Senior Product Owner, Media Asset Management

Senior Product Owner, Media Asset Management

Virtasant is a leading cloud consulting services provider. We heavily focus on lift & shift, cloud-native development, cloud cost optimization, and migration services. As a consulting company, we are often faced with the challenge to create an engineering team in a matter of a week or two. To do that, we have created a secondary support business that runs an engineering talent network and provides staffing services.

Our client is one of the world’s leading media companies, with a 24-hour English-language news channel, and they are looking for a Senior Product Owner to join their team.

The Senior Product Owner will play a pivotal role for our client, focusing on the strategic and operational management of their Media Asset Management (MAM) systems. This role requires a customer-centric individual with a deep understanding of media workflows and asset management technologies and the ability to oversee the development and enhancement of their media management tools.

Key Responsibilities 

• Strategic Planning: Develop and maintain a strategic vision for managing and enhancing media assets that align with company goals.
• Product Development: Lead the design and implementation of MAM solutions, ensuring they meet industry standards and business requirements.
• Backlog Management: Effectively prioritize the product backlog, ensuring clear documentation and alignment with product strategy.
• Stakeholder Communication: Serve as the primary liaison between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clear and impactful
  communication across all levels of the organization.
• Change Management: Drive change initiatives through a customer-centric approach, facilitating smooth adoption and maximizing user satisfaction.
• Performance Metrics: Define and track key performance indicators to evaluate the effectiveness of media asset management strategies and tools.

Qualifications

• Media Asset Management Expertise: Extensive experience with MAM systems, including implementation, migration, and optimization.
• Design Systems Thinking: Strong capability in systems thinking, understanding, and improving the interaction between various components within digital and media ecosystems.
• Technical Proficiency: Solid technical background with an understanding of software development practices and web technologies.

Required Skills  

• Fluent in Arabic and English, as well as verbal and written skills.
• Written Documentation: Ability to produce clear and detailed documentation that captures complex processes and systems.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Exceptional skill in engaging and communicating with stakeholders at all levels to gather requirements, provide updates, and foster strong relationships.
• Emphasis on clarity and consistency in messaging to ensure alignment and support for project goals.
• Epic and Story Authorship: Expertise in crafting well-defined epics and user stories that effectively guide development teams.
• Backlog Management: Skilled in prioritizing and refining the product backlog to ensure focus on high-impact tasks.
• Change Management: Proven ability to manage change by integrating feedback from users and stakeholders into product development, emphasizing a customer-centric approach to encourage adoption and satisfaction.
• Leadership and Collaboration: Ability to lead cross-functional teams and promote teamwork and collaboration within a dynamic working environment.

Education and experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Digital Media, or related field; Master’s
  preferred.
• At least six years of experience as a Product Owner or similar role in a digital media-related industry, with demonstrated success in managing large-scale MAM systems.
• Experience building cloud solutions (GCP, Azure, AWS) is a must.
• Experience with Arvato/Vidispine or other cloud-based MAM solutions is expected.

Our recruitment process

• Screening interview with the client's hiring manager (30 min)
• Interview with a Engineering Leader / Quality Leader / Product Owner & peers (30 min)
• Final interview (30 min)
• There might be an additional interview with the CTO if needed

We strive to move efficiently from step to step so that the recruitment process can be as fast as possible.

What we offer

• Remote, full-time (40h/week). Proximity to Doha (Qatar) is ideal. 
• No-end-date, independent contractor agreement
• Payment in USD, by-weekly or monthly - your choice