Senior Principal Product Manager – Broadcast Workflows

As a Senior Principal Product Manager within OCI’s Media Services business, you will drive the transformation of traditional broadcast workflows into cloud-native solutions on OCI. This role requires deep expertise in live broadcast contribution, production, and B2B distribution technologies, combined with a strong understanding of cloud infrastructure. You will work closely with OCI engineering teams to identify and address infrastructure gaps, ensuring that OCI can support the unique demands of real-time broadcast workflows.

You will define the product roadmap for OCI’s broadcast capabilities, working directly with broadcasters, media companies, and technology partners to understand their requirements. Your work will play a pivotal role in enabling the migration of live and linear broadcast workflows—from on-premises hardware-based solutions to scalable, cloud-native architectures. If you are passionate about the intersection of traditional broadcast and cloud technology, this role offers the opportunity to shape the future of live broadcast in the cloud.

Career Level - IC5

Responsibilities:

• Define Product Strategy: Develop a product vision and roadmap for live broadcast contribution, production, and distribution/playout workflows in the cloud.
• Bridge Broadcast & Cloud: Identify critical gaps in OCI’s cloud infrastructure for broadcast applications and collaborate with OCI engineering teams to address them.
• Customer & Industry Engagement: Work closely with broadcasters, media companies, and service providers to understand their technical and business needs, ensuring OCI solutions meet industry demands.
• Technical Leadership: Provide thought leadership on cloud-based broadcast workflows, including contribution, live production, signal processing, and cloud-based playout.
• Competitive Analysis: Conduct in-depth market research to analyze trends, competitor offerings, and emerging technologies in live and linear broadcast.
• Product Development Lifecycle: Own the end-to-end product lifecycle, from requirements gathering and functional specifications to working with engineering on execution.
• Collaboration Across OCI: Partner with internal teams, including networking, compute, storage, and media services, to deliver integrated solutions tailored for broadcast workloads.
• Go-to-Market Enablement: Work with sales, partner, and industry demand teams to drive awareness and adoption of OCI’s broadcast solutions.
• Performance Optimization: Define key success metrics and continuously analyze product performance to drive improvements.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in product management, solutions architecture, or engineering roles in the broadcast industry.
• Deep domain expertise in live broadcast workflows, including signal contribution, live production, and cloud playout.
• Strong technical understanding of IP-based broadcast technologies (SMPTE 2110, NDI, SRT, RIST, Zixi, etc.) and cloud-based media services.
• Experience with real-time video processing, encoding/transcoding, and cloud networking architectures.
• Prior experience working with cloud service providers on media workflows or infrastructure solutions.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to engineering teams and business value to customers.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; an MBA is a plus.