Full Time Job
Sr. Technical Program Manager
Warner Media
- Paid
- Full Time
- Senior (5-10 years) Experience
Job Description
What will I be doing?The Senior Technical Program Manager plays a key role within WarnerMedia's DTC Technology organization by making sure the product development efforts meet the highest standards from technical, business and product perspective. The Sr. TPM operates on Global level and has the ownership over a product or feature area of HBO Max, works together with cross functional teams and manages the initiatives by using technical skills, project management and product development best practices.
My Day-to-Day
• Manages product and feature portfolios with broad organizational and business impact.
• Owns full end-to-end lifecycle for cross-functional product development efforts.
• Manages and leads at scale, building and maintaining roadmap for their program, provides project leadership, anticipates bottlenecks, mitigates project risks, quantifies trade-off impacts to meet stretched deadlines with the possibly highest quality standards and product value delivered.
• Secures and manages resource, dependency, and budget commitments for their programs.
• Balances business and product needs with technical constraints by building deep subject matter expertise for their ownership area.
• Uses technical skills to understand how architecture and systems fit together, identify tech dependencies, improves engineering estimates and designs, simplify implementations, and contribute to resolve technical problems.
• Applies project management best-practices and methodologies to create and refine processes that make business and engineering teams more effective.
• Establishes durable mechanisms to address reoccurring problems or dependence on tribal knowledge.
• Works together with engineering, product, QA and design teams on breaking down the initiatives to user stories and development tasks to define and deliver the scope successfully.
• Presents program risks, highlights and technical solutions to business partners, peers, engineers, product managers and to senior executives with tailoring the message appropriately to the audience.
• Creates, follows-up and keeps project documents up to date, provides regular and ad-hoc project reports to relevant stakeholders.
• Manages multiple concurring development tasks and projects with different priorities and resource needs and make prioritization decisions on the team level.
Essentials for the role
• 8+ years of relevant work experience in technical program management or in similar role(s) with transferable skills both with project and product management aspects.
• At least 2 years of experience in video/streaming/media product development area.
• Experience in managing Data aggregator / error reporting system developments
• Bachelor's or Master's degree with a technical discipline, or equivalent technical knowledge gained by experience.
• Fluent oral and written English, exceptional communication skills.
• Strong project management skills and product development methodology knowledge including agile methodologies on scale.
• Experience with all aspects of the software development lifecycle on a global product from requirements gathering, development, testing, release management and familiarity with the common challenges within each phase to be able to proactively see and manage potential issues before they arise.
• Excellent judgement, problem solving, time management and prioritization skills.
• Highly motivated to lead projects and the product to success even against stretched goals.
• Proficient with business applications like JIRA, Confluence.
• Developer or Software Engineer experience is a plus.
• Experience in working teams through different time-zones is a plus.
Role Details
• Locations: Budapest
• Reports to: Director of Program Management
Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d9bmqm-34-230-68-214-42 in your application.