Product Manager Content Supply Chain

Company Description

VERSANT is a leading force in news, sports and entertainment - home to iconic and trusted brands that inspire, inform, and delight audiences. Our unique combination of content, technology and services enriches the cultural fabric, igniting passions, sparking conversations, and connecting people to what they love most.

As an independent, publicly traded company, VERSANT brings together powerhouse cable networks - including USA Network, CNBC, MS NOW (formerly MSNBC), Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Golf Channel - with dynamic digital and direct-to-consumer brands such as Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, Golf Now, Golf Pass, and Sports Engine. Together, these businesses reflect our commitment to delivering exceptional experiences across every screen and service.

VERSANT is an industry-changing media company fueled by innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit. With a strong foundation and a forward-looking vision, VERSANT empowers creativity, embraces change, and drives connection in an ever-evolving world.

Versant Media is seeking Product Owners to join our Content and Operations team, supporting the delivery of reliable, scalable, and compliant tools and platforms that power the accurate and timely ingest, fulfillment, scheduling, and distribution of content across platforms and endpoints, while reducing operational friction and enabling sustainable scale.

You’ll serve as a core member of a cross-functional squad, driving solutions that unify asset readiness, scheduling coordination, compliance validation, and multi-platform delivery, while improving transparency, predictability, and execution across dependent teams.

Your work will directly enhance the speed, accuracy, reliability, and scalability of Versant’s content supply chain, supporting a resilient and efficient operating model.

This role is ideal for product thinkers with hands‑on experience in media workflows, a systems mindset, and a drive to improve productivity and reduce operational friction through modern, well‑aligned technology. The role emphasizes strong cross‑team collaboration, clear prioritization, and disciplined execution in support of shared business outcomes.

• Backlog Ownership:
  Define, refine, and prioritize product backlog items in alignment with shared business priorities, delivery commitments, and operational outcomes, ensuring focus on the work that delivers the greatest impact.
• Business Engagement & Alignment:
  Actively engage with business and operational stakeholders to clarify priorities, surface gaps or ambiguities, and ensure shared understanding of goals, constraints, and delivery expectations, strengthening alignment between business needs and technology execution.
• Workflow Enablement:
  Partner with ingest, QC, packaging, scheduling, traffic, playout, and partner management stakeholders to translate operational needs into actionable user stories that reduce friction, improve orchestration, and enable reliable end‑to‑end delivery.
• Delivery Execution:
  Collaborate daily with engineering, design, and QA to support sprint planning, reviews, and execution, driving predictable delivery and clear tradeoffs across scope, capacity, and timelines.
• Operational Support:
  Ensure product enhancements support real‑world content operations, including SLA monitoring, compliance validation, scheduling accuracy, and delivery‑status visibility, with a focus on reliability and operational resilience.
• System Modernization:
  Contribute to the transformation from legacy tools to scalable, cloud‑native solutions, helping simplify the technology stack and improve long‑term maintainability, scalability, and delivery speed.
• Automation & Intelligence:
  Help embed intelligent automation into tooling—such as predictive schedule and fulfillment readiness, intelligent QC, metadata validation, and anomaly detection—to improve productivity and reduce manual effort across operational workflows.
• Documentation & Training:
  Maintain clear product documentation and support the rollout of new capabilities to operational users, enabling adoption, consistency, and reuse across teams.
• Cross‑Team
  
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