Editorial Operations Lead — Scale Multiplatform Content

Warner Bros. Discovery; Washington (Washington County); On-site; USD 70,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness program

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plan

Paid holidays

Sick time

Vacation

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking an Editorial Operations Manager to help create and optimize the systems behind editorial production across social media, newsletters, audio, video, and interactive experiences.

You'll bridge content strategy and project management, partnering with writers, editors and producers to build scalable workflows and clear processes that move content from pitch to publish, while measuring performance to guide decisions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in content operations, editorial project management or a related role within a complex media or digital organization.
• Ability to build and implement workflows, processes and operational frameworks that improve efficiency and scale across cross-functional teams.
• Strong strategic thinking skills: able to synthesize complex information, identify patterns and translate them into clear recommendations and actionable plans.
• Fluency in content production across multiple formats and platforms, with a working understanding of how editorial, product, technology and distribution teams interact.
• High comfort with data and operational metrics, with the ability to track performance, surface insights, and use findings to drive continuous improvement.
• Experience with project management tools, editorial planning systems, or workflow software.
• A natural problem-solver who stays calm under pressure and brings both rigor and pragmatism to ambiguous, fast-moving situations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with editorial, product, and technology teams to design and maintain efficient content workflows across a fast-moving, multiplatform environment.
• Translate high-level content strategy into clear, actionable processes that the editorial team can adopt, repeat and scale.
• Identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in production pipelines and lead efforts to resolve them.
• Build and maintain documentation, playbooks and operational frameworks that create consistency and reduce friction across the content ecosystem.
• Track and synthesize operational metrics, surfacing insights that help editorial and business leaders make smarter, faster decisions about content production and resource allocation.
• Serve as a key point of contact during editorial planning cycles, ensuring that capacity, timelines, and cross-functional dependencies are clearly mapped and communicated before production begins.

Skills

Content operations

Editorial project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Data-driven

Workflow design

Problem-solving under pressure

Tools

Project management tools

Editorial planning systems

Workflow software

Job description

Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking an Editorial Operations Manager to help create and optimize the systems behind editorial production across social media, newsletters, audio, video, and interactive experiences.

You'll bridge content strategy and project management, partnering with writers, editors and producers to build scalable workflows and clear processes that move content from pitch to publish, while measuring performance to guide decisions.