Manager, Technical Program Management

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s 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 what’s 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.

Data & Analytics
Manager, Technical Program Manager Job Description
 

Company Overview

Every great story has a new beginning. We're excited to announce that Discovery and WarnerMedia have combined to become Warner Bros. Discovery. WBD is a premier global media and entertainment company offering audiences the world’s most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, sports, news, streaming and gaming. We’re home to the world’s best storytellers, creating world-class products for consumers. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers and beyond, join us as we step into the next chapter. 
 

About WBD Streaming

Warner Bros. Discovery’s DTC organization sits at the intersection of tech, entertainment, and everyday utility. We are continuously leveraging new technology to build immersive and interactive viewing experiences. Our platform covers everything from search, catalog, and video transcoding, to personalization, global subscriptions, and more. We are committed to delivering quality user experiences, ranging from video streaming to applications across connected TV, mobile, web and consoles. As a pure tech organization, we are essential to Warner Bros. Discovery’s continued growth, building world-class products from the ground up for our iconic brands like HBO, Max, WB, CNN, Discovery Channel, CNN, Food Network, HGTV, Eurosport, MotorTrend, and many more.

About this role
Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD) is looking to hire a full-time Manager to join our Data Quality, Insights & Advocacy team. The team ensures the data across our Steaming and Digital Properties effectively meets Business requirements.  Our clients articulate how data contributes to business value, we partner across engineering, product and analytics to ensure the data is instrumented as expected, implement data observability and identify data quality issues. We also develop and build engineering solutions to verify, validate, and monitor data quality.   The Data Quality & Instrumentation Manager will drive the framework to ensure data instrumentation is effective, along with leading the team to formulate rules-based and pattern-based tests.  Ensuring code and pipelines are created to discover, implement, execute, and manage those tests. 

Responsibilities:

• Apply broad knowledge of technology options, technology platforms, design techniques and approaches across the Data Engineering ecosystem to build systems that meet quality needs.
• Build systems and datasets using software engineering best practices, data management fundamentals, data storage principles, recent advances in distributed systems, and operational excellence best practices.
• Analyze systems, define transformation requirements, design suitable data models and document the design/specifications.
• Demonstrate passion for quality, instrumentation and productivity by use of efficient development techniques, standards and guidelines.
• Drive the design, to build, execute, and maintain automated tests and/or manage deep data profiling runs to ensure data products and pipelines meet expectations.
• Work collaboratively with analysts, engineers, subject matter experts, and product managers to apply WBD’s analytical and quality methods to satisfy client needs.
• Participate in the growth of the DQIA practice by sharing knowledge and lessons learned, continually improving best practices, and contributing to methods that will systematically advance workforce capabilities.
• Effectively communicate through technical documentation, commented code, and interactions with stakeholders and adjacent teams.
• Contribute to building a vibrant workplace, where teams can thrive, and model the organization’s positive, supportive culture of respect and excellence.
• Be a People Leader within the DQIA Pillar such that in guiding team members, be challenging aligning with our guiding principles.
• Provide opportunities for growth in skillsets to DQIA teammates, be a support for continued enablement and retention of teammates.

Qualifications & Experience

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in the industry, along with 3+ years of experience in a supervisory role.
• Excellent written and verbal communications along with presentation skills. 
• Excellent project management and organizational skills. 
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, proactive, deadline-oriented
• Desire to drive change; demonstrated ability to be highly organized, and strong strategy and execution capabilities.
• Direct experience with any or all of the following: data quality, data management, data instrumentation, data advocacy, data governance, analytics, business intelligence, dashboards or reporting, data science, and/or data-intensive software development projects (including exposure to and familiarity with the technologies and tools)
• Demonstrated familiarity or experience with navigating data ecosystems (data warehouses, data lakes, structured and unstructured data, file types, BI systems) and familiarity with terms and concepts therein
• Ability to effectively coordinate and collaborate with data engineers, team members, and other internal subject matter experts to successfully leverage and continually improve WBD’s tools, processes, and resources
• Aptitude for becoming familiar with new tools and technologies
• Ability to work independently as well as in a remote, team environment; ability to work effectively and collaboratively within your team, participating in SCRUM/agile and other meetings
• Ability to communicate frequently and openly with leads and team members.
• Understanding and experience in a big data processing platform such as Databricks.
• Nice to have some experience in functional programming languages (including Python) as well as declarative programming languages (e.g. SQL, MYSQL).
• Experience in people management, leading team.

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.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

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 require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery’s total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $145,600.00 - $270,400.00 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 sick time and vacation.

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