Product Manager

Job Description

About Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD)

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. is the global leader in scripted and real life entertainment, sports, and news. We serve passionate fans with content that inspires, informs, and entertains, providing leadership across deeply loved and trusted brands, such as HBO, CNN, Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel. Available in 220 countries and territories and 50 languages, WBD reaches viewers on all screens and services, from free-to-air and paid-TV channels, to digital streaming services, to social and mobile-first content. WBD delivers over 8,000 hours of original programming each year.

About WBD Sports

WBD Sports represents WBD's portfolio of sports brands, channels and platforms. It collectively reaches 130 million people every month, engaging fans and broad audiences in more than 200 markets and in over 20 languages across all platforms where consumers are spending time -free-to-air TV, pay-TV, streaming, online and social.

WBD Sports includes the much-loved consumer brands Eurosport, Global Cycling Network (GCN), Global Mountain Bike Network (GMBN) and Golf Digest as well sports programming and content on discovery+, HBO Max and Discovery's free-to-air TV networks.

WBD's Direct To Consumer (DTC) group is the global leader in providing innovative and immersive digital products and content for iconic brands. We are working at the crossroads of technology, entertainment, and everyday utility. As content creators across the digital ecosystem, we leverage our technology to create immersive viewing and interactive experiences. We tell engaging stories to millions of viewers across the Internet every day and bring new interactive experiences to life to entertain and improve the lives of our customers.

Position Summary

The Warner Bros. Discovery Global Product & Design team is looking for a Product Manager II, WBD Sports Product to support the existing product team and business with managing the execution of the digital products and platforms for WBD Sports, including Warner Bros. Discovery's new global video streaming service.

You will be help carry features through the full product lifecycle – ideation to production, supplementing with product requirement documents, market research, user stories, user testing, defining OKRs and KPIs, wireframes, flow diagrams, testing, risk analysis and other supporting information to make product iterations successful. You will learn what it means to be at the intersection between the business, customers and technology.

This role reports into the Senior Director, Product Management for the WBD Sports Product team and will work closely with product management, design, engineering, editorial, advertising and marketing teams to help define and deliver features and enhancements that will drive engagement and revenue for the suite of digital sports products.

Responsibilities

In addition to the responsibilities noted above:
• Help manage the product roadmap, getting internal consensus and incorporating feedback from a range of sources to ensure the right features are delivered at the right time.
• Ensure complex business needs are perfectly documented and reflected in product roadmaps and in the resulting products.
• Provide additional support for the requirements documentation process into JIRA and Confluence
• Research the market for inspiration and motivation to create competitive and compelling experiences using data from various sources.
• Maintain and improve the use of data for user experiences and features across the product and infrastructure.
• Help manage the digital platform lifecycles including user acceptance testing (UAT) processes, creating and communicating release notes, managing distribution of internal app testing, app update releases, app store images & descriptions, and app store dashboards overall.
• Contribute to the delivery of high-quality products as perceived by the end user, measured against satisfaction metrics.
• Work successfully within a milestone-driven environment, utilizing standardized product development processes.
• Contribute to on-time, on-budget delivery of products and features.
• Build healthy, trusting relationships and contribute to a culture of respect by giving feedback respectfully, exchanging ideas respectfully, and receiving feedback humbly.

Requirements
• Minimum 2-5 years of proven product management experience in a media technology company in the video streaming space, preferably in sports.
• Detailed knowledge of Agile development practices and a demonstrated ability to deliver high-impact features at scale.
• Experience of working in a start-up environment and across all stages of the product life-cycle.
• Experience of using analytical tools to monitor success of features and influence changes to the product.
• Preferred experience in dealing with building products, features and functionality against various sources of data.
• Have knowhow of User Experience and Usability and be able to apply it to the product.
• A passion for Sport and/or a good understanding of the media and sport industries.
• Experience working on streaming video products a plus.
• Experience working on products that span across web, mobile and TV/OTT/Connected Device platforms a plus.
• Excellent written and oral communication. Able to write and present to non-digitally-savvy audiences.
• Curiosity and a willingness to learn.

Want to Learn More?

Learn more about our company culture and life at Discovery, Inc. at https://wbd.com/careers/

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.

The Legal Bits…
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. $85,400.00 - $158,600.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

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.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@warnermedia.com.

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