Staff Technical Program Manager

ZipRecruiter; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Warner Bros. Discovery as a Staff Technical Program Manager, where you'll leverage your program management skills to deliver high-quality software solutions. You'll collaborate with partners and internal teams to ensure successful integration and delivery of projects across EMEA/APAC regions. This hybrid role combines remote work with in-office collaboration, allowing you to thrive in a dynamic environment focused on innovation and excellence.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of Program Management experience in technology.
• Experience with multiple partners/vendors and leading projects.

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely delivery of high-quality software.
• Create project milestones and track delivery status.
• Engage with stakeholders and monitor operations.

Skills

Project Management

Agile Development

Technical Acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Smartsheet

Microsoft Suite

Job description

Job Description

This job is with Warner Bros. Discovery, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the + business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

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.

Warner Bros. has been entertaining audiences for more than 90 years through the world's most-loved characters and franchises. Warner Bros. employs people all over the world in a wide variety of disciplines. We're always on the lookout for energetic, creative people to join our team.

Your New Role...

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, and many more.

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 billing and entitlement services, along with app spaces 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.

Your Role Accountabilities...

• 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.

• 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.

Qualifications and Experience...

• 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.

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Hybrid Working - This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.

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 at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the 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 race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, parenthood, 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.

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