Product Manager - Antwerp, Belgium - English Speaking

PRODUCT MANAGER - ANTWERP, BELGIUM - ENGLISH SPEAKING

(PRODUCT MANAGEMENT, PRODUCT ARCHITECTURE, PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE, PAY-TV, DVR, STREAMING MEDIA, PAY-TV VIDEO, INTERNET VIDEO, STREAMING MEDIA, HTTP ADAPTICE BITRATE, CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS)

One of our Blue Chip Clients is urgently looking for a Product Manager.

PLEASE FIND SOME DETAILS BELOW:

The Role

We are looking to contract a Product Manager to join an experienced product management team. The role is based in Antwerp, Belgium and the successful candidate is expected to be office-based unless attending customer meetings. There will be travel involved but it is not expected to exceed 20%, and will primarily be within the EU and USA but with the possibility of some worldwide travel.

As Product Manager you will play an active role in the Cloud DVR Product Line, working closely with every department within the client's Video BU and also interfacing with the wider organizations. 

The role is demanding and involves working in a dynamic, international environment in a very high growth marketplace.

Main Responsibilities

Product Management is a multi-faceted role and will involve the following responsibilities

- Support the Product Management and Product Architecture team by writing detailed Product Requirements, User Stories and Acceptance Criteria so that Engineering teams are able to create implementation tasks
- Create product and feature descriptions to enable the Presales Support team to create customer-facing documentation and marketing tools for product collateral
- Support Business Development and Pre-Sales organizations in the client's global regions
- Prepare and deliver technical customer presentations
- Be a point of contact for the Business Development, Pre-Sales, Operations and Delivery teams on all aspects of the product catalogue
- Manage the relationship with third-party suppliers
- Contribute to managing the Product Life Cycle

Key Skills

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills and be able to negotiate a positive and collaborative approach across multiple internal stakeholder and delivery areas
- Be comfortable explaining complex technical issues and solutions in an appropriate manner to a variety of different business areas, such as Engineering teams, Operations, Legal, Procurement, Marketing, Technical Consulting, Business Development plus other internal and external organizations
- Must be able to demonstrate good analytical skills and attention to detail
- Self-motivated, proactive, organized and thorough individual with a proven ability to prioritize, multi-task effectively and stick to deadlines
- Comfortable with using spreadsheets, numeric analysis and PowerPoint
- Excellent written skills and a good communicator 

Desirable Skills

We'd love it if you know everything there is to know about absolutely everything on this list but we recognize that you probably won't, so tell us about what you do know

- Product Life Cycle knowledge
- Working knowledge of software development processes
- Pay-TV systems, client or network video applications such as network DVR.
- Pay-TV Video and Streaming Media, for example MPEG2TS, MPEG2, H.264, HEVC, RTSP or video Servers.
- Internet Video and Streaming Media, including HTTP Adaptive Bitrate such as HLS, Smooth Streaming or DASH.
- Content Distribution Networks.
- General Web Technology eg HTTP, web Servers, web Proxy, web apps and DNS.
- Networking Technologies eg Multicast, TCP/IP, Ethernet and IP routing.

Prerequisites

- 5+ years experience in a technical role, preferably in Product Management and/or Video Solution Architecture
- Bachelors degree in a technical subject, or an equivalent combination of education and technical/professional experience
- Competent MS Excel and PowerPoint skills
- High standard of written English
-  Must be legally eligible to work in Belgium

Please send CV for full details and immediate interviews. We are a preferred supplier to the client.