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Title : Head - Frontend Technology

Designation : Senior Director

Reports to : Head - Technology & Product

Department : Digital Ventures

Job Purpose :

- To lead Design, Development and Maintance 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.

Key Accountabilities:

Technological Readiness:

- Strengthen VOOT’s technological capabilityEvaluate Frontend technology stacks and choose best in class relevant solutions for businessBuild internal capability for technological functions for future readinessDrive 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 across multiple platforms ranging from mobile phones to web to connected devices

- Deliver best-in-class product functionality by minimizing crash rate, improving playback performance and ensuring maximum device coverage

Collaboration and Partner Management:

- Evaluate and finalize new partners for product enhancement from technical perspective

- Develop 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 and define /implement career progression plan

- 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 95%

- No. of new & high quality features rolled out on the platform

Qualifications & Experience :

Skills & Competencies :

- B.Tech / B.E./ MS in Computer Science, 12+ years of work experience of leading Frontend technology team for web-scale OTT /Consumer Internet Product

- Experience in OTT streaming technologies/protocolsSignificant Experience in building a large high-performance teamMust have a strong hands-on coding experience and solid technical skillsReasonable understanding and experience in full stack development with focus on front-end technologies across multiple devices and OS

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