enterprise product leader · content systems & platforms
los angeles, ca310-293-4052paul.denni@gmail.comlinkedin.com/in/pauldennipauldenni.com
Product leader with 17 years in technical product and program management, including nine years owning enterprise content and publishing platforms serving internal business teams at scale. Builds product organizations and the operating models that hold them together. Translates business strategy into sequenced, measurable roadmaps and develops product managers into leaders.
Internal platform ownership · systems convergence & rationalization · roadmap governance & quarterly planning · product lifecycle management including retirement · migration planning
Cross-team dependency sequencing · technical debt & sustainability trade-offs · agile delivery (Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe)
Building product organizations from zero · managing managers · executive stakeholder influence · LLM tooling for product leadership · integration of ML personalization services
formerly ViacomCBS, CBS All Access · global streaming service. Enterprise content management platform and OTT front-end applications for Paramount+ and Pluto TV.
Product strategy for Paramount's enterprise content management platform — the system content operations, merchandising, editorial and marketing publish through across Paramount+ and Pluto TV — and the product organization that runs it, led through product leads.
Built the operating model for the platform. How work gets prioritized, and how the product managers owning each area are developed into independent owners of it.
Established the CMS product function — the team itself, and the division of the platform into distinct areas with dedicated ownership.
Product ownership for Paramount+ launch and expansion features across domestic and international markets, through the period of the service's fastest subscriber growth.
Individual contributor across the CMS and the CBS All Access applications: the first editorial self-serve tooling, content operations, and consumer-facing navigation.
Certified SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM) · Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) · Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) · Certified SAFe® Practitioner
Jira, Confluence, Asana, Smartsheet, Airtable, Trello · Claude Code, Figma Make · Postman, Swagger, Charles Proxy, HTML/CSS, XML · Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, Conviva · Figma, Miro, LucidSpark, Lucidchart
University of California, Santa Barbara — BA, Art Studio