Sr Manager, Business Operations - Emerging Products

Job Description

The Job

WarnerMedia seeks a Sr Manager, Business Operations for the Strategy and Ops department. CNN Emerging Products is building the trusted new digital experiences that put CNN's talent, expertise, and content programming directly in the hands of consumers. We have an ambitious product roadmap that emphasizes our unique ability to redefine the news with content, people, and technology.

The Emerging Products Business Operations team works across the organization to support effective decision-making, build our commercial capabilities, and scale operations to meet our product expansion strategy. We view the business as a complex system, and strive every day to better understand, optimize, and accelerate it.

As we develop new products and business models, we are looking for a business generalist with a strong technical background to bring a product, platform, and data mindset to our toughest business
problems.

The Daily

As the Senior Manager of Business Operations for Emerging Products, you will juggle a variety of
projects. You'll have opportunities to narrow your focus over time, but we value flexibility to:
• Help define and implement tools to enable our operation and commercialization of new CNN products through user lifecycle management, business intelligence, and opportunity discovery
• Develop a deep understanding of the key drivers of our business and how each product, function, and initiative contributes to them
• Partner with functional leaders to identify, analyze, and resolve the critical issues facing our business; collaborate with stakeholders to define action plans, and program manage the execution
• Partner with product development and go-to-market teams to identify success metrics and establish benchmarks that align with the business model
• Install cross-functional and cross-program operating model; finding creative, lightweight ways to improve collaboration, clarity, and decision-making

The Essentials

We believe that success in BizOps can come from many different paths and flavors, but here are some things we think will help for this role:
• 5+ years exposure to digital product development, testing, and/or go-to-market; able to quickly build credibility with technical teams, talk their language and be the connective tissue across technology, business, and media teams
• Natural problem-solver and strategic thinker; comfortable bringing structure to chaos, and quickly connecting implications up and downstream
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with an ability to synthesize complex information into simple recommendations, so-whats, and trade-offs
• Well organized, able to multitask, balance competing priorities, and manage complex stakeholder relationships
• Positive ''get stuff done'' approach in a highly collaborative environment; you naturally build partners and lift up the teams around you

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gx358z-18-223-32-230-42 in your application.