Product Owner Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 5+ years of digital product management experience
• Solid understanding of a Scrum Product Owner role and experience working with engineering and QA teams using agile methodologies
• Experience with qualitative and quantitative user research methods
• Experience developing requirement documents, user stories, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and user interaction diagrams
• Familiar with video encoding, transcoding pipelines, and streaming delivery protocols (e.g., HLS, DASH) with a strong grasp of how encoding decisions impact playback quality, latency, and cost
• Hands-on familiarity with APIs, services architecture, and platform/infrastructure concepts; comfortable engaging directly with engineering on technical tradeoffs and system design decisions
• Reasonable technical understanding and an ability to translate technical requirements and specifications into easily understood business concepts and vice versa

Nice To Haves

• Product or design experience with using video and streaming as a platform to engage with fans and consumers is a plus
• Experience managing products at scale and on connected devices (Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV, etc.) is a plus

Responsibilities

• Build product vision and roadmaps by synthesizing MLB strategy and business objectives into actionable steps and realistic deliverables for your scrum team
• Partner with engineering, user experience, and research teams to constantly experiment and design product solutions that incorporate user feedback through multiple iterations
• Document and prioritize a product backlog with epics and user stories accompanied by detailed acceptance criteria
• Lead an Agile scrum team, forecast timelines, plan releases and coordinate cross-team deliverables
• Interview, analyze, observe and learn about your audience to create insights that will shape requirements, features and the product roadmap
• Become a subject matter expert on the product, platform, and industry trends in streaming, connected TV and OTT marketplaces. Gain a deep understanding of customer motivations, problems, journeys, and usage patterns
• Use analytics and data to measure product performance, return on investment and drive product prioritization and design decisions
• Informed on the evolving AI/ML tooling landscape; able to identify opportunities to integrate AI-powered capabilities into the product, the product planning process and development tools to accelerate velocity
• Think like an owner to drive ideas forward from inception through execution, getting deeply embedded in the details and bridging the gaps where necessary to achieve target outcomes
• Create alignment between engineering, business stakeholders and leadership. Be the first point of contact for questions and clarifications
• Create transparency and accountability with mechanisms to compile status, identify risks and escalate critical product decisions and information

Benefits

• Competitive Benefits Package
• Company Contributed 401K Plan
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Access to Free Tickets to Baseball Games & MLB.TV
• Discounts at MLB Store | MLBShop.com
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Onsite/Online Training & Development Programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Pet Insurance