Vice President III, Video Product

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Company: Nexstar Broadcasting
Location: Irving, TX 75039

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It’s fun to work in a company where people truly believe in what they are doing!

Nexstar Digital Publisher Solutions Group has an immediate need for a video product leader to help shape and grow their digital video offerings.

About Nexstar and Nexstar Digital

Nexstar Digital, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXST), offers media companies and advertisers a comprehensive suite of leading digital solutions and services focused on optimizing audience targeting, user engagement and the overall performance of video, social, search, display, mobile, and multimedia content and marketing campaigns. Nexstar Digital’s enterprise-class publishing platforms, video monetization technology, and professional digital agency services deliver powerful digital advertising and content monetization solutions to clients across both national and local markets in the United States. Nexstar Digital product lines include Nexstar Digital Data Solutions Group, Nexstar Digital Platform Group, Nexstar Digital Publisher Solutions Group, and Nexstar Digital Agency Services.

Position Description

The Vice President of Product, Video (VPV) will be a key member of the product management team, responsible for overseeing the video product vertical. This position requires a passion for video product development and an appetite to stay up-to-speed and lead our team’s knowledge and understanding of the digital video landscape (players, monetization, formats, etc.).

Reporting to the Head of Product, the VPV will work closely with product team leaders to define, set and implement strategic and operational product priorities for Nexstar Digital’s Publisher Solutions Group.

As a member of the Product Team, the VPV will work closely with publishing partners including Nexstar Media’s growing portfolio of local television stations and other non-Nexstar customers using our platforms and services.

Experience Required

  • 10 + years’ experience with digital video product management, development, operations and monetization (players, monetization, formats, etc.) is a must, preferably for a media company.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders and collaborate and manage projects within a large geographically diverse company.
  • Ideal candidates will have solid media/publishing business acumen, be motivated and passionate and operate effectively in independent and team collaboration settings alike.

Specific Responsibilities

  • Define critical strategies and define product roadmap to evolve and grow Nexstar Digital’s (NDs) video publishing competency.
  • Own the day to day operations of ND’s video operations and support the parent company and its station groups adoption, use and successful operations of digital video platforms.
  • Understand digital video performance and analytics (traffic, engagement, monetization) and, working with your analytics partners, provide insights to stakeholders on performance optimizations.
  • Gather, intake, assess feature requests and prioritize bug reports from all areas of the business including local stations.
  • Contribute to and communicate the Product group’s video priorities and roadmap to stakeholders
  • Author clear, actionable product requirements in an Agile software development environment is a must.
  • Comfort and using a variety of reporting and project management tool to communicate and document across the video product portfolio including ZenDesk, Jira, Confluence, and others.
  • Manage end-to-end product roll-outs including:
    • Conducting user acceptance testing including A/B or multivariate
    • Create detailed product artifacts such as release notes and training documentation
    • Coordinating and conducting end-user training
    • Intake, triage, and follow-through on stakeholder bug/feature reports via systems like ZenDesk

Qualifications

Has 10+ years of experience as a product manager with proven digital video experience (players, monetization, formats, etc.) including:

  • Knowledge of, and experience with, various OVPs and OVP technologies (Anvato, Brightcove/Ooyala, JW Player, Video.js, etc.)
  • Knowledge of video ad serving techniques and strategy (preroll, midroll, etc.)
  • Video analytics – streams, VTR, video completions, etc. using analytics suites like GA/GA360 and Comscore in video
  • Proven experience with Live streaming, Social and viral video, Facebook Live
  • Strong analytical skills and data-driven decision making
  • Proven experience working directly with design and engineering teams to build and ship video and web products
  • Stellar communication and project management skills with the ability to weave strategy, insights, priorities, and plan into a structured and organized storyline at all levels of management and stakeholders
  • Bachelor’s degree required.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you’ll enjoy your career with us!