Senior Program Manager, Roku
Platform Products & User Experience
$145-260k
Plus equity
Office located in San Jose, CA
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
Be an early applicant
Convenient and affordable TV streaming players
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$145-260k
Plus equity
Office located in San Jose, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide its users with a more convenient and cost effective way of watching the programs they love.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience in program management, preferably within ad tech, consumer experience, UX domains
- 8+ years in a technology, engineering or media company with experience in consumer facing software product launches
- Extreme comfort with ambiguity
- Ability to come up to speed quickly and contribute in a diverse set of technical areas
- Data driven and pragmatic with excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Ability to present and convey key insights effectively to executive management
- Ability to engage business leaders in thoughtful debate on issues, plans, and solutions
- Strong leadership skills with ability to motivate teams outside of your direct purview
- Jira, Confluence & Airtable mastery is a plus
What the job involves
- The Platform Product & UX Program Management Team ensures the success of the company’s most critical initiatives, including new business ideas, product launches, partner initiatives, organizational governance, and growth initiatives
- The team comprises of senior program management leaders with business acumen and technical awareness, adept at solving complex problems, creating and enhancing teams, overseeing cross-functional initiatives and excelling at product operations
- Drive the end-to-end planning and execution of product roadmap, aligning Product, Engineering, Operations and Business stakeholders to enable work on cross-functional business impacting initiatives
- Track and communicate roadmap progress and milestones, ensure alignment with organizational goals and maintain transparency across all teams through metrics reporting & insights generation
- Understanding of testing frameworks and ability to support product with A/B testing scope/timelines and analysis to drive informed product decisions
- Build and lead multiple core teams for consumer facing software related products working on cross-functional & complex projects from early ambiguity through successful launch and closure
- Participate in diverse technical discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful & scalable deployment
- Manage critical decision making, anticipate and mitigate potential risks, explore and implement contingency plans, and ensure cross-functional alignment throughout a program's lifecycle
- Facilitate communications across the company to ensure transparency of program progress and risks, maintain plan-of-record and provide appropriate and timely updates to our executive team
- Implement and monitor operational efficiencies, and standards to achieve organizational goals and maintain high-quality service delivery
- Identify and drive process improvements that make the org and future programs more effective
- Manage headcount planning and optimize resource allocation to meet the team requirements and goals
- Examples include setting goals and KPIs, improving organizational efficiency and structure, execution of change management, ongoing process improvements, All Hands planning and execution
Our take
According to Nielsen data, the average streamer spends over seven minutes searching for something to watch. Streaming services use customers' viewing history to make suggestions, but these are limited to programs licensed for that particular service.
Roku provides an integrated streaming service that offers TV channels, movies and third-party streaming services, resulting in an all-in-one streaming platform. The service can be accessed through a variety of customized subscription packages and fees.
Roku stands out in the streaming industry by bringing many competitors together in one package. The startup provides further innovative services such as a weekly TV series named 'Roku Recommends' which uses first-party data to recommend essential viewing to users. Alongside funding filmmakers through its "Change Makers Program", Roku also acquired its own original library of shows through its acquisition of now-defunct Quibi's library in 2021. After successful collaborations with TCL and Hisense, the first in-house "Roku Television" was released in 2023, further exemplifying the streaming company's wider ambitions in the media sector.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2016
$45.5m
LATE VC
Nov 2015
$45.5m
SERIES H
Total funding: $247.8m
Company benefits
- Medical, wellness and financial benefits
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
- Free snacks and access to the company fitness center
Company HQ
Newhall, San Jose, CA
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Leadership
Anthony Wood
(CEO)Studied Engineering at Texas A&M before founding their first company in 1986. They held VP roles at both Adobe and Netflix.
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