Senior Staff Product Manager Tech - OTT mandatory (Media Supply Chain Team), Bangalore

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Senior Staff Product Manager Tech - OTT Mandatory (Media Supply Chain Team) Bangalore

About Warner Bros. Discovery:
Warner Bros. Discovery a premier global media and entertainment company offers audiences the worldsmost differentiated and complete portfolio of content brands and franchises across television filmstreaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Medias premium entertainment sports andnews assets with Warner Bros Discoverys leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sportsbusinesses. For more information please visit

Meet Our Team:
The Media Supply Chain team builds applications and services that power Warner Bros Discoveryscontent pipeline. Our applications cover the entire breadth of the media supply chain from ideation todistribution to over 2000 partners. We have a robust global community of thousands of internal Warner
Bros Discovery users who rely on our apps every day to get television and films produced on the air andonto Discovery HBO Max and beyond.

Roles & Responsibilities:
WBD is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Product Manager in agile product development practices to work on Media Supply Chain product offerings.
Product Vision and Strategy: Your role will primarily focus to develop product vision strategyroadmap planning and drive the OKRs commitments and ensuring alignment with businessgoals and customer needs.
o Own and drive multiple initiatives/ features assigned to complex and strategic productareas and effectively prioritize negotiate and perform expectation setting withstakeholders for conflicting and competing priorities.
o Translate ideas into written product pitch lean canvas a business use case. On-goingcollaboration with product lead and technology team to complete discovery of an initiative
o Derive strategy and planning basis metrics to set priorities and works with multiplestakeholders (Engineering Global Content Operators design product) to drive businessimpact and leverages data to drive the product vision and decisions.
Product Development & Lifecycle Management Overseeing the entire lifecycle from ideation tolaunch and continuous improvement by adopting iterative product development cycle.
o Gather quantitative and qualitative information from business users legacy platformslandscape and perform analysis to come up with opportunity differentiation and proposeproduct positioning to stakeholders.
o Basis the prioritization perform deep dive into existing tools and workflows to defineproduct requirement document defining the scope requirements and walkthrough thesame with stakeholders to achieve a sign off ensuring product North star strategy isaligned
UX & Design Principles - Ensuring products are intuitive and user-friendly.
Software Development: Robust understanding of software development and technology tocreate initiatives and to involve in planning of deliverables
Customer Insight: Gather insights from global content operators (GCO) to refine and enhance theproduct. Conduct regular GCO feedback sessions user testing and surveys to understand needsand pain points. Analyze data and metrics to measure product performance identify areas forimprovement and make data-driven decisions.
o Create KPIs for measurement and track the same and enable the information to beconsumed by stakeholders. Leverage analytics to track performance A/B testing optimizefeatures and enhance user experience and to make informed decisions.
Devise adoption and rollout Strategy & Product Launches Coordinating with business usersand other stakeholders to build consensus and ensure successful rollouts and driving adoption.
o Post adoption drive enhancements to bring in seamless experience and usability defineMVP of the product to a select audience to gather feedback before a full-scale iterativerollout.
Stakeholder Management: Engage with stakeholders at all levels of the organization to gatherfeedback manage expectations and provide regular updates on product progress andperformance.
Release Planning and Execution: Plan and coordinate product releases working closely withproduct owners engineering Global content operations and quality assurance teams to ensuresmooth deployments. Monitor post-release performance and gather user feedback tocontinuously improve the product.
AI & Automation- Optimizing workflows and infusion of AI in product and feature development
Collaboration with Cross-Functional Teams: Act as the primary point of contact betweenstakeholders Engineering and other cross-functional teams
You will lead by example and define the best practices will set high standards for the entireteam and for the rest of the organization.
You have a successful track record for ambitious projects across cross-functional teams.
Ensure that technical solutions are in line with established WBD Digital
strategy standards with respect to architecture security corporate governance codingstandards monitoring logging unit test and service enablement.
To make a great fit for this role you will bring passion curiosity collaboration and clarity to leadhypothesis-driven product discovery initiatives.

Skills & Competencies
Ability to define and drive product strategy and roadmap and align stakeholders
Ability to influence and collaborate in multisite cross-functional teams.
Ability to drive product in alignment with product strategy and north-stardefinition.
Ability to define and drive quarterly product roadmap and align stakeholders and call outother product dependencies in forums and align prioritization
Ability to identify gaps program risks and take pre-emptive actions to address them.
Passionate self-starter with a no-excuses can-do attitude and drive initiativesindependently
Demonstrated knowledge of Agile/Scrum; SAFe experience a plus but not required.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong technical writing & visualization skills
Strong execution and product delivery skills
Ability to work under tight deadlines.

What to Bring:
16-20 years of software development experience including 15 years of intensiveand extensive product discovery experience
Must have led / managed product development and worked with engineering teamsto drive software development.
Good Understanding on Product Life cycle Management.
Must have experience in defining and documenting system interactions high leveldata flows and component architecture.
Should be familiar with various Software Development Life Cycles
Must have strong product and project management skills and bring transparency into product development/roadmap delivery.
Domain knowledge in the Media and Entertainment space will be a plus.
Must have worked on globally distributed product development projects.

What We Offer:
A Great Place to work.
Equal opportunity employer
Fast track growth opportunitie

How We Get Things Done

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