Sr Product Manager

Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future.

At Dolby, science meets art, and high tech means more than computer code.

As a member of the Dolby team, you’ll see and hear the results of your work everywhere, from movie theaters to smartphones.

We continue to revolutionize how people create, deliver, and enjoy entertainment worldwide.

To do that, we need the absolute best talent.

We’re big enough to give you all the resources you need, and small enough so you can make a real difference and earn recognition for your work.

We offer a collegial culture, challenging projects, and excellent compensation and benefits.

We are looking for a visionary, creative and passionate product leader to manage the portfolio of professional software products.

You’ll be working at the intersection of art and science to manage products enabling the processing and delivery of Dolby’s next generation audio and imaging experiences, including Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos and Dolby Audio.

If you’re excited about enabling media organizations such as Disney+, Netflix or HBOMax to deliver compelling end user experiences, this is for you.

Working with key ecosystem players such as OTT streaming platforms, PayTV operators, Broadcasters and media processing infrastructure suppliers, we expect you to drive the product strategy that provide the best value for these partners, and deliver products that are simple to deploy, scalable, and designed to mesh into existing or future content distribution workflows.

We expect you to be customer-centric with a strong business acumen and technical depth with hands-on experiences in managing a product portfolio designed for media processing workflows.

Essential Job Functions

• Manage the professional software products portfolio across Professional Audio and Professional Imaging technologies designed to encode, package, QC/Monitor and deliver Dolby Atmos, Dolby Audio and Dolby Vision experiences.
• Manage the product roadmaps and specification of requirements while driving execution across the organization and making strategic tradeoffs.
• Provide vision and market direction inputs to engineering and technology teams to develop new technologies and products for the media processing and delivery ecosystem.
• Lead the delivery of high-performance innovative products that can be easily integrated in software, appliance and cloud-based media processing stacks.
• Collaborate across the company (development, QA, technologies group, tech comms, sales, sales
  – ops, marketing, finance, legal, and program management) to ensure the success of your product.
• Own and manage the product lifecycle including planning, definition, development, management and delivery.
• Ensure that product portfolio meet the company’s overall vision, strategy, and goals.
• Develop and communicate clear product vision and strategy, product positioning, messaging, and value proposition internally and externally.
• Serve as primary product evangelist.

  Evangelize the product to customers and partners focusing on the core technical aspects of the product and technologies (DD+, AC-4, Vision)

• Provide detailed product information, product training, customer workflows and use cases to support Marketing, Sales and Support.
• Keep up to date with market trends, emerging technologies, research the competition and provide competitive product analysis.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience, And Education Requirement

• 5+ years of Product Management or Solution Engineering experience.
• Proven track record of managing media processing products (encoding, decoding, packaging) is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of professional video and audio distribution codecs and standards.
• Solid knowledge of the Media Processing ecosystem.

  Understanding of Broadcast, PayTV, OTT delivery workflows, and have some domain expertise in video/audio encoding, packaging and

• QC/Monitoring products and solutions.
• Experience with open-source applications, media frameworks, cloud environments and workflows.

o Media Frameworks
– FFMpeg, Gstreamer
o Cloud Deployments – AWS, Google, Azure
o Cloud Concepts – EC2, Object Storage, Security, Resource Management o Open source tools – Bento4, Shaka, mediainfo, etc.

• Strong leadership, oral and written communication, and interpersonal skills.

  You will have a strong public presence with the talent to synthetize complex topics and present them effectively.

• Self-driven, with the ability to work independently and lead collaboratively diverse teams, both functionally and geographically.
• Strong ability to influence, to lead either by advocacy or enquiry to drive internal alignment and focus.
• Experience in Agile product development (e.

  g.

  SCRUM).

• Ability to travel domestically and overseas.
• Passion for the Media Entertainment space.
• Bachelors degree in computer science, engineering, marketing, or equivalent relevant field.
• Masters or advanced degree desirable.