Portfolio Manager

Paramount Pictures; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 86,000 - 128,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Paramount Streaming, a division within Paramount Global, seeks a Portfolio Manager to drive integration from discovery through production. You will manage plans, dependencies, and risks, and translate complex workflows into actionable requirements and measurable outcomes.

You will liaise with Technical Directors, Engineering, Security, Legal, and stakeholders across the studio. Collaborate with IT, governance, and vendor teams to ensure launch readiness, and deliver concise updates to

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience as a technical program manager, program manager, or operations lead delivering software or workflow solutions.
• Experience documenting complex workflows and with functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience managing project plans, risks, dependencies, and delivery milestones.
• Ability to coordinate across Engineering, Product, IT, and governance teams.
• Experience leading structured meetings and requirements workshops.
• Excellent written communication and ability to work autonomously in ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain project plans, milestones, and delivery cadences across discovery, prototype, pilot, and production.
• Facilitate standups, planning sessions, stakeholder workshops, demos, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Track scope, schedules, resources, risks, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Surface blockers and tradeoffs clearly to management.
• Gather requirements by talking to stakeholders and reviewing workflows.
• Translate stakeholder needs into process maps, use cases, and acceptance criteria.
• Document exception scenarios, decisions, and definitions of done.
• Connect stakeholder goals to solution features and measurable success metrics.
• Coordinate dependencies involving APIs, data owners, IT, security, privacy, and legal.
• Maintain risk registers, mitigation plans, and readiness checklists.
• Drive launch readiness with documentation, telemetry, runbooks, training, and governance approvals.

Skills

Technical program management

Stakeholder communication

Requirements workshops

Risk management

Cross-functional coordination

Meeting facilitation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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General Business

Full-Time

On-Site

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Overview

As a Portfolio Manager within the Production Platform Integration Team, you0Bll help proceed workflow and integration solutions from discovery through prototype, pilot, and production.

You will manage plans, dependencies, and risks. You will also communicate with stakeholders. Additionally, you will translate complex workflows into clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and measurable outcomes. You0Bll partner with Technical Directors, Engineering, Research Platform and Evaluation teams, Security, Legal, Privacy, Brand, studio stakeholders, IT, and vendors.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain project plans, milestones, and delivery cadences across discovery, prototype, pilot, and production.

Facilitate standups, planning sessions, stakeholder workshops, demos, decision reviews, and retrospectives.

Track scope, schedules, resources, risks, and cross-functional dependencies.

Surface blockers and tradeoffs clearly to management.

Gather requirements by talking to stakeholders, holding workshops, and reviewing workflows.

Translate stakeholder needs into process maps, use cases, user stories, functional requirements, and acceptance criteria.

Document exception scenarios, decisions, and definitions of done.

Connect stakeholder goals to solution features and measurable success metrics.

Coordinate dependencies involving APIs, content systems, data owners, IT, identity and access, Security, Privacy, and Legal.

Maintain risk registers, mitigation plans, and pilot and production readiness checklists.

Drive launch readiness by ensuring documentation, telemetry, operational runbooks, training, support plans, and governance approvals are completed before release.

Produce concise, outcome-focused updates for stakeholders and management.

Track adoption, delivery health, and business outcomes following launch.

Basic Qualifications

3–5 years of experience as a technical program manager, program manager, or operations lead delivering software or workflow solutions.

Experience documenting complex workflows. Experience with functional requirements. Insight with user stories and acceptance criteria.

Experience managing project plans, risks, dependencies, and delivery milestones.

Ability to coordinate across Engineering, Product, IT, and governance teams.

Experience leading structured meetings.

Experience conducting requirements workshops.

Ability to communicate technical and operational information clearly to different audiences.

Robust written communication

Comfort working autonomously in ambiguous environments.

Bonus Skills (Nice-to-Haves )

Experience supporting AI-enabled products, including LLM workflows, search, retrieval, or automation.

Knowledge with APIs, system integrations, telemetry, identity and access, and deployment constraints.

Experience navigating Security, Privacy, Legal, or enterprise release approvals.

Experience in media, entertainment, production, or creative operations. Knowledge of complex workflows

Experience supporting pilot launches, change management, training, and adoption reporting.

Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, computer science, media, or a related field.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Hiring Salary Range: $86,000.00 - 128,000.00.

The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement.This position is bonus eligible.

What We Offer:

• Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages. Check out our full list of benefits here: https://www.paramount.com/careers/benefits
• Generous paid time off.
• An exciting and fulfilling opportunity to be part of one of Paramount’s most dynamic teams.
• Opportunities for both on-site and virtual engagement events.
• Unique opportunities to make meaningful connections and build a vibrant community, both inside and outside the workplace.
• Explore life at Paramount: https://www.paramount.com/careers/life-at-paramount

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