TL;DR

Senior Product Manager Live Encoding (Video Streaming): Owning and developing the product vision and strategy for the Live Encoding product, ensuring alignment with company goals, market trends, and customer feedback. Focus on gathering, analyzing, and prioritizing product requirements, translating them into actionable roadmaps.

Location: London, Vienna, Berlin, Remote Europe.

Company

Bitmovin is a global Series-C SaaS scale-up that provides award-winning video streaming technology to world-renowned brands.

What you will do

  • Own and develop the product vision and strategy for the Live Encoding product.
  • Directly interact with customers and sales opportunities to deeply understand their needs, pain points, and use cases.
  • Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to gather, analyze, and prioritize product requirements, translating them into actionable roadmaps.
  • Oversee the entire product lifecycle, from requirement specification and design to technical implementation, launch, and go-to-market activities.
  • Continuously assess and enhance the product to improve user experience, adoption, and overall value.
  • Work effectively with Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and other teams to ensure successful product development and launch.

Requirements

  • Extensive product management experience, ideally in the streaming media industry, with a focus on SaaS products and customer-facing responsibilities.
  • Solid technical understanding of product architecture, enabling effective collaboration with engineering teams, and the ability to guide customers through technical integrations.
  • Proven ability to work effectively with engineering teams.
  • Excellent communication skills to articulate ideas and collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
  • Ability to think strategically and translate market insights into actionable product strategies.
  • Familiarity with Agile methodologies.

Nice to have

  • Experience in the online video streaming industry.
  • Understanding of H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC and AV1 codecs, and ability to speak to the trade-offs between bitrate, quality, and latency.
  • Mastery of OTT distribution formats such as MPEG DASH and HLS.
  • Familiarity with contribution protocols like RTP, SRT, RTMP and Zixi.
  • Proficiency in SCTE-35 and other industry standards used to enable server-side (SSAI) or server-guided (SGAI) dynamic ad insertion.

Culture & Benefits

  • Flexible working arrangements.
  • Diverse career opportunities and continuous growth.
  • An environment that fosters innovation and ownership.