Dolby Careers Senior Product Manager - Dolby Vision Live (40898)

Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future. At Dolby, science meets art, and high tech means more than computer code. As a member of the Dolby team, you’ll see and hear the results of your work everywhere, from movie theaters to smartphones. We continue to revolutionize how people create, deliver, and enjoy entertainment worldwide. To do that, we need the absolute best talent. We’re big enough to give you all the resources you need, and small enough so you can make a real difference and earn recognition for your work. We offer a collegial culture, challenging projects, and excellent compensation and benefits, not to mention a Flex Work approach that is truly flexible to support where, when, and how you do your best work.

Dolby’s consumer entertainment and cinema businesses are bringing Dolby’s breakthrough technologies, powering the world’s top movies, TV shows, music, games, and live sports to more places around the world across a wider range of consumer experiences and devices.

Shape the Future of Live Entertainment with Dolby
 

Dolby is searching for a passionate media technologist to join us as a Senior Product Manager for Dolby Vision Live Distribution solutions.
 

Are you ready to make an impact in the world of live entertainment? At Dolby, we're pioneering the way live sports, events, and channels are experienced. We need a dynamic Product Manager to lead our Dolby Vision Live Distribution solutions, helping to create unparalleled HDR experiences.
 

As a Senior Product Manager for Dolby Vision Live Distribution, you will manage the component products used by streaming providers and broadcasters to create Dolby Vision HDR experiences for sports, live events, and linear channels. You will grow the capabilities, reach, and adoption of existing components while defining new workflows and tools that innovate in the live HDR space. You will form product and ecosystem strategies in concert with Dolby’s broader business, engineering, and ecosystem teams, guided by close collaboration with customers and your deep understanding of live HDR video technology. You will constantly blend big-picture thinking with your ability to look around nuanced technical corners. As a product practitioner, you will turn these product strategies into great outcomes for our customers and professional partners while providing visibility and clarity throughout the organization.

Responsibilities and Scope:

• Create and manage product roadmaps that blend short-term responsive development, strategic feature execution, and long-term architectural investments
• Collaborate with core imaging research and engineering teams to innovate and refine the core technology used by Dolby Vision Live
• Meet regularly with customers and partners to capture their immediate needs, learn their long-term vision, validate roadmap alignment, and provide real-time product and technical domain feedback
• Conduct independent research to identify trends, analyze market opportunities, and refine your expertise on Dolby and generalized video technology
• Create detailed product requirements that are both insightful and complete – giving engineers the context needed to innovate while eliminating ambiguity in outcomes
• Design and build demonstrations and Proof-of-Concept tests that highlight both the latest released technology and pre-released innovations
• Collaborate daily with multiple global engineering teams to align priorities, resolve challenges, and refine requirements
• Participate in broader technology innovation by providing live streaming technical and industry insight
• Author high-quality documents and presentations for both internal and external audiences that provide education on workflows, technology strategies, and product vision

Core Requirements:

• 7+ years of industry experience relating to broadcast infrastructure, live streaming, or media processing
• 3+ years of highly technical product management experience
• Demonstrated experience delivering successful outcomes in technically complex video products
• Strong knowledge on the fundamentals of digital video signaling and HDR
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including public presentations
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience delivering software packaged as development kits, APIs, and command-line interfaces
• Prior hands-on coding history, ideally for video C/C++ based processing components
• Knowledge of OTT packaging standards such as HLS, DASH, and CMAF
• Experience deploying products as cloud-based services
• Agile software development experience or training
   

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The San Francisco/Bay Area base salary range for this full-time position is $184,800 - $253,900, which can vary if outside this location, plus bonus, benefits, and some roles may also include equity. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, competencies, experience, market demands, internal parity, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range and perks and benefits for your location during the hiring process.

Dolby will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of San Francisco Police Code, Article 49, and Administrative Code, Article 12

Equal Employment Opportunity:
Dolby is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our success depends on the combined skills and talents of all our employees. We are committed to making employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, family status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.