Senior Technical Program Manager

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.

Roles & Responsibilities:  

• Scope & Complexity:   You are managing multiple projects within MSC as a Program.  You implement activities that are scoped to the important components and processes of more than one team.  You work on projects that are important, complex and have cross-team dependencies.  

• Impact: You make an impact at a functional level and deliver features with complexity that can touch several areas.  You are considered proficient in at least one technical area.  You help drive clarity and define problems proactively.  You implement processes that generally impact a set of teams within the same area.  You are collaborating with the key leaders in the teams that directly interact with your immediate team, and you are familiar with their functional areas.  

• Decision Making: When you encounter problems, you are able to drive their resolution often, and when you cannot, you know who and how best to engage. When confronted with discordant views, you foster constructive dialogue and seek resolutions in a professional manner. 

• Problem Definition & Complexity:  You work on clearly- defined business problems without predefined technical solutions.  When you encounter problems, you can drive their resolution often, and when you cannot, you know who and how best to engage.  You can modify a project plan quickly when requirements change, or problems occur during execution.  

• Execution: You get a lot done. You communicate clearly, analyze technical designs, organize project timelines, secure commitments, manage risks, identify the critical path, spot edge cases, triage bugs, review metrics & data, and monitor launch operations. You switch effortlessly between these modes, adapting yourself to the needs of your workstreams. 

• Influence: You are a subject matter expert in your team domains.  Your sphere of influence has grown outside of your direct team, and you have built a strong cross-functional peer set.  You influence your team through data to guide roadmap priorities for features, software design changes and operational excellence improvements.  You have deep technical and business understanding of your team’s services.   

• Communication: You independently and effectively manage meetings across multiple business and technical teams, ensuring the right participants are in the room for productive discussions, and sending summary notes with action items afterwards.  You clearly and concisely communicate complex technical concepts and program updates to various stakeholders, including team members, executives, and external partners.  Your communication is timely, transparent, and  tailored to the needs of the audience.  You demonstrate the commitment to active listening and open dialogue that is essential to ensure that everyone is heard and understood.  

• Skills & Knowledge:  You are familiar with Media, Content Systems, and Media Supply Chain systems and technologies.  

What to Bring: 

• 8+ years of relevant experience, comfortable and experienced in leading project teams/scrum teams in an agile environment for developing media asset management or content management software. 

• Experience with Media Supply Chains and/or Content Systems.  

• Experience driving technical feature planning and delivery on software features in partnership with software development teams.  

• Ability to collaborate with technology resources on projects given a solid understanding of current technologies and trends. 

• Understanding of media asset management, media supply chains, content and asset registries, media file formats, and video transcoding.  

• Estimating, scheduling, coordinating, assigning resources, and assisting and recommending business solutions/alternatives for software projects. 

• Experience using data visualization frameworks (Tableau, PowerBI) to drive metrics and business decisions 

• Knowledge of industry best practices for technical documentation. 

• Ability to focus both strategically and tactically to achieve business goals, including the use of data to drive improvements. 

• Experience using and customizing JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet 

• ​Nice to have: AWS, Java Spring Boot, Python, NodeJS, SQL 

What We Offer: 

• A Great Place to work 

• Equal opportunity employer 

• Fast track growth opportunities 

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.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. 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 with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

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: $0.00 - $0.00 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.