Senior Product Manager, Player Experience
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
Tubi is redefining what free streaming can be. Built boldly for every fandom Tubi delivers the largest library of movies and TV shows on the planet spanning Hollywood hits cult classics creator-led stories and an ever-growing slate of Tubi Originals crafted for passionate audiences. With over 100 million monthly active users and a footprint that makes us the most-watched free streaming service in the U.S. and Canada were on a mission to give everyone access to the worlds stories.
About the Role:
At the heart of Tubis experience is the player: the moment a user presses play and the world around them dissolves into a story. Tubis Player team owns thecore player UX and video playback experience across every platform: CTV mobile and web. From the first frame to the final second this team shapes how over 100 million monthly active users watch discover and engage our library and drives Tubis most important business outcomes.
Were seeking a Senior Product Manager for our Player Experience to lead the vision strategy and execution for this team. This role sits at the intersection of innovation in UI/UX design rigorous experimentation and technical video infrastructure owning everything from playback controls and in-player discovery surfaces to the live TV experience and AI-powered UX features that are redefining how users interact with content. This is a high-impact high-visibility role for a PM who thrives on building groundbreaking UX moving fast through data and thinking deeply about what the future of streaming feels like
This is a hybrid role based out of our San Francisco office. You must be willing to travel to ourSan Francisco office two days/week.
What Youll Do:
- Own the Player roadmap: Define product strategy OKRs and success metrics targeting view time revenue and engagement across Tubis playback surfaces from pre-roll through post-play. Translate the teams H1 and annual bets into a coherent prioritized plan and maintain ruthless focus on the highest-leverage investments.
- Design innovative playback UI/UX: Lead a high-velocity program to build best-in-class playback experiences including dynamic post-play flows browse-while-watching surfaces in-player content discovery and AI driven experiences that push what a player UI can do. You dont just iterate on existing patterns; you conceive of experiences users didnt know they wanted and have the conviction to ship them.
- Drive a world-class A/B testing program: Own the end-to-end experimentation lifecycle for player experiences from hypothesis design to instrumentation to analysis. Run dozens of concurrent experiments maintain rigorous testing methodology and translate complex behavioral signals from large-scale experiments into decisive fast-moving product bets. Your experiments should consistently compound into measurable view time and revenue lift.
- Shape AI-powered features: Define and ship AI-driven features across both the user-facing playback experience and backend player operations. This includes intelligent features that deepen content engagement during playback and leveraging AI to accelerate player diagnostics experiment analysis and operational efficiency making the team faster without sacrificing quality.
- Own the live TV viewing experience: Drive strategy and execution for Tubis linear channel product including the EPG (electronic program guide) channel playback and the end-to-end viewer journey for scheduled programming. Linear channels are a growing and strategically important part of Tubis content offering and this role will play an increasingly central part in how Tubi supports and evolves its live content platform over time.
- Maximize ad revenue through smart playback design: Partner with Ads and Engineering to optimize ad experiences within the player including pre-roll timing cue point optimization and ad-adjacent UX balancing monetization with viewer experience to drive incremental revenue without sacrificing retention.
- Ensure rock-solid playback quality: Partner with Engineering to define quality thresholds track key QoS metrics (buffering startup time error rates concurrency performance) and own the players reliability and stability roadmap across platforms and device types.
- Drive cross-functional alignment: Work closely with Design Engineering Data Science ML and Ads to ship cohesive high-quality experiences and serve as the PM voice for playback across Tubis product organization. Keep stakeholders informed and aligned through clear communication strong documentation and well-run planning processes.
Your Background:
- 6 years of product management experience with significant time building consumer-facing products in streaming media or other high-engagement high-volume environments where user behavior data drives every decision.
- Exceptional track record in A/B experimentation with hands-on experience designing running and analyzing user-facing experiments at scale. You understand statistical significance experiment instrumentation and the nuances of measuring behavioral outcomes and you use this rigor to move fast without cutting corners. This is a core requirement not a nice-to-have.
- Strong creative and UX instincts with a demonstrated ability to conceive and ship novel UI/UX experiences. Youve built things that felt genuinely new not just optimized versions of what already existed and you can articulate and defend bold product bets with both qualitative intuition and quantitative support.
- Strong analytical fluency including comfort with behavioral data funnel analysis session-level metrics and the ability to translate complex experiment results into clear actionable product direction.
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional teams across Engineering Design Data Science and Operations to deliver high-quality reliable product at scale and on time.
- Deep user empathy and storytelling skills with the ability to hold both the micro (what does this interaction feel like) and the macro (how does this feature move our key metrics) simultaneously and communicate both effectively to diverse audiences.
Preferred
- Technical understanding of video playback is preferred: familiarity with adaptive bitrate streaming (HLS/DASH) DRM buffering dynamics player state machines CDN behavior or ad insertion technology will help you move faster and build more credibly with your engineering team.
- Experience with Live TV & Events or scheduled content products including EPG design live channel playback flows live event production and real-time content scheduling.
- Background with AI/ML-powered product features whether user-facing (personalization intelligent adaptive UI) or operational (anomaly detection automated diagnostics experiment acceleration).
- Cross-platform product experience across CTV mobile and web with an understanding of how playback behavior user intent and technical constraints differ across device types.
- Experience in ad-supported streaming with familiarity around AVOD monetization mechanics ad insertion tradeoffs or revenue-adjacent UX decisions.
- Bonus: Exposure to live events sports or real-time broadcasting from a product or platform perspective including coordinating cross-team execution for high-stakes launches.
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Tubi is a division of Fox Corporation and the FOX Employee Benefits summarizedherecovers the majority of all US employee following distinctions below outline the differences between the Tubi and FOXbenefits:
- For US-based non-exempt Tubi employees the FOX Employee Benefits summary accurately captures the Vacation and Sick Time.
- For all salaried/exempt employees in lieu of the FOX Vacation policy Tubi offers a Flexible Time off Policy to manage all personal matters.
- For all full-time regular employees in lieu of FOX Paid Parental Leave Tubi offers a generous Parental Leave Program which allows parents twelve (12) weeks of paid bonding leave within the first year of birth adoption surrogacy or foster placement of a child in addition to applicable government leave program(s) and FOXs short-term disability policy. This time is 100% paid through a combination of any applicable state city and federal leaves and wage-replacement programs in addition to contributions made by Tubi.
- For all full-time regular employees Tubi offers a monthly wellness reimbursement.
Boldly built for every fandom Tubi is a free streaming service that entertains over 100 million monthly active users. Tubi offers the worlds largest collection of Hollywood movies and TV shows thousands of creator-led stories and hundreds of Tubi Originals made for the most passionate fans. Headquartered in San Francisco and founded in 2014 Tubi is part of Tubi Media Group a division of Fox Corporation.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin gender identity disability protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
Watch free movies and TV shows online in HD on any device. Tubi offers streaming movies in genres like Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Crime and Comedy. Watch now.