Director of Technical Program Management, Warner Bros Discovery
Office located in Chiswick Park, London
Entertainment company
Open for applications
Entertainment company
1001+ employees
Open for applications
Office located in Chiswick Park, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To take the world’s greatest possibilities and make them a reality - creating impact, inspiring imagination, and building connections.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has a proven track record of developing, 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 had experience working with multiple partners/ vendors and maintaining partner relationships while holding teams accountable and driving the overall delivery of the program
- They must have strong organizational skills, and the ability to create, document and enforce processes that ensure scalability of technical integration programs
- They must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities
- The ideal candidate will contribute significantly to team planning
- You show good judgment, making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs and share your learnings and knowledge with the team
- Minimum of 12+ years of Technical Program Management leadership with a demonstrated track record of leading and overseeing program management teams, as well as your own initiatives
- Strong people leadership experience, including talent selection, engagement, growth and retention
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
- 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 of the status of the overall program to the senior tech leadership team and above
- Consistently bring strong, data-driven business and technical judgment to decisions
- 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
- Responsible for creating dashboard/ reports to share key program updates for stakeholders and leadership
- Ability to develop short and long term process improvements plans
- Strong analytical and “big picture” capabilities in problem-solving
- Business acumen sufficient to:
- Quickly absorb the intricacies of our departments and processes
- 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
What the job involves
- Warner Bros. Discovery's DTC technology and product organization sits at the intersection of tech, entertainment, and everyday utility
- We are continuously leveraging new technology to build immersive and interactive viewing experiences. Our platform covers everything from search, catalog, and video transcoding, to personalization, global subscriptions, and more
- We are committed to delivering quality user experiences, ranging from video streaming to applications across connected TV, mobile, web and consoles
- As a pure tech organization, we are essential to Warner Bros. Discovery’s continued growth, building world-class products from the ground-up for our iconic brands like HBO Max, Discovery Channel, CNN, Food Network, HGTV, Eurosport, MotorTrend, and many more
- We are hiring a Director, Technical Program Management to join the Global Partner Integration team and support the EMEA/APAC affiliate expansion roadmap
- The Global Partner Integration Team, within the DTC Global Platform Team, owns and manages Go to Market partner integrations for WBD
- These integrations focus on back office systems, such as authentication, shared identity, billing and entitlement services, along with apps places on affiliate owned equipment (Set top boxes)
- These integrations enable our partners to sell or bundle our services to their customers, and allow those customers access throughout our experiences
- This team works with external affiliates and partners through the lifecycle of the integration, along with internal engineering, distribution, product and other stakeholder teams to efficiently launch these integrations
- Lead a team of Technical Program Managers who will lead cross-cutting technology initiatives with digital distribution partners, including new platform-specific features and launching our apps on new devices or operating systems
- Drive/ own the E2E program and status communications across multiple global engineering teams
- Work with cross-functional teams to define and schedule work to develop key features and maintain quality partner integrations
- Stay connected to digital partners by building solid relationships with key technical contacts and participating in regular syncs as a representative for the Direct to Consumer Technology organization
- Evaluate implementation options and drive technical conversations with partners and engineering teams
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) is an entertainment company formed from the 2022 merger of Warner Bros and Discovery. It is a leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing, and marketing of content, with Warner Bros alone boasting a huge library – more than 100,000 hours of programming – before the companies were joined. WBD’s portfolio includes Discovery Channel, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Discovery+, HBO Max, and franchises like “Batman” and “Harry Potter”.
Both of the company’s previous businesses have operated throughout the digitisation of the media space. David Zaslav, CEO of WBD, headed Discovery during its expansion into digital media, to make it a “content company” over a “cable company”. The recent focus for Warner Bros has been on next-gen distribution efforts, expanding the availability of its content across platforms and devices to reach the modern viewer. The new company has plans to migrate to one tech stack, which will require extensive retooling, as well as exploring cost-saving automation opportunities for its operations.
Since the merger, the new giant that is Warner Bros Discovery has had a shaky start, forcing the company to wind down operations and cut back on content, which included the very public scrapping of the “Batgirl” movie. However, it now seems the company may have been ahead of the curve, as a wider trend of cutbacks has been seen from peers in the space. This early move, combined with a hyper-focus on cash generation, seeks to establish WBD as an outperformer in an industry on the downturn.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Company values
- Act as One Team: Trust each other, succeed together, and growth together
- Create What's Next: Be curious, innovate, and focus on the future
- Empower Storytelling: Put creators, consumers and partners at the center, and share extraordinary stories
- Champion Inclusion: Empower others, have courage, and pursue equity
- Dream It & Own It: Advocate the mission, ove with speed, and drive results
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
David Zaslav
(CEO, not founder)Spent 17 years at NBCUniversal including as President of NBC Cable LLC and NBC Media LLC.
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