Product Manager - OTT and Streaming Services

About the Role

Forsyth Barnes collaborates with a leading international media company to hire a Product Manager focused on an innovative OTT and streaming platform in the Gulf region, based in Doha, Qatar. This platform specializes in delivering premium live sports, entertainment, and family content to mobile, web, and connected devices audiences.

The appointed Product Manager will be integral to a dynamic product team, responsible for enhancing digital product experiences with emphasis on video playback, content discovery, navigation, and user journeys.

Primary Responsibilities

• Drive and evolve product initiatives within the OTT platform, focusing on video experience, content exploration, and user engagement.
• Analyze customer behavior, feedback, commercial goals, and market trends to set clear product priorities and develop roadmaps.
• Create detailed product documents including requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and customer journey maps.
• Lead product discovery through user research, competitive analysis, prototyping, usability testing, and concept validation.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to refine front-end usability and information architecture.
• Coordinate with engineering teams to evaluate technical feasibility and ensure scalable, reliable deliveries.
• Leverage data analytics to monitor user behaviors, pain points, and assess product changes.
• Develop insights into regional streaming audience preferences and behaviors across sports, entertainment, and children's programming.
• Benchmark the platform against leading OTT services globally and regionally to integrate best practices.
• Stay informed on competitive OTT market trends to capitalize on opportunities and mitigate risks.
• Support product deployments across iOS, Android, web, connected TV, and cloud platforms.
• Work cross-functionally with commercial, marketing, customer service, and content teams to align product strategies with business goals.
• Enhance product development processes and documentation for more efficient delivery from concept to customer value.
• Communicate product roadmaps, performance, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Experiment with AI-based tools for improving product discovery, analysis, prototyping, and workflows.

Required Experience and Skills

• 3 to 5 years of experience in digital product management or closely related fields.
• Preferably experience within OTT, streaming, digital media, sports tech, or high-traffic digital platforms.
• Comprehensive knowledge of product lifecycle: discovery, prioritization, roadmapping, prototyping, delivery, and optimization.
• Proven ability to translate user insights and data into enhanced product experiences.
• Collaborative background working with UX, design, engineering, and data analytics teams.
• Expertise in front-end user journeys, usability, navigation, and information architecture.
• Experience delivering digital products on mobile and web platforms, including cloud-based applications.
• Familiarity with product/development lifecycle on iOS, Android, web, and cloud technologies.
• Competency in prototype creation and testing using modern product design tools.
• Ability to interpret and analyze user data, conversion rates, and engagement metrics.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, and presentation skills.
• Experience working in agile or fast-paced product settings.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Balances analytical rigor with creative product thinking and strong customer empathy.
• Confident managing a product from concept through prototyping and testing.
• Proactive and action-oriented with a strong sense of ownership.
• Comfortable challenging existing approaches and recommending data-backed solutions.
• Technically knowledgeable to work alongside engineers and grasp dependencies and risks.
• Passionate about sports, media, entertainment, or streaming technologies.
• Understanding of fundamental sports elements such as fixtures, results, live events, and highlights.
• Keen interest in evolving customer behaviors and OTT market trends.
• Open to utilizing AI tools to enhance productivity and product decisions.
• Thrives in collaborative, ambitious, and fast-changing environments.

Indicators of Success

• Improved video consumption rates and heightened customer engagement across platforms.
• More intuitive navigation and enhanced content discovery processes.
• Increased user conversion, retention, and repeat usage metrics.
• Accelerated and data-driven product discovery and validation.
• Clear prioritization of product initiatives based on evidence.
• Consistent and reliable delivery of customer-centric improvements.
• Strong collaboration among product, design, engineering, data, and commercial teams.
• Greater understanding of regional user behavior and streaming preferences.

Benefits and Working Environment

• Competitive salary package and performance-related bonuses.
• Comprehensive healthcare coverage.
• Visa and relocation assistance for eligible candidates.
• End-of-service benefits aligning with local laws.
• Formal onboarding and ongoing professional growth opportunities.
• Access to top-tier OTT technology and content portfolios.
• Work alongside experienced professionals across product, media, tech, and commercial teams.
• Dynamic, innovation-driven work culture based in Doha.

Additional Information

This permanent full-time position requires on-site presence in Doha. Candidates relocating from outside Qatar should be prepared to integrate into the local media and product ecosystem. The role offers a distinctive chance to influence how audiences in the Gulf region experience sports and entertainment digitally within a rapidly advancing media and tech landscape.