Digital Operations, Live Games

WORK OPTION: Onsite

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Position Summary:

This position is responsible for ensuring the quality and experience of NBA digital products across multiple platforms with an emphasis on mobile applications, web, and connected devices. The Digital Operations, Live Game team member will manage the night-to-night product monitoring, live stream verification and issue escalation processes in partnership with the NBA DOC's Level 1 and external technical support teams. The role will also oversee all functional frontend product QA processes surrounding real time bug validation, incident management tracking and ticket creation prioritizing bug fixes per each NBA app release and web deployment for NBA.com. Additional responsibilities will consist of executing process enhancements to productivity, issue escalation workflows, quality assurance and efficiency leveraging best in class engineering & analytic tools such as, New Relic, Postman, Bitmovin, Grafana & Amplitude and shall be a key team member throughout the entire software development lifecycle for the DOC's proprietary QoS/QoE/functional live streaming tool, Mission Control Dashboard.

Major Responsibility:

• Supervise live game/stream management of consumer facing operational items such as publishing events live and manual slating activation via the Mission Control Dashboard
• Lead projects through coordination of delivery schedules across Product Development, Content and Media Technology departments; identify product and/or design flaws to be addressed by the Product Development teams via coordinated bug triage sessions
• Hours of operation to support evening and weekend customer aligned activities
• Work directly with the Digital Operations leadership team and serve as the day-to-day lead on all thing's digital operations focused
• Identify, track, prioritize and drive resolution of project/program level issues, leveraging lessons learned from prior experience and work to address and mitigate systemic issues
• Support team owner VIP technical support services for NBA and its Affiliated League digital products
• Prepare documentation to communicate ideas, gain stakeholder approvals, report project statuses, measure & track KPIs for the NBA's next gen operations monitoring product
• Research new digital technologies to support innovation opportunities for NBA and its affiliated digital products
• Monitor message boards and social media outlets and report on fans positive/negative feedback relating to NBA digital products

Required Skills/Knowledge:

• 3-5 years of experience in digital product operations and analysis / digital product management and live streaming, with a strong background in delivering on business goals
• Strong ability to gather and analyze data from a variety of engineering & analytic tools such as, New Relic, Postman, Bitmovin, Grafana & Amplitude, to help draw conclusions and institute useful plans to issue resolution
• Proven ability to balance multiple projects, set priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced ever evolving work environment
• Experience in SDLC via Agile methodologies (SAFe preferred)
• Familiarity with common stacks and API/SDK integrations
• Comfortable proposing new ideas among various internal stakeholders and business units, and collaborating with design, technical, programming, marketing, and Direct to Consumer teams
• Knowledge of Customer Identity and Access Management / IDP providers (i.e., Okta, Akamai, etc.) and Content Delivery Networks (e.g., Akamai) and CI/CD stack Active user of digital products, specifically iOS and Android operating systems, web browsers, connected device platforms as well as production and QA environments
• Excellent research, analytical, multi-tasking and project management skills
• Knowledge of the current digital sports and technology landscape
• Familiarity with premium sports packages inside and outside the NBA

Education:

• Bachelor's degree required Master preferred

We Consider Applicants For All Positions On The Basis Of Merit, Qualifications And Business Needs, And Without Regard To Race, Color, National Origin, Religion, Sex, Gender Identity, Age, Disability, Alienage Or Citizenship Status, Ancestry, Marital Status, Creed, Genetic Predisposition Or Carrier Status, Sexual Orientation, Veteran Status, Familial Status, Status As A Victim Of Domestic Violence Or Any Other Status Or Characteristic Protected By Applicable Federal, State, Or Local Law.