Technical Program Manager

Job Description

Overview

TPM III – Content Systems, Bangalore

About Discovery:

Discovery is the world's leading non-fiction media company with a reach of three billion viewers in 220 countries.

The Direct to Consumer (DTC) group is an Engineering company within the Discovery brand. DTC's engineering teams build applications for Web, Mobile, Connected TVs and Consoles/STBs covering features like Search, Playback, ML-driven Recommendation, Subscriptions, Payments etc. We are building a Global Video Streaming Platform to support a broad collection of Discovery's brands (Discovery, TLC, Motor Trend, Golf TV, Food Network, Eurosport, and many more) including the recently launched Discovery+. These applications are powered by a fleet of cloud-native microservices for Content Ingestion, Metadata processing, Video encoding & Ad Tech platform on AWS containers & serverless-compute. Within the DTC Content Systems team, we build tools and platforms that drive the content supply chain for Discovery's brands.
Our software tracks content as it moves from being an idea to becoming a finished show. Our applications reach thousands of monthly active users inside Discovery's business units and at production companies and distributors around the world.

Meet Our Team:

We are currently seeking a TPM III – Content Systems, to join the organization.

Responsibilities

Roles & Responsibilities:
• Scope & Complexity: You drive projects across more than one team, you have experience managing dependencies and stakeholders from external teams. You're able to take an ambiguous problem statement related to your subject-matter area to drive project deliverables over multiple iterations to achieve the right outcome.
• Decision Making: You are able to act as a representative for your area autonomously. Your decisions are right, far more often than not. You play a leadership role in your team: they look to you for advice on the technical and business issues.
• Execution: You get a lot done and you make others around you more productive. You have a companywide view of how your programs or projects impact the bottom line and you constantly think about how to improve our ability to deliver large projects.
• Operations: You apply processes and standards thoughtfully with bias towards automation, identifying the right amount of process and structure to achieve the correct outcome with the least overhead.
• Influence: You play a leadership role in your team: they look to you for advice on the product direction, technical designs, and operations.
• Communication: Your written and verbal communication skills are exemplary, concise and to the point, making you the initial point of contact for business and technical stakeholders. You are the point of contact for data related to your product, services, and features

What to Bring:
• 11- 15 yrs of relevant experience, comfortable and experienced in leading project/scrum teams in an agile environment for developing media asset management or content management software
• Experience driving technical feature planning and delivery on software features in partnership with software development teams.
• Understanding of media asset management, media supply chains, content and asset registries, media file formats, and video transcoding
• Ability to collaborate with technology resources on projects given solid understanding of current technologies and trends.
• Accountability of project scope and ensuring completion of projects while maintaining compliance with standard processes, quality, and schedule objectives.
• Estimating, scheduling, coordinating, assigning resources, and assisting and recommending business solutions/alternatives for software projects.
• Experience using data visualization frameworks (Tableau, PowerBI) to drive metrics and business decisions
• Knowledge of industry best practices for technical documentation.
• Ability to focus both strategically and tactically to achieve business goals, including the use of data to drive improvements.
• Experience using and customizing JIRA, Confluence, Smartsheet
• Nice to have: AWS, Java Spring Boot, Python, NodeJS, SQL

Qualifications

We Offer:
• A Great Place to work
• Equal opportunity employer
• Fast track growth opportunities
Our Values:

Discovery is governed by our eight guiding principles:

We Are... One Team, Creative Dreamers, Doers. Consumer Obsessed. Global, Quick & Agile, Purposeful and We Do the Right Thing

Discovery's Guiding Principles define the distinctive character, spirit and attitude of our organization. They inspire how we design our future and recruit talent.

Diversity & Inclusion:

Disclaimer: Discovery Communications, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Discovery is committed to being an employer of choice, not just a good place to work, but a great and inclusive place to work. To that end, we strive to recruit and maintain a workforce that meaningfully represents the diverse and culturally rich communities that we serve. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disabled status or, genetic information.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including but not limited to all local Fair Chance Ordinances.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-re1oy0-3-21-248-47-42 in your application.