Senior Product Manager LIVE Encoding

Location: London, Vienna, Berlin, Remote Europe. Core skills: Product Management, Strategic Planning, Technical Expertise, Data Analysis, Agile Bitmovin is a global Series-C SaaS scale-up that provides award-winning video streaming technology to world-renowned brands including Disney+, Discovery+, BBC, Red Bull Media House, Hulu, fuboTV, and The New York Times, to name just a few. Our solution suite consists of a Video Encoder, Player, and Analytics platform, enabling content owners to redefine the viewer experience through API-based workflow optimization, fast turnaround, and scalability. Innovations include the first commercial HTML5 MPEG-DASH. "We are constantly seeking out forward thinking individuals who want to shape the future of video… come and work with us!" Stefan Lederer, CEO At Bitmovin we value cognitive diversity and the huge part this plays in not only creating a global culture second to none, but in how this underpins our ability to create truly representative, Emmy award winning products. Diversity in all its forms is encouraged and celebrated at Bitmovin; everyone has a role to play in helping us shape the future of video. Why us?Bitmovin is seeking a customer-centric Senior Product Manager to lead our Live Encoding product team. We're building the Bitmovin Video Encoding service—a cutting-edge solution powering seamless video streaming experiences for millions of users worldwide. In this role, you'll collaborate with cross-functional teams and industry-leading customers to shape the future of live online video streaming. This is an opportunity that offers:

• Ownership of products trusted by leading enterprises like Discovery+, DAZN, BBC, RTL, RedBull Media House, Globo, ClassPass, and The New York Times, reaching millions of viewers globally.
• Direct engagement with customers to deeply understand their needs, pain points, and use cases, ensuring our product delivers maximum value.
• Collaboration with highly skilled engineering, sales, and marketing teams to bring innovative features and solutions to market.
• Involvement in all stages of product development, from ideation and requirement gathering to go-to-market strategies and beyond.
• A chance to contribute to one of the fastest-growing industries—Online Video Streaming.
• Diverse career opportunities, continuous growth, and an environment that fosters innovation and ownership.

Your Impact You will make an impact that matters by:

• Vision and Strategy: Own and develop the product vision and strategy for the Live Encoding product, ensuring alignment with company goals, market trends, and customer feedback.
• Customer Engagement: Directly interact with customers and sales opportunities to deeply understand their needs, pain points, and use cases. Own the technical validation and integration process to ensure successful adoption of our product.
• Requirements Gathering and Prioritization: Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to gather, analyze, and prioritize product requirements, translating them into actionable roadmaps.
• Product Development and Launch: Oversee the entire product lifecycle, from requirement specification and design to technical implementation, launch, and go-to-market activities.
• Market Analysis: Stay informed about market trends and the competitive landscape, conducting analyses and user research to identify opportunities and challenges.
• Product Optimization: Continuously assess and enhance the product to improve user experience, adoption, and overall value.
• KPI Management: Define and own key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure product success and drive progress toward company objectives.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work effectively with Engineering, Sales, Marketing, and other teams to ensure successful product development and launch.

What can you bring

• Extensive product management experience in product management, 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.
• Experience working with OKRs and KPIs to drive product success.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies.

Desirable:

• 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.
• Experience building or managing cloud-based video services.

You don't have experience with all the points above? Don't worry, we will support you with learning, training, and coaching on the job. Life at Bitmovin Find out more about us on our Careers Page See what fellow Bitmovers are saying on LinkedIn Check the employee reviews on Glassdoor For all of our roles, we are willing to offer flexible working arrangements to support everyone's unique circumstances.