Job Title: Product Developer (Social Tools)
Location: North America - New York, NY
Department: Sling Media Entertainment Group
Reports To: Senior Director of Product Development
Sling Media is a digital lifestyle products company, focused on creating empowering entertainment experiences for consumers. Sling Media’s award winning Slingbox turns any Internet-connected PC, Mac, or mobile device into your home television allowing you to watch your TV virtually anywhere in the world. The Sling Entertainment Group is a division of Sling Media and will deliver new applications and services enabled by the Slingbox’s marriage of familiar TV programming and richly interactive web-connected devices.
Responsibilities:
Product Developers work with cross-functional teams to translate customer needs and technology directions into product definitions. As a Product Developer for Sling Media Entertainment you will be accountable for multi-platform products throughout its life cycle including:
- idea generation,
- gathering requirements,
- developing business and user cases,
- drafting functional specifications,
- concept development and testing, and
- working directly with Producers, Designers and Technologists to execute the product vision and iterate to meet the end-user’s needs.
As a Product Developer focused on Social Tools you will be responsible for understanding and executing against the rapidly changing trends in social networks, specifically:
- community
- blogging
- real-time communications
- feeds
- embeddable widgets (and other sources of viral distribution)
Requirements:
- Minimum 5 years of product design or product management experience (must provide functioning examples)
- Experience gathering requirements and translating them into a product vision and documentation
- A solid understanding of User Centered Design philosophies and the Agile development process
- Excellent written and oral communication skills - must be able to successfully interface with a variety of departments – Editorial, Marketing, Research, Engineering, etc.
- Ability to analyze quantitative reporting data & qualitative research data to inform future product iterations
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
- Deep understanding of the online video and community space
Contact: jobs@slingmedia.com (please reference requisition #169) |
