Staff Technical Program Manager

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 Staff TPM Release Management - Bangalore India About Warner Bros Discovery Warner Bros Discovery a premier global media and entertainment company offers audiences the world s most differentiated and complete portfolio of content brands and franchises across television film streaming and gaming The new company combines Warner Media s premium entertainment sports and news assets with Discovery s leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses For more information please visit Meet Our Team The Release Delivery Engineering - Release Management team is hiring a Release Manager who will help support the release trains and be responsible for managing releases for these products RM Support includes release coordination scheduling managing timelines app submissions and the publishing of apps The ideal candidate will have a passion for technical operations and workflows which give the organization a competitive edge and improve developer efficiencies Roles Responsibilities Scope Complexity You drive projects across more than one team you have experience managing dependencies and stakeholders from external teams You re able to take an ambiguous problem statement related to your subject-matter area to drive project deliverables over multiple iterations to achieve the right outcome Decision Making You are able to act as a representative for your area autonomously Your decisions are right far more often than not You play a leadership role in your team they look to you for advice on technical and business issues Execution You get a lot done and you make others around you more productive You have a companywide view of how your programs or projects impact the bottom line and you constantly think about how to improve our ability to deliver large projects Operations You apply processes and standards thoughtfully with bias towards automation identifying the right amount of process and structure to achieve the correct outcome with the least overhead Influence You play a leadership role in your team they look to you for advice on the product direction technical designs and operations Communication Your written and verbal communication skills are exemplary concise and to the point making you the initial point of contact for business and technical stakeholders You are the point of contact for data related to your product services and features What to Bring The ideal candidate with 10-15 years total experience will also have a track record as a release manager of having managed releases at a global scale multi-platform systems with teams distributed internationally Your work and your approach to work are exemplary you drive best practices and set standards for the organization You are a key influencer in your team s strategy and contribute significantly to team planning You show good judgment making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs You are a collaborative partner that makes other team members around you more productive by sharing your knowledge and helping to tie-break key technical decisions You provide mentoring to others 5 years experience supporting a full development life cycle for Android Apple Web or other platform ecosystems Must have app submission experience in one of the major app store portals The Release Manager will oversee a number of key functions within the product development environment that enable the delivery of a high-quality service to end users and to ensure when we release changes to the service it meets the business needs This position is an executive stakeholder facing role and requires that you establish and manage expectations within the business and drive engineering teams to achieve those expectations to a high standard Operational and release management experience in an agile framework within a media or technology company preferred Experience driving change in branching strategy semantic versioning sprint planning dependency management different test activities and release tracking Experience working with engineering teams to drive improvements in Release Engineering pipeline for automated tracking and reporting on release artifacts JIRA items sprint scope bug report test report release notes Experience in large scale global product launches thru a scalable automated release pipeline workflow leveraging CI CD workflows and QA automation workflows Experience of working with frontend iOS Android Web Roku CTV SDK and backend engineering and QA teams to coordinate dependencies and release planning Experience in change management processes Experience working with global teams comprising product engineering QA operations functional areas Familiar with build and delivery tools similar to Maven Gradle Bazel for build and GitHub Actions Jenkins Spinnaker Fastlane or similar for delivery What We Offer A Great Place to work Equal opportunity employer Fast track growth opportunities 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 age sexual orientation religion or belief marital status pregnancy parenthood disability 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 for instructions to submit your request