Every great story has a new beginning, and yours starts here.
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.
Job Description:
Every great story has a new beginning, and yours starts here.
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.
Warner Bros. has been entertaining audiences for more than 90 years through the world’s most-loved characters and franchises. Warner Bros. employs people all over the world in a wide variety of disciplines. We're always on the lookout for energetic, creative people to join our team.
Your New Role
The Partner Integrations Engineering team is responsible for building scalable and flexible solutions and frameworks to integrate with hundreds of external WBD partners in an easy, fast and cost-effective manner to enhance WBD customer reach and penetration globally. We work closely with internal Product, GPI and Commercial teams to understand partner needs, competitive ecosystem and build features and functionalities most desired by our partners and customers. These B2B integrations enable our partners to sell WBD services or bundle our services to their customers so that customers all over the world can enjoy our entertainment content. We are looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager to join our team.
Your Role Accountabilities
As the Staff Technical Program Manager, you will support Partner integration engineering teams and be a key influencer in the team’s strategy, scalability and standardization. You have a proven track record of developing and executing complex technical programs while regularly engaging stakeholders (both internal and external) to secure commitments, manage risks, identify the critical path and spot edge cases. You have experience being a team leader, have exemplary written and verbal communication skills and proactively report to both technical and non-technical stakeholders accurate program status, critical risks/ issues or escalations needed and proposed solutions. You have a proven track record of building and strengthening relationships with key stakeholder groups and external partners. The ideal candidate has experience working with multiple teams, good understanding of their business needs and technical ecosystem, and can influence teams to drive successful delivery of the program.
Create, document and enforce requirements, functionality and processes that ensure the scalability of technical integration platform. You must have strong program management and communication skills.
Thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities.
Contribute significantly to team planning.
Demonstrate good judgment, make trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs and share your learnings and knowledge with the team.
Qualifications and Experience
Minimum of 8+ years of Technical Program Management leadership with a demonstrated track record of leading and driving engineering teams towards successful delivery of projects and programs.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement through feedback and metrics.
Clear, concise, accurate communication (both verbal and written) with audiences of varying leadership levels, technical abilities and business contexts.
A strong data-driven mentality and prioritization framework, to ensure focus on the highest impact work.
Establish all operational metrics and support for the programs they lead.
Ability to work across multiple resources and orchestrate multiple activities with speed and agility.
Report the status of the overall program to the senior tech leadership team.
Responsible for creating dashboard/ reports to share key program updates for stakeholders and leadership.
Ability to develop short and long-term process improvement plans.
Business acumen sufficient to quickly absorb the intricacies of our departments and processes and recommend improvements that will help the company be more efficient and successful.
Ability to collaborate and work cross-functionally to create and maintain end-to-end program plans for partner integrations with the flexibility to quickly pivot when priorities change.
Highly skilled in working in a global environment, both with colleagues across multiple time zones and countries of cultural differences between regions and countries, always striving to deliver the best possible services for customers within the global product portfolio.
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…
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery’s total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $132,300.00 - $245,700.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.
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.
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