Product Manager - Digital Mobile & Streaming

Job description

Hearst Television is looking for a Product Manager to help define the next generation of local news. You will own the day-to-day execution and optimization of our mobile and OTT app suite, ensuring that when news breaks, our users receive a high-performance, reliable, and immersive streaming experience. Reporting to the Sr. Technical Product Lead, you will serve as a key bridge between technical feasibility and user experience. You thrive on the challenge of platform fragmentation—shipping a unified experience across everything from Android to Apple TV—and use behavioral analytics to drive engagement and retention for a truly binge-worthy product. Responsibilities: - Lifecycle & Agile Execution : Own the end-to-end delivery of features. Act as the primary Product Owner for engineering and design teams, leading grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives to ensure high-velocity, high-quality releases. - Backlog & Requirement Engineering : Translate complex stakeholder needs and newsroom requirements into actionable user stories with clear technical acceptance criteria. - Operational Excellence: Monitor critical streaming KPIs (crash rates, rebuffering, video starts) and QoE metric...