Product Manager

Role: Product Manager

Location: Burbank CA (Hybrid - Tues-Thurs required)

Contract

Job Responsibilities / Typical Day in the Role

Set and Drive Platform Strategy

• Define the strategic vision and roadmap for the Studio Economics platform—focusing on modularity, scalability, and reuse across business domains and technical teams.
• Identify and prioritize platform capabilities (e.g., shared APIs, orchestration layers, semantic models, monitoring tools) that enable product pods to build faster and more consistently.
• Translate enterprise goals (real-time analytics, AI-readiness, automation) into a platform operating model that enables rapid delivery while preserving long-term stability.
• Lead Architecture Evolution and Technical Alignment
• Oversee the evolution of the cloud-native platform architecture, ensuring technical decisions align with both Studio product needs and enterprise standards.
• Partner with the Cloud Architect to define and maintain infrastructure patterns (e.g., serverless compute, event-based workflows) that are secure, cost-effective, and scalable.
• Work with the Data Architect to ensure data products, pipelines, and canonical models are reusable, governed, and discoverable across domains.
• Enable Cross-Pod Delivery Through Shared Services
• Define platform services (e.g., API Gateway, CI/CD pipelines, schema registries, observability tooling) that streamline onboarding and reduce friction across product pods.
• Drive standardization of architectural patterns and tooling without sacrificing flexibility—balancing governance with usability.
• Track platform adoption, reuse metrics, and feedback loops, and adjust investments based on business outcomes and delivery team needs.
• Champion Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement
• Establish and enforce SLAs, automation standards, and observability baselines (e.g., CloudWatch, X-Ray, OpenSearch) to support production-grade operations.
• Proactively identify platform bottlenecks or fragmentation risks and guide remediation strategies in collaboration with engineers and architects.
• Lead platform retrospectives, incident reviews, and improvement efforts that increase resilience, maintainability, and developer productivity.
• Facilitate Collaboration and Governance
• Act as the primary steward of platform intake, backlog prioritization, and cross-pod coordination—ensuring clarity around platform capabilities and escalation paths.
• Represent the platform in executive forums, product councils, and architecture boards, communicating progress, dependencies, and upcoming enhancements.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security, governance, and regulatory standards—working closely with infosec, compliance, and data governance team

Must Have Skills / Requirements

• 5–10 years of experience in platform strategy, enterprise architecture, or technical product management within complex, multi-product or multi-domain environments.
• Demonstrated success defining and executing platform roadmaps, including delivery of shared services, reusable components, and scalable infrastructure across teams or workstreams.
• Deep technical proficiency in AWS-native architectures, including services such as Lambda, Step Functions, AppSync, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, and Cognito.
• Strong understanding of modular architecture principles, including service abstraction, API design, domain-driven design, and CI/CD integration patterns.
• Experience driving platform adoption and standardization, including implementation of observability tooling (e.g., CloudWatch, OpenSearch, X-Ray), service-level automation, and operational metrics.

Functional Knowledge / Skills in the following areas:

1. You’ll thrive in this role if you:
2. Think in Systems and Services
3. You view the platform not as infrastructure alone, but as a suite of reusable building blocks that enable consistent, intelligent application delivery at scale.
4. Lead with Strategic Agility
5. You translate long-term goals into actionable short-term capabilities—prioritizing wisely while creating space for innovation and resilience.
6. Unify Through Enablement
7. You bring technical leaders together around shared practices, patterns, and reusable assets—removing friction while encouraging autonomy and speed.
8. Advocate for Developer Experience
9. You care deeply about ease-of-use, integration simplicity, and documentation that makes the right path obvious and repeatable.
10. Bridge Business and Technology
11. You operate as a translator—ensuring the platform continuously adapts to business evolution and emerging user needs.

1. You’re likely a strong fit if you bring:
2. Collaboration with Architects and Engineers
3. Ability to partner with Cloud and Data Architects to ensure infrastructure, pipelines, and APIs are designed with reuse, governance, and extensibility in mind.
4. Strong Communication and Product Mindset
5. Proven ability to translate platform strategies into measurable outcomes, communicate trade-offs clearly, and align stakeholders across disciplines.
6. Bias for Enablement and Value Delivery
7. You prioritize simplicity, automation, and developer experience—making it easier for teams to adopt platform capabilities and focus on delivering business value.

Technology Requirements:

1. You’re likely a strong fit if you bring:
2. Platform Leadership Experience
3. technical product management, platform engineering, or enterprise architecture—leading strategy and execution for complex, multi-product environments.
4. Cloud-Native Architecture Fluency
5. Deep expertise with AWS services and modern architectural patterns (e.g., Lambda, Step Functions, AppSync, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Cognito).
6. Cross-Domain System Thinking
7. Strong understanding of real-time data processing, integration patterns, and platform capabilities that scale across domains and teams.
8. Demonstrated success defining and executing platform roadmaps, including delivery of shared services, reusable components, and scalable infrastructure across teams or workstreams.
9. Deep technical proficiency in AWS-native architectures, including services such as Lambda, Step Functions, AppSync, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, and Cognito.
10. Strong understanding of modular architecture principles, including service abstraction, API design, domain-driven design, and CI/CD integration patterns.
11. Experience driving platform adoption and standardization, including implementation of observability tooling (e.g., CloudWatch, OpenSearch, X-Ray), service-level automation, and operational metrics.