Staff Technical Program Manager, Warner Bros Discovery
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Office located in Chiswick, London
Entertainment company
Posted today
Entertainment company
1001+ employees
Posted today
More information about location
Office located in Chiswick, 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 is a strong self-starter and therefore can drill into business data and research results to identify clear direction and focus for their tasks, projects and programs
- You continue to move forward in the face of ambiguity and imperfect knowledge
- The ideal candidate has had experience working with multiple partners/ vendors and maintaining partner relationships
- You have demonstrated experience leading small to medium projects
- You have experience in project management and agile development methodologies with a proven track record of delivering results
- Bachelor’s degree with 7-10 years of Program Management experience in the technology realm
- Lead planning, execution and delivery of highly strategic & complex programs with many dependencies across multiple teams (product and technology) around the world
- Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs to speed execution of the most important projects first
- You can begin planning and executing parts of an ambiguous program even as you drive clarification of requirements
- You have a deep understanding of software development methods like CI/CD, Agile Scrum, Waterfall, etc
- You have shipped multiple highly strategic & complex projects with cross-team dependencies and used data to assess their impact
- You have experience taking full ownership with all phases of project delivery from concept to production, including defining features and deliverables, securing team commitments, establishing a project charter, handling all communication and reporting, overseeing development & deployment, and performing retrospective assessment using data and key performance indicators
- You have demonstrated the ability to make decisions for more than one project or program area showing that your judgment is fungible, and you must be able to handle more than one project simultaneously and successfully
- You have repeatedly demonstrated the ability to understand organizational and corporate goals and ensured that your projects delivered what was required to hit these goals
- You MUST have experience with JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet and Microsoft Suite of products
- Travel may be required both international and domestic averaging about 5%
- Must have the legal right to work in the country hired
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Staff Technical Program Manager (TPM) to join our team, supporting the EMEA/APAC regions
- 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 paces 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
- As a TPM, your primary responsibility is to ensure the timely delivery of well-designed, well-scoped, high-quality software that meets and exceeds customer expectations
- You do this by combining the skillset of a program manager with the technical acumen and experience of an engineer, architect or technical product owner
- The ideal candidate creates project milestones, secures commitments, spots edge cases, identifies and monitors risks, cross-team dependencies, and scope creep
- You track and report on delivery status against planned milestones and dates
- You regularly engage with internal and external stakeholders, review metrics & data and monitor operations within the integration program
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
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
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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