Temporary Technical Program Manager, Digital Content Platforms

WELCOME TO HARTBEAT. WE ARE COMEDY. WE ARE CULTURE.

HARTBEAT is the global, multi-platform media company founded by Kevin Hart with a mission to keep the world laughing together. Operating at the intersection of comedy and culture, we are dedicated to creating, producing distributing, and marketing compelling content and experiences that make your heart beat a little faster.

Led by an award-winning team, Hartbeat is a trusted creative partner for the world’s top entertainment companies, platforms, and brands. We drive cultural impact and generate sales, subscriptions, buzz, and conversation with some of the most coveted audiences.

We are committed to nurturing the next generation of diverse comedians while collaborating with established comedy legends. Our ecosystem supports talent, content and brands across various formats, platforms, and opportunities in TV, film, digital, audio, and experiential.

Our flagship consumer brand, LOL! Network, engages audiences through its owned-and-operated social media channels, audio content, and partnerships with OTT platforms.

Hartbeat is seeking a Technical Program Manager (Temporary) to support the launch of a direct-to-consumer app for an exciting new initiative. This role will oversee the delivery of the consumer app, and serve as the primary liaison between Hartbeat stakeholders and an external development team to ensure the app delivers from a technical and business needs perspective. This role will ensure timelines are met, technical decisions support business needs, and the platform is set up for scalable content management and distribution.

Please note:

This is NOT an Engineering role - this is a role that requires technical fluency, program leadership, experience working with external vendors, and managing all moving parts of an app development process.

This temporary assignment will be a 4-month engagement with high ownership and visibility.

• Leverage external development team in execution of consumer app development, managing and owning timelines, milestones, and dependencies across multiple work streams

• Identify risks, unblock issues, and drive decisions to keep app delivery on track

• Ensure tech vendor execution aligns with agreed scope and business priorities

• Partner with Distribution, Creative, and Business stakeholders to clarify requirements

• Translate business needs into clear technical expectations for external development team

• Communicate technical tradeoffs and implications to non-technical leaders and stakeholders

• Bring working knowledge of media or digital asset management (MAM/DAM) concepts

• Advise on content ingestion, metadata, storage, and versioning considerations

• Ensure backend systems and data structures support AI-generated content and future scale

• Oversee UAT and app functionality sign-off before launch

• Run weekly status meetings and executive updates as needed

• Communicate costs involved in the development and day-to-day management of consumer app

• Maintain clear documentation on decisions, workflows, and assumptions

• Ensure alignment across internal and external teams

• 5+ years experience as a Technical Program Manager, Technical Project Manager, or similar

• Must have experience managing the development of consumer-facing apps

• Must understand video streaming app backend

• Must have experience leveraging external development team and manage product development, design, and testing (both iOS and Android) process from end-to-end

• Experience sourcing and identifying data maintenance and storage costs for consumer-facing app

• Must be adept at stakeholder communication, including communicating associated costs involved in the app-development process, and day-to-day management of consumer-app technology

• Track record of successfully navigating iOS and Android app store submission and approval cycles would be a nice-to-have

• Familiarity with content platforms, media workflows, or asset management systems

• Strong judgment, organization, and ability to operate in ambiguity

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