Head of Media Products

Reporting to: Director of Product Direct Reports: 6

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for P&L for products in the media portfolio (more than £200 million in revenue), leading product performance and profitability

• Leads in-life product lifecycle management of products within the media portfolio (inc. product planning and deployment management) and provide product lifecycle support for team members

• Overall leading and ownership of new product development and roadmaps for media products, incl. product discovery with customers and prospects, competitor analysis, market analysis, trend watching

• Accountability of media product discovery and development budgets

• Partners with the sales organisation to win new and retain business including leading RFP responses and sales calls

• Investigates and develops new business and product opportunities with business development

• Delivers on product sales model, price and packaged to ensure that media products deliver the correct value for the market

• Defines the product vision within the media portfolio, influencing product direction within the company

• Selects and manages key partners supporting the media product portfolio

• Promotes the company, product strategy and products directly to internal and external stakeholders and audiences, defining the go to market plans across media products with the head of product marketing

• Leads product management best practice within the organisation, defining processes and procedures and driving continuous improvement

• Line manages the media product management team including senior product managers, product managers and graduate product managers

• Influences and evaluates product development methodologies used by architecture and engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Extensive experience of product and portfolio management in B2B technology environment

• Track record of managing teams

• Track record of managing key stakeholders

• Extensive knowledge of the commercial drivers for the media industry (segments, customers, competitors)

• High level understanding of technology underpinning the required media product portfolio (video encoding and multiplexing, video networking, OTT, VOD)

• Extensive knowledge of product management methodologies

• Good working knowledge of waterfall and agile product development methodologies