Manager of Technical Program Manager, Warner Bros Discovery
Content Distribution & Partner Onboarding
$145.6-270.4k
Office located in Hudson Yards, NY or Culver City. CA
Entertainment company
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Entertainment company
1001+ employees
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$145.6-270.4k
Office located in Hudson Yards, NY or Culver City. CA
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
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in a TPM, or comparable engineering role
- Considerable experience leading complex, multi-disciplinary integrations involving multiple internal and external teams
- Exceptional customer relationship and account management skills, including the ability to influence key technology decisions and robustly defend WBD’s interests
- Champion of Agile methodologies, using metrics to drive productivity
- Comprehensive understanding of the current global VOD ecosystem, industry standards and best practice, including :
- Movielabs Digital Distribution Framework
- Cablelabs VOD Content Specification
- Video codecs, wrappers and profiles
- Audio codecs, wrappers and profiles
- Common Subtitle and Caption formats e.g. SCC, WebVTT and IMSC-Rosetta
- Content delivery methods inc AWS S3 push, Aspera Cloud and SFTP
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across time zones and with international teams from a variety of countries and backgrounds
- Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and effectively manage multiple priorities
- Proven communication skills showcased through effective verbal, written, and interpersonal abilities
What the job involves
- Working in the Content Distribution Engineering (CDE) team, the Manager, Technical Program Manager role acts as the interface between business, product, and engineering, overseeing technical relationships with WBD’s internal and external content ingest partners for SVOD, AVOD, TVOD, FAST Channels and other associated content distributions
- You will lead a team of TPMs managing the onboarding of new content ingest partners to the WBD global supply chain
- The team will provide the business-critical interface between distribution partners and our internal engineering, operations, and product teams
- You will define the strategy that the team work to as they are onboarding new industry partners into the WBD Media Supply Chain ecosystem
- This role requires close collaboration with teams and partners distributed across the globe so being an excellent communicator with the ability to influence key decisions in meetings, documentation and all the communication mediums is vital to your success in this role
- In this role, you will take the lead in defining the strategy for integrations with key distribution partners, consulting with leadership where necessary
- You will lead and mentor the TPMs in your organization to deliver the integrations needed to support WBD’s business aims
- You are the escalation point for business and technical stakeholders for all matters relating to the full portfolio of partners your team has responsibility for
- You will work with internal legal, sales, and business development teams in support of securing new distribution deals, ensuring that WBD’s technology vision is a key part of those discussions
- You will define policies and processes related to partner onboardings and integrations, supplying a robust framework for the team to operate within
- You will collaborate with our internal and external partners to ensure that our technical integrations preserve the best possible quality of content and quality of experience to the users of their platforms and services
- You will work with our distribution partners to ensure that WBD’s interests are suitably prioritized on their development roadmap
- You will collaborate with internal product and engineering leads to define the strategic direction for WBD’s non-linear supply chains to meet the future needs of the business
- You act autonomously as a representative for the MSC organization. Your judgment is trusted, and your decisions are proven correct most of the time
- Your written and verbal communication skills are exemplary, concise, and to the point
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 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
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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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