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Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.
Who We Are…
When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…
From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.
Your New Role :
Passionate about cutting edge technologies and working at a global scale? Eager to work with teams responsible for shipping features that have a huge customer reach and can impact millions of users? We are looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to join our Warner Bros. Discovery Data and Shared Services team. You will help drive end-to-end data solutions. You will partner with our engineering teams in breaking down complex projects into specific goals and tasks, while ensuring the long-term vision is delivered. You are action oriented and prioritize delivering roadmap items, proactively identify gaps, as well as opportunities in engineering and operations excellence.
The Data and Shared Services teams cover a wide breadth of services including data integrations, engineering, governance, reporting, and platforms. The work directly supports core data services throughout the organization used by executive consumers, data science and machine learning projects, financial and strategic planning, and master data management. This work provides high visibility opportunities to work across functions, with leadership, and with external partners.
Your Role Accountabilities:
Understand the flow of data across enterprise systems.
Organize and drive requirements and features that deliver high quality data to our stakeholders.
Able to triage multiple initiatives to make a judgment to tackle the right problems at the right time.
Passionate about leading by influence. You have a demonstrated ability to establish a vision and to execute on it.
Practice excellent written and verbal communication skills, including clear articulation of business impact and technical constraints tailored to the audience.
Create and drive team direction and strategy at all phases of engineering and project management.
Document, articulate and maintain your program’s technical and business requirements.
Guide and organize development teams to deliver platform capabilities that are in line with roadmap and program / organizational goals / KPIs.
Work with development teams to tease out implementation details and identify roadblocks before they occur.
Communicate how product-level goals fit into, and are influenced by, larger divisional goals, and how the team's work impacts the success or failure of the division.
Discover and articulate technical requirements and dependencies on external development teams and third-party partners.
Create problem statements and move from those to appropriate and data driven proposals, recommendations, and solutions; then drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders.
Qualifications & Experiences:
5+ years of experience as a Program Manager working across multiple technical projects.
Data/analytics experience – you’re a data person who can understand and document how data created in Production systems makes its way across systems.
Ability to function effectively and consistently when faced with frequently changing and sometimes ambiguous goals.
Ability to drive definition of project scope, develop detailed project plans and facilitate the collection of engineering, operational and business requirements.
Excellent interpersonal skills, including negotiation and problem resolution in a cross-functional team.
Strong understanding and experience with development methodologies, including waterfall and agile.
Ability to learn new development tools and productivity tools in order to continuously improve effectiveness.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to translate complex technical solutions and features into intuitive business concepts.
Strong business acumen that balances strategic initiatives and engineering needs.
Not Required but preferred experience:
Public speaking and presentation skills.
Strong technical background with an emphasis on data engineering.
How We Get Things Done…
This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.
The Legal Bits…
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
If you’re a qualified candidate and you require adjustments or accommodations to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please contact us at [email protected].