Role Summary
Versant Media is seeking dynamic Product Owners to join our Content and Operations team, supporting the delivery of best-in-class tools and platforms that power the accurate, timely, and compliant scheduling and distribution of our programming.
You’ll serve as a core member of a cross-functional squad, driving solutions that unify planning, traffic, playout, and metadata workflows. Whether supporting real-time scheduling adjustments, format and rights compliance, or playout readiness, your work will directly impact the operational reliability and flexibility of Versant’s content supply chain.
This role is ideal for product thinkers with hands-on experience in media workflows, a systems mindset, and the drive to reduce operational friction through technology.
Key Responsibilities
- Backlog Ownership: Define, refine, and prioritize product backlog items in alignment with strategic goals and operational needs.
- Workflow Enablement: Partner with stakeholders across scheduling, traffic, playout, and metadata delivery to gather requirements and translate them into actionable user stories.
- Delivery Execution: Collaborate daily with engineers, designers, and QA to drive sprint planning, review, and execution.
- Operational Support: Ensure platform enhancements support real-world operations—including playout triggers, format compliance, and schedule updates.
- System Modernization: Contribute to the transformation from legacy tools to scalable, cloud-native solutions; help decompose monoliths into modular services.
- Automation & Intelligence: Help embed intelligent automation into tooling—such as predictive alerts, schedule validations, and metadata rules engines.
- Documentation & Training: Maintain clear product documentation and support rollout of new features to operational users.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Interface with Product Managers, Analysts, and other Product Owners to coordinate dependencies and support seamless end-to-end workflow integration.
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years in product ownership, product management, or technical project management—ideally in a media or broadcast operations environment.
- Familiarity with TV scheduling, playout operations, or traffic systems.
- Strong backlog management skills, including user story writing, prioritization, and refinement.
- Comfort with agile development tools like Jira, Confluence, and delivery planning frameworks.
- Ability to translate complex operational needs into clear technical requirements.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder facilitation skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with broadcast metadata standards, compliance rules, or downstream delivery.
- Experience leveraging AI-powered tools (e.g., LLMs, copilots) to enhance product workflows—such as drafting user stories, enriching metadata, generating test cases, or identifying product insights.
- Technical fluency sufficient to discuss implementation tradeoffs with engineering teams.
- Product certifications (CSPO, SAFe POPM, etc.) are a plus.
Work Style & Culture
You’ll thrive in this role if you:
- Are energized by operational systems and real-world constraints.
- Excel at collaborative delivery with engineers and business partners.
- Are relentlessly curious and eager to simplify complexity.
- Care deeply about the reliability of what you ship and how it supports critical workflows.
