Product Manager, Streaming Platform: Player & Advertising Technology

Red Bull•Santa Monica, CA

18h

About The Position

Red Bull Digital Products & Services is seeking a Product Manager to own the video player and player SDKs for the Red Bull Streaming Platform, which powers Red Bull TV, ServusTV On and Rally.TV across mobile, web, connected TV and game consoles. The Product Manager will lead a cross-platform Player Squad and own the player vision, strategy, roadmap and quality bar across all supported platforms. The role is responsible for the end-to-end playback experience for live, linear and on-demand video, including HLS and DASH streaming, DRM, adaptive bitrate, audio and subtitle tracks, player controls and interactive features. It also owns advertising within the player, including ad insertion approaches, rendering, tracking and measurement, and works with encoding, Google Ad Manager and Ad Operations teams to align stream signaling, ad decisioning and reporting. The Product Manager will consolidate requests from the platform’s three tenants and client product teams into a prioritized backlog, coordinate delivery with engineering and design, define quality and test strategies, establish success metrics, and use playback and ad performance data to guide the roadmap. The role also manages player and advertising vendor relationships, supports SDK integrations, leads incident triage during live events, and ensures platform certification, accessibility, privacy and app-store requirements are met. This position requires close collaboration with technical and business stakeholders across Santa Monica, Salzburg and tenant teams, including communication across two time zones. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen, permanent resident or holder of a valid work-authorizing visa. The base salary range is $116,000–$174,000 plus cash incentives; actual offers may vary with experience.

Requirements

Fluent in English.
At least 3 years of Product Management experience owning a video player, streaming playback or video advertising product.
Deep working knowledge of HLS and DASH streaming protocols, including manifests, adaptive bitrate, low latency and DRM such as FairPlay, Widevine and PlayReady.
Hands-on experience with video advertising, including client-side, server-side and server-guided ad insertion; SCTE-35 markers and HLS date range tags; VAST and VMAP; and Google Ad Manager for video.
Experience with AWS Elemental Media Services (MediaLive, MediaPackage and MediaTailor) or equivalent live streaming infrastructure.
Experience leading an engineering squad and setting quality standards for releases, including test strategy and release readiness.
Experience with quality-of-experience and ad performance tools such as Datadog, Datazoom, Conviva or ad server reporting, and a record of using data to make product decisions.
Experience managing player and advertising vendors, including SDK licensing and build-versus-buy decisions.
Comfort working directly with engineers on technical topics, including reading manifests, logs and ad responses and reproducing playback issues on devices.
Experience leading agile development processes, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
Ability to influence and lead high-performing, cross-functional teams.
Strong project management, teamwork, problem-solving and strategic-thinking skills.
Outstanding written and oral communication skills; the role involves daily interaction with engineering, Legal, product management and program management.
Strong stakeholder follow-up and project management skills, including managing deadlines and communicating changes to scope or delivery dates.

Nice To Haves

German language skills.
Familiarity with interactive player features such as multi-view, live timeline events, in-player overlays, and shoppable or data-driven formats.
Experience with connected TV, game console and web player frameworks such as AVPlayer, ExoPlayer and Media3, Roku, Shaka Player or Bitmovin.
Experience with live sports or event streaming at scale, including FAST and linear channels.

Responsibilities

Lead the Player Squad by setting priorities, running planning and refinement, and serving as the product owner for player engineers across Apple, Android, Roku, smart TV and web teams.
Own the vision, strategy and roadmap for the video player and player SDKs across all platforms supported by the Red Bull Streaming Platform.
Own the end-to-end playback experience for live, linear and on-demand video, including HLS and DASH, DRM, adaptive bitrate, multi-audio and subtitle tracks, controls and interactive features.
Define and prioritize the player advertising roadmap, including client-side, server-side and server-guided ad insertion, and how ads render, track and are measured.
Collaborate with the encoding team on ad signaling and insertion across streams and on the AWS Elemental Media Services stack.
Work with Google Ad Manager and Ad Operations on ad decisioning, configuration and reporting.
Triage feature requests from Red Bull TV, ServusTV On, Rally.TV and client product teams; consolidate requests into a prioritized backlog and communicate decisions and trade-offs.
Define the player test strategy with QA, including device coverage, advertising scenario matrices and readiness for live events, and hold releases to the established quality bar.
Define success metrics before launch and review playback quality, advertising performance and interactive feature adoption after launch; use findings to inform roadmap priorities.
Own the product side of shared video player SDKs, including integration guidelines, versioning, release cadence and support for integrating teams.
Manage player and advertising vendor relationships, including SDK licensing, ad server and measurement partners, build-versus-buy decisions and standard vendor contracts with Legal and Procurement.
Lead player incident triage during live events and playback or advertising escalations, and maintain player documentation, runbooks and ad integration guidelines.
Ensure player certification, accessibility requirements, privacy requirements and platform store requirements are met across device families.
Champion collaboration among design, the Player Squad and client engineering teams, remove obstacles and align teams on efficient, high-quality delivery.
Build relationships with technical and business stakeholders across encoding, Ad Operations, tenant and client product teams, and align them on the roadmap and release plan.
Develop expertise in streaming delivery, player technology and video advertising, and research emerging capabilities and competitor offerings.
Communicate project status, deadlines, delivery-date or scope changes, milestones, progress and results to stakeholders and management.
Facilitate discussions among engineers, encoding, Ad Operations, ad sales and non-technical stakeholders; sketch playback and advertising experiences and user journeys.
Prepare presentations and player demos, and write and review product requirements documents and technical specifications.