Technical Program Manager II

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.

Meet Our Team:

Meet Our Team: Software engineering teams in WBD’s Direct-to-consumer (DTC) division build and deliver applications and services powering the customer experience of products such as MAX, which run on connected TVs, set-top boxes, smartphones, tablets, consoles, PCs, and other streaming devices.

The Cloud FinOps team in the Operational Engineering (OpEng) organization plays a critical role in ensuring that our streaming media products and technology stack operate at peak efficiency, by developing a tools-and-process cost visibility and program pipeline across all our global infrastructure. Cloud cost visibility and financial diligence, championed and enabled by the FinOps team, are key to the success of our world-class streaming platform.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Scope & Complexity:You contribute to FinOps by delivering key analysis and reporting, and by working with teams to execute and evolve FinOps processes as the business grows. You drive resolution of complex problems by applying data-driven thinking and aligning to business goals.
• Decision Making:Youare able tolearn and apply FinOps principles and working processes to multiple situations, and when youencounter problems, you are able to drive their resolution more often than not.When you cannot, you know who and how best to engage. When confronted with discordant views, you foster constructive dialogue and seek resolutions in a professional manner.
• AgileExecution:You get a lot done. You communicate clearly,generate accurate analysis and reporting, keep to deadlines and manage delivery risks, triage issues, and you support teams seeking to use our FinOps tools. You switch effortlessly between these modes, adapting yourself to the needs of your workstreams.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Help teams that are contributing to our FinOps reporting and tooling, bring key expertstogether incollaborationwhen neededtoget vital context and inform on technical challenges. When needed, facilitate collaborationbetweenourteam and other teams and their stakeholders.
• Operations:You apply processes, standards and risk management thoughtfully, identifying the right amount of process and structure to achieve the correct outcome with the least overhead. You have a good understanding of industry standard tools and practical ways to apply them to problems you face.
• Communication:Your written and verbal communication skills are exemplary, concise and to the point, making you the initial point of contact for any stakeholders.You include data in your communications in a way that is accurate, easy to parse, and valuable.

Required Experiences and Skills:

• 2+ years of technical product/program management experience, or software engineering, systems engineering,data engineering.
• Experience delivering tech programs,products, or complex data analysisthrough multiple phases of the delivery life cycle.
• Experience working with cross-disciplinary and geographically distributedsoftware development teams.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights. 
• Able to navigate ambiguous and complex projectslargely independently.
• Able to projectcross-teaminfluence without authority to instill a culture of ownership, rigor, and accountability.  
• Identify andcommunicatepotential risks that could impact timelines, quality, or success.Contribute tothe development of contingency plans to mitigate risks and keepprogramson track.
• Ability to focus both strategically and tactically to achieve business goals, including the use of data to drive improvements. 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams andmanagers

Preferred Experiences and Skills:

• Knowledge of Agile or other product management methodologies, including tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Smart Sheets, Scrum,SAFe, etc.
• Familiarity withtechnologies in our stack:Kubernetes running on public clouds such asAWS;IACtools(Terraform);Observability(ELK);Developer platforms (GitHub); Messaging (Kafka),Analytics processing (Kinesis, Flink),Databases and more.
• Familiarity with financial and AWS usage data sets.
• Familiarity with security and compliance, digital media streaming platform,Software and Platform as a Serviceoffering,etc.

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, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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