Entertainment roadmap management
Brand: Liberty Latin America

Job Purpose:

• The Strategy & Roadmap for Ent&Con Manager is responsible for creating and managing the technology roadmap for entertainment and connectivity as well as managing the roadmap completion according the strategy

• He/she will act based on product development strategy, market opportunities and obsolete technologies.

 

Key Accountabilities:

• Define the technology strategy for Entertainment services, for all markets, in current and future technologies within the LLA markets/Opcos

      oThis requires separate strategy, one for the legacy technologies as well as

      oStrategy for new technologies under or to be developed

• Technology strategy for Entertainment must include: Product Development plans, strategy and market opportunities. The strategy must contain a 2-5-year view, and has to be well documented

• Present technology strategy on Entertainment to key stake holders, i.e. Product Development, for continuous cross validation

• Coordinate the implementation of the Entertainment Technology Strategy with all Ent & Conn Technology Team with overall analysis, roadmaps and High-Level Design (HLD)

• Manage and Monitor Entertainment technology Strategy implementation by the Engineering Teams within the Technology Group

• Technology strategy for Connectivity must include: Product Development plans and strategy and market opportunities. The strategy must contain short and long-term view.

• Present technology strategy on Connectivity to key stake holders, i.e. Product Development for continuous validation between Technology and Product strategy to be consistent

• Coordinate the implementation of the Connectivity Technology Strategy with all Ent & Conn Technology Team with overall analysis, roadmaps and High-Level Design (HLD)

• Manage and Monitor the execution of Connectivity technology Strategy by the Engineering Teams within the Technology Group

• Maintain fluent and constant communication with key stakeholders including Product Development, Opcos with Operational needs, Tech & Strategy Business Management

• Responsible to secure proper central (LLA) and distributed (Opcos) budget for all Entertainment & Connectivity technology projects

 

Knowledge & Experience:

 

Preferred education/ qualifications:

• Bachelor level, Electrical/Electronic/Information Technology and/or comparable technical engineering degree.

 

Knowledge & Experience:

• Ideally educated to degree level or alternate appropriate industry experience.

• Demonstrable experience of 5 to 10 years working in a large telco in a complex operational environment managing cross-functional teams.

• Proven experience engaging effectively with executive and senior level management.    

• Experience and appreciation of working in a customer focused environment essential.

 

Skills & Abilities:

• Proven knowledge on Entertainment (Video) Technologies for Back Office solutions, Media Transport and Media Delivery

• Proven knowledge on Connectivity (Broadband) Technologies for VAS and In home solutions 

• Proven experience managing highly complex technology projects

• Capable of long term planning, anticipate future scenarios or changes and modify long term plan accordingly

• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels, translating complex technical language into high level executive narrative.

• Proven experience in managing technical teams.

• Ability to drive improvement programs across diverse and complex environments.

• Strong record of people management (direct or indirect) including communication, negotiation and conflict resolution skills

• Proven ability to establish and maintain effective internal and external working partnerships at all levels through a collaborative approach. 

• Demonstrate strong influencing and persuading skills, encourage colleagues and teams to change established processes and achieve improvements and best practice.

• Timeliness in all actions with quality consciousness towards services received and provided.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to form strong business relationships across multiple locations.

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