Director - Digital Product Development - Viacom - New York

Job description
Music Group Connected Content, a division of Viacom Media Networks, aims to create innovative digital products for today's tech savvy generation of our various TV channels including MTV, VH1, CMT, and LOGO. Currently, we are seeking energetic and skilled product developers to take on some of our ambitious initiatives in the TV shows, music, movie, news, and events domains. If you have an outstanding track record of designing and delivering successful digital consumer products and are excited about the future of media experience for the web, mobile, apps, and emerging platforms such as social and interactive TV, we want to talk to you!
The right candidates will join a team of seasoned product developers, designers, and engineers that have developed and managed products for start-ups, media companies, and interactive agencies. This hands-on role blends business, technology, and design. In an average day, you might be immersed in running agile standup, spec'ing out requirements, sketching out UI designs, running user testing sessions, analyzing usage data, or evaluating a start-up's technology. Ideal candidates would have a strong execution mindset and be strong in at least one vertical areas: apps (iOS/Android), video players and other media/ad technologies, analytics, API, and responsive design.

Desired Skills and Experience
* Translate user needs and business objectives into intuitive and compelling consumer products used by millions of users.
* Create useful product specifications, manage and prioritize agile roadmaps and teams.
* Strive for agility, but build with practicality, reusability, and scalability in mind.
* Maintain awareness of trends and advancements in the digital consumer space.
* Be the "CEO" of respective product and manage a wide array of internal and external teams.
Key attributes
* Tech Cred: You are highly technical and have worked with designers/tech significantly.
* Hands-on and detailed oriented approach. You can lead teams and show clear paths and goals and execute like a project manager. You do not leave open task unattended.
* Results: You have a successful record of defining and launching digital consumer products. Even better, they resulted in cost savings, new revenue, or new market positioning.
* User-driven. You test with users before building heavily. You care about design details including UX, layout, typography.
* Creative and Innovative. Dreaming up and studying new products are your hobbies. You always know how to make your products better.
BS required. Computer science/engineering majors ideal(MS/MBA/PhD a plus).
If you are interested in joining us to build products for millions of users, please apply! Bonus point: include your portfolio/sample work sites.

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