ob Purpose :
- To lead Design, Development and Maintenance of Frontend Technology for Viacom18's flagship OTT Platform - VOOT, plan & innovate to deliver best-in class product features, ensuring market leadership and future readiness.
- Head the technology team for Viacom18's flagship OTT Platform - VOOT by enhancing and future proofing the technological infrastructure and capabilities to build a world class product.
Key Responsibilities :
Technological Readiness :
- Strengthen VOOT's technological capability
- Evaluate Frontend technology stacks and choose best in class relevant solutions for business
- Build internal capability for technological functions for future readiness
- Drive technical and technological efficiencies to save cost
Technological Innovation :
- Identify avenues for product enhancement
- Convert relevant ideas to POC (Proof of Concept)
- Act as the technical product owner and work with product management team to deliver features and manage releases and enhancement
- Deliver best-in-class product functionality by minimizing crash rate, reducing improving playback time performance and ensuring maximum device coverage
Collaboration and Partner Management :
- Evaluate and finalize new partners for product enhancement from technical perspective
- Developing technological road maps in collaboration with Product team & external technology partners
- Timely and quality delivery of product/features, including outsourced functionalities and services with no downtime
Resource management of external partners to deliver results
Team management
- Work with the HR partner to create a workforce plan
- Review performance on regular basis
- Ensure optimum levels of engagement through appropriate recognition channels
- Provide inputs on hiring and succession planning
- Identify training needs by using TNA method
Key Performance Indicators :
- Develop best in class product functionality
- Ensure technological readiness for product
- Increase in the number of active daily video viewers
- Application Store rating
- Maintaining a crash rate & Maintain playability above 90%
- No. of new & high quality features rolled out on the platform
Skills : Front End, Android, iOS

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