Job Description
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.
- Strong technical background with an emphasis on data engineering.
- Data/analytics experience – you're 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.