Technical Program Manager II

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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.

We are the now and the next. The power behind the people building the future. We are born from the spirit of innovation. We are created from the idea that people around the world want more, need more, deserve more. We are the home of the global digital revolution. We are CNN.

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About the Job

Warner Bros. Discovery seeks a seasoned Technical Program Manager for CNN cross-functional teams. Technical Program Management is a key part of the technology team at CNN. We build global technology solutions that scale to millions of customers. We innovate on behalf of customers to delight them and address their pain points.

We need someone that can develop and execute technical programs with cross-functional teams; that has experience in distributed content management platforms, release management and managing cross-dependencies across the organization.

An opportunity to join CNN and help to determine the next generation of consumer platform products. You will bring both technical and program management skills, business acumen and judgment, and the desire to bring clarity to ambiguity.

You possess a technical program management background, will have demonstrated experience delivering software in consumer experiences software and platforms systems or related industry.

You must be able to thrive and succeed in an entrepreneurial environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This means you are not only able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives, but can also roll up your sleeves, dig in and get the job done.

You can influence with a knack for getting things done. Who is able to separate what's important from what's urgent and find the best path forward from among multiple scenarios, earn the trust of stakeholders, and improve the efficiency of our cross-functional organization.

About the Team

CNN is a 40+ year storied brand that has been on the forefront of the major news events of our time. We reach audiences around the world, with millions of people coming to CNN to understand events around them.

The CNN Technology team is a growing, vibrant team full of passionate, collaborative technologists. Our mission is to help make CNN essential every day for our customers, by creating world class products to deliver news and information that helps people live a better life, no matter where they are in the world.

The Performance, Platform Partnerships, and Content Platforms teams within the Platforms group are dedicated to developing platform solutions that seamlessly integrate technical excellence with user-centric design. Their commitment to user privacy and optimized site functionality reflects a passion for building secure, engaging, and delightful digital experiences that foster trust and satisfaction across our user base.

The Daily

• You will help drive collaborative cross-functional teams to oversee the planning, design, and delivery of core platform systems through to production releases. This includes ensuring seamless integration across platform components, architectural alignment, and operational resilience of core infrastructure.

• You will coordinate across inter-dependent teams to refine and implement core platform architectures, working directly with product and engineering teams to contribute to a cohesive strategy that aligns technical requirements with business/product objectives.

• Work with teams to help maintain backlogs translate business requirements into technical specifications and define technical roadmaps with product and engineering as partners.

• Engage with internal and external stakeholders, manage product and platforms teams inter-dependencies, risks and communicate appropriately across the business.

• Partner with engineering to solve release processes inefficiencies, governances, and operations.

• Drive engagement and facilitate OKRs goals and establishing milestones that align with cross-functional team dependencies and strategic goals and communicate across the organization.

• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and software delivery best practices.

• Evangelize software delivery standards using agile and/or continuous deployment methodologies, be the champion of teams' health and performance;

• Contribute to define new standards, advocate for our architecture, process, design system and standards across the organization.

• Support new team members onboarding, tools, documentation, team distribution list; serve as the L1/L2 Support for anyone onboarding into the teams.

• Manage and track teams opex and capex finances in partnership with the portfolio manager.

• Collaborate on technical skill development and expertise enhancement with the Senior Staff IC Technical Program Lead.

The Essentials

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical field of equivalent experience.

• 3+ years of experience with engineering teams and 3 years in technical program management or equivalent experience.

• Knowledge of CMS infrastructure and RESTful API integration(s).

• Knowledge in modern languages in use (Java, Python, JavaScript) and architectural paradigm(s)

• Understanding of cloud-based infrastructure (AWS), edge compute, and scalable data architecture.

• Knowledge of CI/CD practices, GitHub, and agile+iterative development methodologies.

• Able to translate requirements, system architecture, and facilitating cross-functional engineering program efforts.

• Adept communication skills to convey complex technical information to stakeholders across all organizational levels.

The Nice to Haves

• Experience building solutions in distributed systems and/or developing applications.

• Ability to inspire teams to work on not just what is urgent, but what is most important.

• Ascertain the true requirements underlying feature requests; recommend alternative technical approaches and support engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines.

• Participate in architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment for platform health.

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 ~~~/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.

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