ShowHeroes Group - Europe’s leading independent provider for digital content, technology, and advertising solutions. ShowHeroes helps publishers create the best content for their audience whilst generating advertising revenue within editorial environments. Advertisers reach new consumers in brand-safe environments with engaging formats and sustainable, reliable results.

ShowHeroes builds a global lineup of products to provide unparalleled, publisher-centric offerings that enable comprehensive impression-to-revenue generation.

ShowHeroes are now looking to expand our engineering efforts on our Video Player technology with a new dedicated team focused on enhancing video delivery, live streaming, and advanced advertising experiences.

Product Area

The Video Player Team is responsible for ShowHeroes' core video player technology, used across thousands of sites and billions of views per month. This technology enables seamless video content and advertisement delivery with a focus on performance, accessibility, and user experience. The team is expanding capabilities into new areas such as live streaming, enhanced advertising experiences, and improved analytics to create a better user experience and maximize value for publishers and advertisers.

The Role

As a Technical Program Manager at ShowHeroes Group, you’ll lead multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. Together with the product manager and engineering team leads, you will define project scopes, timelines, and deliverables, and manage project schedules. In this role, you'll leverage your business and technical expertise in video technologies while maintaining a strong focus on user-facing aspects, ensuring both short-term impact and long-term strategic growth.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on a mature, established product used at scale, with room for significant impact on future design and features.

This is a permanent full-time (Monday - Friday) role. The successful candidate will decide whether to work entirely remotely, from one of our 26 office locations, or any hybrid approach.

Tasks

• Drive technical discussions, and develop and present technical solution options to internal stakeholders regarding player improvements and feature development.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with UX designers and take the lead in shaping user experience definitions, ensuring a clear design vision that is not solely dependent on UX designers or stakeholder input.
• Create functional specifications, project/release plans, and roadmaps for the video player.
• Ensure that technical requirements, including dependencies, are clearly defined, understood, and executed by key stakeholders.
• Track and report on project KPIs, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Coordinate cross-functional efforts between engineering teams, product management, and external stakeholders.
• Identify and mitigate risks to ensure successful project completion and product launches.
• Help prioritize engineering efforts based on business value, technical complexity, and strategic goals.
• Support the implementation of performance improvements, accessibility enhancements, and user experience optimizations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in program/product management, software engineering, or a related field.
• Experience with video technologies, video players, streaming, and/or advertising technology.
• Understanding of advertising standards such as VPAID, VAST, Prebid.js, IMA, and similar technologies.
• Knowledge of web technologies including HTML5, JavaScript/TypeScript, and browser capabilities.
• Demonstrable experience with agile software development methodologies and productivity tools.
• Ability to comprehend and break down business requirements and relate them to the engineering planning and process.
• Independent user English understanding, B1-B2 and above.
• Experience in UX design, even hands-on, or a background in UX design.
• Experience with service workers, web workers, web assembly, and performance investigations.
• Familiarity with video streaming technologies (HLS, DASH) and live content delivery.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent communication and technical presentation skills.
• Experience in providing technical guidance and mentoring.
• Strong organizational, multitasking, and prioritization abilities with excellent attention to detail.
• Self-motivation to work independently and autonomously.

Benefits

• A technology and media company with numerous branches worldwide (e.g., Paris, New York, São Paulo, Milan, and Berlin).
• Flexible workplace and working hours.
• Friendly and inclusive culture.
• A place to grow personally and professionally with development initiatives.
• Enjoy one mental health day per year to focus on yourself.
• We offer a diverse, international place to work with equal opportunities for everyone.
• There is a lot to celebrate at team events, our summer parties, and more.
• Four impact days per year to positively influence our environment and society.