Director, Linear Ad-Tech & Modernization Lead

Warner Bros. Discovery; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 334,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness program

Retirement savings plan

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery seeks a Director, Linear Systems to lead design, delivery, and modernization of its Linear advertising platforms within the Converged Advertising and Linear Systems organization.

The role drives scalable, reliable systems spanning planning, forecasting, order management, trafficking, and yield optimization, partnering with Sales, Product and Engineering to translate business needs into durable architectures.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of enterprise software engineering or platform delivery experience.
• At least 5 years in technical leadership roles.
• Strong understanding of linear advertising systems including planning, order management, trafficking, forecasting, yield, and reporting.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale, high-availability systems; cloud and API experience preferred.
• Proven track record modernizing legacy systems while supporting active business operations.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and technical direction of WBD’s Linear advertising systems.
• Ensure interoperability across linear planning, forecasting, trafficking, billing, and reporting platforms.
• Define system roadmaps balancing stability, performance and modernization.
• Lead teams delivering and operating business-critical linear ad-tech systems.
• Oversee integrations between linear platforms and converged digital, identity, data, and sales systems.
• Ensure high availability and predictable delivery outcomes.
• Drive evolution of legacy systems toward converged, cloud-enabled architectures.
• Implement observability, security, and cost-management standards.
• Partner with Sales, Product, Finance and Operations to align capabilities with revenue priorities.

Skills

Linear Ad-Tech

Architecture

Cloud APIs

Leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/Engineering

Tools

Cloud Platforms

Job description

Warner Bros. Discovery seeks a Director, Linear Systems to lead design, delivery, and modernization of its Linear advertising platforms within the Converged Advertising and Linear Systems organization.

The role drives scalable, reliable systems spanning planning, forecasting, order management, trafficking, and yield optimization, partnering with Sales, Product and Engineering to translate business needs into durable architectures.