Staff, Technical Program Management - Data/ AI
Staff, Technical Program Management - Data/ AI
Employer Active
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Share
Job Alert
You will be updated with latest job alerts via email
Not Disclosed
Salary Not Disclosed
1 Vacancy
Job Description
Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery the stuff dreams are made of.
Who We Are
When we say the stuff dreams are made of were not just referring to the world of wizards dragons and superheroes or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBDs vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands are the storytellers bringing our characters to life the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating whats next
From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers across the globe WBD offers career defining opportunities thoughtfully curated benefits and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported here you are celebrated here you can thrive.
Your New Role:
Passionate about cutting edge technologies and working at a global scale eager to work with teams responsible for shipping features that have a huge customer reach and can impact millions of users We are looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager to join our Warner Bros. Discovery Enterprise Data & AI Solutions team. You will help drive end-to-end data solutions. You will partner with our engineering teams in breaking down complex projects into specific goals and tasks while ensuring the long-term vision is delivered. You are action oriented and prioritize delivering roadmap items proactively identify gaps as well as opportunities in engineering and operations excellence.
The Enterprise Data & AI Solutions teams cover a wide breadth of services including data integrations engineering governance reporting and platforms. The work directly supports core data services throughout the organization used by executive consumers data science and machine learning projects financial and strategic planning and master data management. This work provides high visibility opportunities to work across functions with leadership and with external partners.
Your Role Accountabilities:
Communication & Influence
Lead by Influence: Inspire and guide cross-functional teams without direct authority by establishing trust and clarity of purpose.
Vision Execution: Set a clear vision and drive execution through collaboration alignment and accountability.
Effective Communication: Deliver clear concise written and verbal communication tailored to technical and non-technical audiences.
Business Impact Articulation: Explain how technical decisions and product goals align with broader business and divisional objectives.
Cross-Functional Alignment: Facilitate alignment across teams and stakeholders to ensure shared understanding and commitment.
Program Execution & Delivery
Project Lifecycle Management: Create and drive direction and strategy across all phases of engineering and project management in accordance with central PMO standards.
Documentation & Maintenance: Document articulate and maintain technical and business requirements throughout the program lifecycle.
Requirements Gathering: Discover and articulate business and technical requirements and dependencies including those involving external teams and third-party partners.
Feature Planning: Translate stakeholder needs into actionable features and ensure alignment with business goals.
Implementation Readiness: Work with development teams to uncover implementation details and proactively identify roadblocks.
Engineering Partnership: Work closely with development teams to uncover implementation details and proactively identify roadblocks.
Data Strategy & Systems Understanding
Understand Data Flow: Analyze and map how data moves across enterprise systems to ensure consistency quality and accessibility.
Drive Data Quality: Organize and lead initiatives that deliver high-quality trustworthy data to internal and external stakeholders.
Prioritization & Decision-Making
Triage Initiatives: Evaluate and prioritize multiple concurrent initiatives to focus on the most impactful problems.
Strategic Judgment: Make informed decisions about what to tackle and when balancing short-term needs with long-term goals.
Problem Solving & Innovation
Problem Framing: Create clear problem statements and use data to develop proposals and solutions.
Drive Consensus: Align cross-functional stakeholders around solutions and ensure smooth execution.
Qualifications & Experiences:
8 years of experience as a Program Manager working across multiple technical projects.
Data/analytics experience youre a data person who can understand and document how data created in systems makes its way across enterprise data landscape.
Ability to function effectively and consistently when faced with frequently changing and sometimes ambiguous goals.
Ability to drive definition of project scope develop detailed project plans and facilitate the collection of engineering operational and business requirements.
Excellent interpersonal skills including negotiation and problem resolution in a cross-functional team.
Strong understanding and experience with development methodologies including waterfall and agile.
Ability to learn project management tools in order to continuously improve effectiveness.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to translate complex technical solutions and features into intuitive business concepts.
Strong business acumen that balances strategic initiatives and engineering needs.
Not Required but preferred experience:
Public speaking and presentation skills.
Strong technical background with an emphasis on data engineering.
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 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.
Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit regardless of sex gender identity ethnicity union status age sexual orientation religion or belief marital status pregnancy parenthood disability or any other category protected by law.If youre a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.
Employment Type
Full-Time
