WORK OPTION: In Office

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This position is responsible for ensuring the quality of experience for the NBA’s digital products across multiple platforms with an emphasis on mobile applications, web, and connected devices. The Digital Operations, Live Game team member will work during the NBA live game window during evenings and weekends to manage the night-to-night product quality, live stream verification and incident management processes in partnership with the NBA Digital Operations Center Level 1 and technical support teams. The role will also oversee all functional frontend product quality control processes surrounding real time bug validation, incident management 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 stakeholder throughout the software development lifecycle for the DOC's proprietary QoS/QoE/functional live streaming tools.

Supervise live game/stream management of consumer facing operational items such as comfortability executing manual interventions and using data to drive issue escalation protocols

Lead projects to enhance operational efficiencies through coordination cross functionally with 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

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

Prepare reporting and documentation to communicate ideas, gain stakeholder approvals, report project statuses, measure & track KPIs for the NBA's digital product operations

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

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

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.