Olivier Milet

Principal Product Manager

Greater Rennes Metropolitan Area

About

Experience

  • Principal Product Manager at Synamedia
    Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

  • MediaKind (Rennes, Brittany, France)
    • Product Director | Advertising & Linear Rights
      Mar 2021 - Feb 2025 · 4 yrs

      ● Led product management across multiple locations, including France, UK and India ● successfully launched advertising and linear rights for major sports leagues, pay-TV operators and OTA customers in the US, Europe and LATAM, driving significant revenue impact. ● Focus on strategic customers, ecosystem partners

    • Product & Solution Manager | Advertising and Linear Rights
      Jul 2018 - Mar 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos

      Own and drive advertising and linear rights product management and strategy. New product addition to MediaKind portfolio (aka Prisma) from ideation to productization, covering the following key applications: ● Video inventory monetization enablement using SSAI (Server-Side Ad Insertion), HLS and DASH streaming, as well a linear ad insertion for traditional broadcast. ● Linear rights management - technology stack dealing with content substitution for use cases such as sport blackout, program substitution. Generally linked to programming constraints, contractual obligations (sport blackout) or even legal (EAS, sim-subs in Canada) ● Expertise in key standards: IAB VAST/VMAP, SCTE-130-3, CableLabs ESAM, SCTE-35, SCTE-224, campaign management, openRTB

  • Solution Architect - EMEA at Ericsson
    Nov 2015 - Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 9 mos

    (Ericsson acquired Envivio)

  • Envivio (Rennes Area, France)
    • Solution Architect - EMEA
      Jan 2015 - Nov 2015 · 11 mos

      ● Bid management: response, defense ● Solution sales engineering activities in EMEA covering broadcast and OTT streaming market opportunities ● In charge of the whole portfolio: IPTV (CBR streaming), satellite and terrestrial (statmux) OTT streaming (ABR encoding, HLS/DASH/HSS packaging with DRM), ad insertion (as an innovation track), nPVR/VOD workflows

    • Media personalization - advertising | Solution Strategy and Management
      Jan 2014 - Jan 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo

      ● Conducted a study on Internet advertising market and synergies with video pay-TV industry (Targeted versus GRP-based ad inventory selling, ad tech ecosystem, problem of data and viewability etc.) ● Proposed product & solution strategy aligned with Envivio portfolio, defined go-to-market and partnership strategy ● Product managed our first ad insertion technology based on SSAI and handled early pre-sales activities

    • Product Manager | OTT Streaming Solutions
      Jan 2011 - Jan 2014 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      ● Managing Envivio multiscreen video components for live and live to file applications ● Focus and expertise around solution such as nPVR, catch-up TV, time-shifted applications ● Expertise in live to file and multiscreen ad insertion workflows ● Technology partners management (CDN, CAS/DRM) ● Business: strategic accounts follow-up for advanced solutions targetting tier-1 MSOs and broadcasters

  • ENENSYS Technologies (3 yrs 7 mos)
    • Strategic Alliances Manager
      May 2008 - Nov 2008 · 7 mos

      Partnerships management: ● Global SIs (System Integrators) and local resellers - Promotion of Enensys portfolio (DVB equipments, IP distribution and network probes solutions) ● Ecosystem partners

    • Head-End Product Line Manager
      Dec 2006 - May 2008 · 1 yr 6 mos

      ● Head-end products line management for multi-standards digital TV broadcast (DVB-T, DVB-H, DTMB) ● Positionning of Enensys as market leader for SFN broadcast (co-author of one patente around SFN broadcast optimization) - several deployments with Tier-1 broadcast operators in EMEA. ● Channels resellers management with workshops and trainings.

    • Technical Support & Pre-Sales Engineer
      Oct 2005 - Jan 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos

      ● Bids management (RFI / RFP) ● Advanced support (all products): modulators, MPEG2-TS tests & monitoring equipments, ASI/IP gateways. ● Management of workshops to global channels resellers - roadshows to key accounts (worldwide).