Description :
Job Title: Product Manager
Job Category: Marketing
Product: Microsoft TV
Date Posted: 11/08/2007
Job Code: 208575
Location: CA - Mountain View
Travel Required:
JOB DESCRIPTION
Microsoft TV is a division within Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division, alongside the Xbox, Zune, Media Center, and Windows Mobile businesses. We enable the future of television by helping broadband network operators deliver advanced IPTV services and new connected entertainment experiences to audiences worldwide.
The Product Management team has a current opportunity for a high achieving product manager.
Your responsibilities will include:
· Drive the end-to-end planning and productization for your product area(s) utilizing a structured and disciplined approach to product planning
· Identify product opportunities and create the business case for a mobile TV solution
· Analyze customer segments/sizing, competitive landscape, customer requirements, value drivers, and market differentiators
· Develop user scenarios and lead research initiatives
· Craft customer/user value proposition, and sales/marketing plans
· Engage with handset manufacturers and other ecosystem partners to determine client requirements
· Participate in cross-divisional mobile video strategy development
· Work directly with cross-functional teams, customers, and partners to build a carrier-class mobile TV solution
The ideal candidate will have:
· MBA degree
· 5 years of relevant marketing experience - product group experience preferred
· Excellent analytical skills, strategy instincts, and business intuition
· Ability to develop audience insight via definition/execution of holistic research and analysis
· Exceptional cross-organization/cross-function project management and collaboration skills
· Credibility with the Engineering team, the field organization, and our customers
· Strong communication skills and adeptness in working with senior management
· Strong knowledge of the mobile TV industry, key players, and technology
· Hands-on experience of having worked with mobile operators preferred
· Additional background in consulting, investment banking, or business planning desirable.