Principal Technical Program Manager

Job Description

Overview

As television and media habits change, our mission remains true to the principles that founded Warner Bros. Discovery – every day we seek to ignite people's curiosity to engage, entertain and enlighten the world around them through amazing viewing experiences.

The Direct-to-Consumer Group is a technology company within the Warner Bros. Discovery family of brands. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT) and a suite of applications to support delivering compelling content from Discovery's library to our customers worldwide using modern container-based microservices operated on AWS. Our platform covers search, catalogue, video transcoding, personalization, global subscriptions, and much more. We build customer-focused user experiences ranging from classic lean-back viewing to interactive learning applications. We support our customers' devices, including connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles. We deliver content customers love through our various Warner Bros. Discovery-owned bands: HBO Max, Discovery+, Food Network, Golf TV, MotorTrend, Eurosport, and many more. This is a growing, global engineering group providing critical tier-1 infrastructure for delivering Warner Bros. Discovery's promise to our customers.

We are looking to hire a Principal Technical Program Manager to join our team. We focus on all aspects of streaming video: live and VOD pipelines, metadata transformation, server-side ad insertion, CDN integrations, playback services, video player backends, and AI/ML-based personalization. We are looking for an innovative leader who will guide teams in solving complex, challenging technical problems and delivering solutions to our customers.

The ideal candidate has a track record of having managed development of multiple high-performance, reliable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production. Your work and your approach to work are exemplary:

Responsibilities

The ideal candidate has a track record of having managed development of multiple high-performance, reliable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production.
• You make other team members around you more productive by providing clarity on the what, why, who, and when.
• You are a collaborative partner who is always thinking ahead, challenging assumptions, and anticipating issues before they happen. You help teams avoid surprises.
• You show good judgement, guiding the team in making trade-offs between immediate and long-term customer and business needs.
• You drive best practices and set standards for the teams. You provide mentoring to others.
• Active commitment to a diverse and inclusive work environment.
• You partner with product management and engineering leaders across the organisation to drive the most complex technical initiatives. This might include replatforming a brand, driving design and adoption of a common integration environment for all teams, or migrating from one technology stack to another. You work with engineering to establish user stories, milestones, and schedules. You bring the architectural and design pattern insights of an engineer to your work, combined with a project manager's understanding of team dynamics, dependencies, and scheduling constraints.
• You partner closely with architects and principal engineers to ensure large, complex, cross-team projects have sound technical foundations and the design and implementation across teams provides for scalable, reliable, efficient systems.
• You are a champion of engineering best practices, helping to establish a culture of disciplined engineering and helping to implement mechanisms to help the team be more effective.

Qualifications
• At least 10 years technical program management experience in a software product development environment, including direct experience in operational cloud computing applications.
• Proven experience as a technical leader. Demonstrated ability to earn trust, influence without authority, and successfully lead the development of complex applications.
• Proven experience as a people leader. This role will initially be an individual contributor position but we are looking to rapidly grow
• Strong sense of responsibility and ownership for the success of projects from inception to rollout and maintenance.
• Technical fluency with multi-tenant, cloud-based platform services.
• At least 4 previous years experience as a software development engineer or in a quality assurance role.
• Knowledge of video encoding and video delivery fundamentals.
• Successful working experience with globally dispersed teams to act as one company.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rjj962-3-19-56-45-42 in your application.