intelligent automation into tooling—such as predictive schedule and fulfillment readiness, intelligent QC, metadata validation, and anomaly detection—to improve productivity and reduce manual effort across operational workflows
Documentation & Training: Maintain clear product documentation and support the rollout of new capabilities to operational users, enabling adoption, consistency, and reuse across teams
Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with Product Managers, Analysts, and other Product Owners to coordinate dependencies, improve transparency, and support seamless execution across interconnected workflows
Qualification
Required
3+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, or technical project management, ideally supporting operationally critical systems in a media or broadcast environment
Familiarity with content workflows such as ingest, scheduling, playout, metadata packaging, or distribution tooling, with an understanding of real-world operational needs
Strong backlog management skills, including user story writing, refinement, and prioritization to balance run, grow, and improvement work
Proven ability to partner with business and operational stakeholders, translating complex or ambiguous needs into clear, actionable product direction
Experience working in agile delivery environments, collaborating closely with engineering, design, and QA teams to drive consistent execution
Comfort supporting production platforms, with awareness of reliability, incident response, and service-level expectations
Experience using agile tooling such as Jira and Confluence to support transparency, coordination, and follow-through
Strong communication and facilitation skills, with comfort operating within structured planning and delivery cadences
Preferred
Hands-on experience across multiple parts of the content supply chain, such as ingest, packaging, scheduling, playout, metadata management, or distribution, with the ability to connect workflows end to end
Experience leveraging AI-powered tools (e.g., LLMs, copilots, intelligent automation) to improve product workflows, such as accelerating story creation, enriching metadata, generating test cases, or identifying product insights
Technical fluency sufficient to engage in solution design discussions, understand tradeoffs, and collaborate effectively with engineering partners on scalable implementations
Experience contributing to platform modernization or simplification efforts, including transitions from legacy systems to more modular or cloud-native architectures
Product or agile certifications (e.g., CSPO, SAFe POPM) or equivalent hands-on experience operating in structured product delivery environments
Benefits
Health insurance
Retirement plans
Paid time off
Company
Versant Media
Versant Media is a media company that offers television and digital entertainment services.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2026-01-05IPO
Leadership Team
Steve Arocho
Vice President Corporate Communications
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