Product Manager – Content Ingest
Posted Today by RED Global
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Product Manager – Content Ingest role focuses on enhancing content ingest capabilities within a media technology environment. The position requires collaboration with technical teams and business stakeholders to ensure efficient workflows and product delivery. The role emphasizes managing product backlogs and driving continuous improvement in media supply chain processes. Candidates should have a strong background in product management within the media or broadcast sector.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and manage the product backlog for content ingest initiatives (including requirements gathering, user story creation, ticket refinement, prioritisation and roadmap alignment)
- Collaborate with engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to define product requirements and ensure successful delivery across multiple workstreams.
- Act as the key liaison between technical teams and senior business stakeholders, balancing operational priorities, strategic objectives, and delivery timelines.
- Drive continuous improvement of ingest workflows and operational processes across the media supply chain.
- Support the optimisation and integration of ingest tooling, metadata workflows, quality control processes, and orchestration platforms.
Key Skills:
- Minimum 5 years experience in Product Management experience within Media / broadcast sector
- Strong experience managing Agile product backlogs and working closely with engineering teams in a delivery-focused environment.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively across technical teams, operational users, and senior leadership.
- Solid understanding of content ingest workflows within a broadcast or media ecosystem
- Familiarity with broader ingest tooling ecosystem (e.g. Signiant, Aspera, Telestream, Cerify)
- Awareness or experience with SDVI Rally or similar media supply chain orchestration platforms would be highly beneficial.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Role: Product Manager – Content Ingest
Duration: 12 months + Possible extension
Location: London (W12)
Hybrid (3 days onsite)
Language needed: English (C1)
Eligibility: British citezen or ILR
Rate: Outside IR35 B2B Contract / Freelance / Contract
Scope: We are looking for a Product Manager with experience in media technology and content supply chain workflows to help drive the evolution of our content ingest capabilities. This role sits at the intersection of product, operations, and engineering, working closely with technical teams and business stakeholders to deliver scalable and efficient ingest solutions within a modern broadcast/media environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and manage the product backlog for content ingest initiatives (including requirements gathering, user story creation, ticket refinement, prioritisation and roadmap alignment)
- Collaborate with engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to define product requirements and ensure successful delivery across multiple workstreams.
- Act as the key liaison between technical teams and senior business stakeholders, balancing operational priorities, strategic objectives, and delivery timelines.
- Drive continuous improvement of ingest workflows and operational processes across the media supply chain.
- Support the optimisation and integration of ingest tooling, metadata workflows, quality control processes, and orchestration platforms.
Skill needed:
- Minimum 5 years experience in Product Management experience within Media / broadcast sector
- Strong experience managing Agile product backlogs and working closely with engineering teams in a delivery-focused environment.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively across technical teams, operational users, and senior leadership.
- Solid understanding of content ingest workflows within a broadcast or media ecosystem
- Familiarity with broader ingest tooling ecosystem (e.g. Signiant, Aspera, Telestream, Cerify)
- Awareness or experience with SDVI Rally or similar media supply chain orchestration platforms would be highly beneficial.