About the Role
We are seeking a self-starter to own the product roadmap and end-to-end delivery of a new, greenfield order management integration platform. This platform will serve as the central exchange point for programmatic ordering, asset status, and delivery tracking between studio partners and Deluxe. You will lead the development of an extensible architecture of internal and external adapters to automatically transform complex partner inputs into standard objects that trigger internal production systems. This role reports to the VP, Product for Cinema, with a dotted-line relationship to the SVP, Product for Localization & Media Services. Initial focus will be on the core platform and first studio partner integration adaptors, with future expansion to existing QC and Data I/O product lines. The ideal candidate is technical, comfortable reading API documentation, using tools like Postman, reasoning about JSON payloads and schema design, and translating complex business workflows into user stories.
Responsibilities
- Lead the product roadmap, backlog, and release planning for the core order management API and event-driven architecture.
- Partner with internal and external POs and stakeholders to align on shared data contracts, cross-functional workflows, and synchronize delivery timelines.
- Define, write, and prioritize high-quality user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
- Translate intricate ordering workflows into concrete engineering requirements.
- Work directly with integration partners to gather requirements, validate designs, review schemas, and resolve technical blockers.
- Act as the primary product point of contact for external product teams.
- Review and contribute to JSON/XML schema design, endpoint definitions, and API contracts.
- Use Postman to validate behavior, reproduce issues, demo functionality, and maintain a basic integration test suite.
- Partner with internal product owners and engineering teams across cinema and localization to ensure normalized order data integrates with existing downstream systems.
- Track delivery progress, proactively manage cross-team dependencies, and report status transparently.
- Maintain comprehensive product documentation including integration guides, release notes, and partner-facing materials.
- Smoothly transition into owning product lines for QC and Data I/O as the integration platform matures.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of product ownership or product management experience in a fast-paced software organization.
- Strong knowledge of agile development practices (Scrum and/or Kanban) with a proven track record of grooming backlogs and managing competing priorities across multi-party stakeholders.
- Fluent in reading JSON and OpenAPI/Swagger specifications.
- Comfort with Postman, curl, or similar tools; able to construct, send, and interpret API requests independently.
- Working understanding of REST API design (HTTP semantics, auth patterns like OAuth/API keys) and event-driven architecture (pub/sub patterns, message schemas, delivery guarantees, dead-letter handling, idempotency).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to confidently lead technical discussions with engineers and external partners.
- Self-motivated, comfortable working with limited supervision, and skilled at driving clarity out of ambiguous, multi-party design conversations.
- Prior experience as a Product Owner for an external-facing API or developer-facing product.
- Experience in the Media & Entertainment industry (specifically localization, cinema mastering/distribution, asset management, or digital supply chain).
- Experience with schema design (JSON Schema, OpenAPI/Swagger, etc).
- Strong technical background with the ability to read and independently reason about application code logic.
- Familiarity with MovieLabs and/or SMPTE specifications.
- Experience using Claude and Claude Code (or similar AI coding agents) in day-to-day product and prototyping work.
Skills
- Product roadmap
- Backlog management
- Release planning
- User story creation
- Acceptance criteria definition
- API documentation
- Postman
- JSON payloads
- Schema design
- REST API design
- Event-driven architecture
- Agile development practices
- Scrum
- Kanban
- OpenAPI/Swagger specifications
- curl
- OAuth
- API keys
- Pub/sub patterns
- Message schemas
- Delivery guarantees
- Dead-letter handling
- Idempotency
- Technical communication
- Collaboration
- Problem-solving
- Documentation
- Media & Entertainment industry
- Localization
- Cinema mastering/distribution
- Asset management
- Digital supply chain
- MovieLabs specifications
- SMPTE specifications
- AI coding agents
Location
- Burbank, Los Angeles
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3-5 years
Salary/Compensations
- $120,000.00 - $150,000.00 annually
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Vacation leave
- Sick leave
- 401(k)
About the Company
- Burbank, California-based Deluxe Media Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Platinum Equity, is the leading provider of a broad range of entertainment industry services and technologies.
- We offer complete film and digital solutions for post-production, major studio and independent theatrical release, broadcast, home entertainment, archiving and asset management.
- Deluxe operates facilities in major film, video, and digital production markets around the world.
- Deluxe Cinema is responsible for the mastering and distribution of digital content to theaters on behalf of major cinema studio clients.
- These responsibilities are inclusive of a variety of content services including digital cinema mastering, 2D and 3D subtitling, format validation, and social media transcoding and fulfillment.
- The group also manages both electronic and physical distribution of digital cinema and non-digital cinema assets to theaters.
- The group is responsible for a variety of delivery support functions such asset tracking, archiving, delivery network management, digital cinema key management and distribution, and a 24/365 exhibitor support call center.
- The group’s goal is to advance technology within the theatrical content mastering and delivery space to stay ahead of our clients’ ever evolving distribution needs.
- With headquarters in Los Angeles and offices around the globe, the company employs over 3,500 of the most talented individuals, developers, and industry veterans worldwide.
- For more information, please visit www.bydeluxe.com.
- Deluxe is a global leader in media and entertainment services for film, video and online content.
- Since 1915, Deluxe has been the trusted partner for the world’s most successful Hollywood studios, independent film companies, TV networks, exhibitors, advertisers and others, offering best-in-class solutions in post-production, distribution, asset and workflow management, and cloud-based technologies.
- With headquarters in Los Angeles and offices around the globe, the company employs over 3,500 of the most talented individuals, developers, and industry veterans worldwide.
Equal Opportunity
- Deluxe is committed to inclusivity, fostering an environment where every employee feels comfortable bringing their full selves to work.
- It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees.
- Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against, on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.
- Deluxe will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable local, state, and federal law.
- Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws.
- A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Deluxe.
- Please inform the company's HR representative if you need assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application process.
