Optomi, in partnership with a leading entertainment company, is looking for a Staff Product Manager to join their team in Glendale, CA.
Position Summary: This role involves managing the end-to-end product lifecycle for data products, including discovery, requirements, roadmap definition, prioritization, and delivery. This position offers the opportunity to lead the design and implementation of reporting, dashboards, and analytics products for Studio Technology, working closely with internal studio tech stakeholders. What the right candidate will enjoy:
- Working in a hybrid environment, onsite in Glendale, CA, four days a week
- Collaborating with a matrix-style team structure and diverse stakeholder groups
- Leading impactful data initiatives in a large enterprise setting
- Opportunities for contract extension or conversion to a full-time role
- 7+ years of product management or product ownership experience
- Proven success leading complex, cross-functional data initiatives in a matrixed organization
- Strong understanding of data engineering and analytics workflows, including data ingestion, modeling, and visualization
- Executive-level presence and polished communication skills for interactions with VPs
- Comfortable writing user stories, creating test plans, and validating datasets
- Experience working in Agile environments with Jira or similar tools
- Own the end-to-end product lifecycle for data products, from discovery and requirements gathering to roadmap definition and delivery
- Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable product requirements
- Collaborate with data engineers to guide the ingestion, transformation, and modeling of complex datasets
- Lead the design and implementation of reporting, dashboards, and analytics products serving Studio Technology
- Conduct stakeholder demos, roadmap reviews, and backlog grooming in alignment with agile ceremonies
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with both technical teams and stakeholder groups, ensuring alignment and value delivery
