Director Product Management

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About Brightcove

Brightcove is a team of smart, passionate people who are revolutionizing the way organizations deliver video. We’re hyped up about storytelling, and about helping people connect, share experiences, and view the world. Bottom line:

video is the world’s most compelling, exciting medium, and Brightcove exists to demonstrate that video means business.

As the industry leader in this space, we empower our customers to deliver top-notch video experiences to audiences on every screen in bold and innovative ways. When video is done right, it can have a powerful and lasting effect. Hearts open. Minds change. Creativity thrives. Since 2004, Brightcove has been supporting customers that are some of the largest media companies, enterprises, events, and non-profit organizations in the world. There are over 600 Brightcovers globally, each of us representing our unique talents and passions and we have built a culture that values individual empowerment, excellence and collaboration. This culture enables us to develop technologies once thought impossible, provide customer support without parallel or excuses, and leverage the expertise and resources of a global infrastructure. We take our video seriously, and we take great pride in doing it as one team.

Position Overview

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Manager or Director of Product Management with expertise in the video (preferred) or martech ecosystem to help drive the development of video applications for enterprises (with a focus on digital marketers). The Brightcove platform is used by digital marketers to publish engaging video experiences that delight their viewers and drive value for their businesses. Based on your understanding of the online video platform or the martech ecosystem, you will lead a team to define the roadmap for applications for digital marketing customers. These applications must be easy to use, deliver a best-in-class viewer experience, and create clear customer value.

Job Responsibilities

Drive the team and the vision and business case for key video marketing applications

Conduct quantitative and qualitative research to identify requirements, analyze market opportunities and set product vision

Manage UX design and beta programs to gather customer feedback and ensure successful releases

Prepare the cross-functional organization to market, sell, deliver, and support these application products

Manage product requirements, technical dependencies, engineering backlog, and product roadmap to execute on the product vision

Work closely with strategic partners to facilitate integrations and joint solutions that will enhance the value of the applications in the market

Qualifications/Experience

10 years in the online video platform or digital marketing ecosystem and how users might want to use video for marketing campaigns

Experience leading a team of 5 employees - coaching and mentoring them to define a customer value proposition and driving a business case for a product investment

Ability to apply UX design thinking to develop differentiated product designs and validate these designs with customer visits

Experience combining strategic thinking with detail-oriented execution in a way that gets things done in a fast-paced, globally distributed organization

Experience inspiring confidence with communication style and product demos

Experience demonstrating the ability to take a position and use facts to defend it, while having the flexibility to accept feedback and change course when better ideas present themselves

Working at Brightcove

As the undisputed global leader in powering premium video for our customers, Brightcove recruits and retains highly qualified and motivated individuals, creating an environment where people can innovate and achieve their best, and we reward them for their performance by giving them the opportunity to share in the company’s success. We offer competitive compensation, stock options, 401k matching, and tuition reimbursement, as well as generous PTO - and we expect you to use it!

We offer flexible options to work in our Boston office located in Fort Point harbor, remotely or in a hybrid set up (only exceptions are the roles that MUST work a certain way which we are finalizing soon). Whichever option you choose, we have plenty of opportunities to meet your colleagues around the globe and we also celebrate a variety of personal interests with organized groups and clubs including an Employee Action Committee, Women of Brightcove, Pride of Brightcove, Parents of Brightcove … and more to come!

If you've gotten all the way to the bottom of this description, thank you for your interest in Brightcove! If this role sounds like something that is exciting to you please don't hesitate to apply, even if you don't meet all of our qualifications. We recognize that no candidate is perfect and Brightcove would love to have the chance to get to know you.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Please note that while this job description is an accurate description of the role, it is also subject to change during the course of this search.

Send us your resume if you are interested and want to learn more!

Company info

Brightcove Inc.
Website : http://www.brightcove.com