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.

Senior Technical Program Manager - Hyderabad, India.

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery's leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com.

Meet our team:

The Data & Analytics organization is at the forefront of developing and maintaining frameworks, tools, and data products vital to WBD, including flagship streaming product Max and non-streaming products such as Films Group, Sports, News and overall WBD eco-system.  Our mission is to foster unified analytics and drive data-driven use cases by leveraging a robust multi-tenant platform and semantic layer. We are committed to delivering innovative solutions that empower teams across the company to catalyze subscriber growth, amplify engagement, and execute timely, informed decisions, ensuring our continued success in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

Roles & Responsibilities:

The ideal candidate is technical, has a deep understanding of the data platform and analytics space and a proven track record of executing complex technical programs. The candidate organizes project timelines, secures commitments, manages risks, identifies the critical path and spots edge cases. They are a strong self-starter with the ability to oversee multiple complex programs and can drill into business data and research results to identify clear direction and focus for their tasks, projects and programs. They 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. They must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities.

This role will support India/US territories. The ideal candidate has had experience working with global teams, maintaining partner relationships while successfully driving delivery. The ideal candidate has had experience in project management and agile development methodologies with a proven track record of delivering results. They show good judgement making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs and share their learnings and knowledge with the team. 

What to Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree with 6+ years of experience in technical project management. 

• Lead planning, execution and delivery of projects across multiple teams (product and technology) around the world

• Communicate clearly, analyze technical designs, organize project timelines, secure commitments, manage risks, identify the critical path, spot edge cases, triage bugs, review metrics and data, and monitor launch operations for large software projects. 

• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, and make trade-offs.

• You have a deep understanding of data platform, ETL pipeline, and analytics.

• You have a solid understanding of software development methods like CI/CD, Agile Scrum, Waterfall, etc.

• You have shipped multiple high impact projects and used data to assess their impact.

• You have experience 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 can spot what requirements are missing from a request and ask the right questions to drive clarity. When necessary, you negotiate trade-offs within a project to speed up execution of the most important features / deliverables first.

• You MUST have experience with JIRA, Confluence, and Microsoft Suite of products.

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 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, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

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