What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vice President, Media Distribution position at SiriusXM?
Who We Are:
SiriusXM and its brands (Pandora, Stitcher, SXM Media, AdsWizz, Simplecast, and SiriusXM Connected Vehicle Services) are leading a new era of audio entertainment and services by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad-supported audio entertainment experience for listeners -- in the car, at home, and anywhere on the go with connected devices. Our vision is to shape the future of audio, where everyone can be effortlessly connected to the voices, stories and music they love wherever they are.
This is the place where a diverse group of emerging talent and legends alike come to share authentic and purposeful songs, stories, sounds and insights through some of the best programming and technology in the world. Our critically-acclaimed, industry-leading audio entertainment encompasses music, sports, comedy, news, talk, live events, and podcasting. No matter their individual role, each of our employees plays a vital part in bringing SiriusXM’s vision to life every day.
SiriusXM is the leading audio entertainment company in North America, and the premier programmer and platform for subscription and digital advertising-supported audio products. SiriusXM’s platforms collectively reach approximately 150 million listeners, the largest digital audio audience across paid and free tiers in North America, and deliver music, sports, talk, news, comedy, entertainment and podcasts. Pandora, a subsidiary of SiriusXM, is the largest ad-supported audio entertainment streaming service in the U.S. SiriusXM's subsidiaries Stitcher, Simplecast and AdsWizz make it a leader in podcast hosting, production, distribution, analytics and monetization. The Company’s advertising sales organization, which operates as SXM Media, leverages its scale, cross-platform sales organization and ad tech capabilities to deliver results for audio creators and advertisers. SiriusXM, through Sirius XM Canada Holdings, Inc., also offers satellite radio and audio entertainment in Canada. In addition to its audio entertainment businesses, SiriusXM offers connected vehicle services to automakers.
How you’ll make an impact:
Lead and manage a team focused on the technical architecture and development of CDN solutions and strategies. Build engineering support for origin, mid-tier and edge appliances that are tasked to deliver high availability, resiliency, and performance in order to satisfy the demands of SiriusXM. The responsibilities include development of operational processes, managing vendor relationships, guiding technical projects, crafting architectural solutions and engaging with content partners on best practices and implementations around content caching and CDN engagement. As a growing organization the position demands excellent technical skills and knowledge coupled with strong leadership, planning, management, and communication skills.
What you’ll do:
- Lead and grow a team of high-performing engineers
- Operate an origin layer capable of storing content in public and private clouds
- Operate a software layer in support of origin/mid/edge
- Operate a code base that is responsible for content replication across a cache hierarchy
- Manage and coordinate deployments against global capacity plans
- Write technical specifications and drive conversation in the content caching space, focused around streaming media.
- This role will manage a geographically dispersed team.
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent experience, in lieu of degree.
- 10 years leading platform or core engineering in a technical organization
- 7 years of managing teams, managing remote teams is a plus.
- Proven ability to recruit and retain world-class engineers.
- Excellent managerial skills and interpersonal skills; effectively communicate and collaborate with all areas of engineering.
- Strong understanding of engineering software processes, lifecycle methodology, configuration management, release management, and system verification and testing.
- Expert with CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Development), cloud native development, public and private cloud capabilities, and Infrastructure and configuration as code.
- Has successfully managed multiple CDN vendors at scale
- Interpersonal skills and ability to interact and work with staff at all levels.
- Technical experience in the following areas:
- Cloud - AWS preferred
- Experience with caching infrastructure and CDNs (akamai, limelight, level 3, fastly, etc.)
- Experience with content replication at scale
- Coding - Java, Scala, Javascript, etc.
- Must have legal right to work in the U.S.
The requirements and duties described above may be modified or waived by the Company in its sole discretion without notice.
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