Senior Product Manager - OTT Live & On-Demand Video Platform
Portugal Based - Remote Working from Portugal
In this role at OneFootball, you will play a pivotal role in aligning our product development efforts with the consumer expectations from football fans for a best-in-class live and on-demand watch experience. Creating product-driven business impact and consumer insights by delivering value for both consumers around the world and on-platform broadcasters such as Sky Sports, DAZN, and Globo is at the core of this position.
You will be the voice of our video customers inside the company, ensuring our products resonate and meet the needs of our diverse fan base. Your work will directly influence how we develop, position, and promote our products to consumers.
What you’ll do:
Vision
- Lead the product development efforts for our OTT (pay-per-view) video content experience inside OneFootball's ecosystem, including mobile, desktop, connected TV devices and the OneFootball (Embed) Player.
- Serve as the crucial link between product development teams and the customers.
- Lead efforts in understanding and segmenting our install base, deep-diving into their video content discovery, purchase and consumption journeys.
- Stay ahead of OTT and video market trends, understand optimisations and dynamics to inform strategic decisions.
Strategy
- Research and prioritise features in line with the overall OTT video strategy, from small-to-big-screen devices, from free to paid offerings, and from horizontal to vertical watch experiences.
- Align OTT strategy with the overall product vision to maximise commercial and strategic impact.
- Stay abreast of market competition and potential service delivery improvements to ensure market competitiveness.
- Work closely with (external) partners to deliver initiatives that reciprocally drive business and customer value.
- Develop go-to-market plans, guiding their execution and necessary adaptations.
- Analyse full-funnel dynamics to optimise product offerings and growth, from acquisition to retention.
OTT & Video Delivery
- Provide product direction for the Live and On-Demand Video squads, in alignment with OTT business leadership.
- Actively seek inputs from stakeholders, partners and wider business to maximise the value of feature delivery.
- Frame the go-to-market story narrative and build a strong relationship with our business verticals.
- Spearhead customer lifecycle management initiatives, focusing on enhancing discovery, engagement, conversion, and retention.
- Gain a deep understanding of the funnel and conversion behaviours to inform strategic marketing and product development decisions.
What we’re looking for:
- Proven impact/experience leading product teams, ideally in an OTT, video-on-demand and/or live broadcasting environment.
- Strong people skills - the ability to effectively engage with junior staff to C-level, both internally and externally.
- Deep customer curiosity and strong, active listening
- Genuine product curiosity
- A strategic mindset that is also execution-strong, capable of translating vision into action.
- Proven ability to collaborate across teams and disciplines, fostering a unified approach to product management.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Critical thinking with the ability to constantly question the status quo.
- Business acumen that complements your product expertise.
- Technical competence that allows for meaningful conversations with product development teams and a deep understanding of our products
Nice to Have
- A broad understanding of video delivery processes, pipelines and technologies.
At OneFootball, we value the insights and ideas that stem from having a diverse team. We believe everyone should have the opportunity to be a part of the beautiful game—irrespective of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, age, background, sexual orientation, religion, team followed, or other personal traits.
Whether you're a dedicated 24/7 football fan or not, we actively seek to recruit and support a diverse team to ensure our platform, football, and the wider world are viewed through an inclusive lens.
What We Do
No one gets fans closer to the beautiful game than OneFootball. Reaching over 100 million monthly active users worldwide, OneFootball is the most popular football media platform for the new generation of football fanatics. Understanding that the world’s football obsession goes beyond the 90 minutes of a match, OneFootball users get access to the most comprehensive football coverage on and off the pitch: from breaking news, highlight clips and live streaming to statistics and live scores of hundreds of leagues and competitions worldwide – fans get all the content they crave. OneFootball is the only company to offer single live football matches in-app on a free and pay-per-view basis, while native integration from OneFootball’s network of over 150 clubs, leagues, federations, players, as well as hundreds of independent content creators, and broadcasters adds close to 200k pieces of editorial and video content per month. Founded in 2008, the company has a global reach – with headquarters in Berlin and regional hubs in London, Singapore and Lisbon – and is deeply embedded in the football ecosystem, with shareholders including top-tier clubs Arsenal, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Juventus, Liverpool, Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain, Real Madrid, Olympique de Marseille, Borussia Dortmund and Tottenham Hotspur, as well as the German FA. OneFootball is available in 12 languages and is the best-rated sports app in the world, based on millions of App Store and Google Play reviews
