Staff Product 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. Senior Staff Product Manager Tech (Media Supply Chain Team), BangaloreAbout Warner Bros. Discovery:Warner Bros, 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 company combines premium entertainment with leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. For more information, please visit Meet Our Team:The Media Supply Chain team builds applications and services, that power Warner Bros content pipeline. Our applications cover the entire breadth of the media supply chain, from ideation to distribution to over 2,000 partners. We have a robust global community of thousands of internal Warner Bros users who rely on our apps every day to get television and films produced, on the air, and onto Discovery+, HBO Max, and beyond.Roles & Responsibilities:WBD is seeking an experienced Staff Product Manager in agile product development practices to work on Media Supply Chain product offerings.Product Vision and Strategy: Your role will primarily focus to develop product vision, strategy, roadmap planning and drive the OKRs commitments and ensuring alignment with business goals and customer needs for Observability productsGain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas improve customer experience, that create operational efficiencies across the organizationCreate buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partnersOwn and drive multiple initiatives/ features assigned to complex and strategic platform product areas and effectively prioritize, negotiate and perform expectation setting with stakeholders for conflicting and competing priorities.Translate ideas into written product pitch, lean canvas, a business use case. On-going collaboration with product lead and technology team to complete discovery of an initiativeDerive strategy and planning basis impact and leverage metrics to set priorities and work with multiple stakeholders (Engineering, Global Content Operators, design, product) to drive business and customer impactEvaluate Media Supply Chain planning to ensure consistency with Observability product strategyAct as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding of Observability tools and strategiesRepresent Media Supply Chain by visiting customers to solicit feedback on company products and servicesProduct Development & Lifecycle Management – Overseeing the entire lifecycle from ideation to launch and continuous improvement by adopting iterative product development cycle.Gather quantitative and qualitative information from business users, legacy platforms landscape and perform analysis to come up with opportunity, differentiation and propose product positioning to stakeholders.Ability to translate customer requirements into scalable product featuresBasis the prioritization, perform deep dive into existing tools and workflows to define product requirement document defining the scope, prototype, requirements and walkthrough the same with stakeholders to achieve a sign off ensuring product North star strategy is alignedUX & Design Principles - Ensuring products are intuitive and user-friendly.Software Development: Robust understanding of software development and technology to create initiatives and to involve in planning of deliverablesCustomer Insight: Gather insights from global content operators (GCO) to refine and enhance the product. Conduct regular GCO feedback sessions, user testing, and surveys to understand needs and pain points. Analyze data and metrics to measure product performance, identify areas for improvement, and make data-driven decisions.Create KPIs for measurement and track the same and enable the information to be consumed by stakeholders. Leverage analytics to track performance, A/B testing, optimize features, and enhance user experience and to make informed decisions.Devise adoption and rollout Strategy & Product Launches – Coordinating with business users and other stakeholders to build consensus and ensure successful rollouts and driving adoption.Post adoption drive enhancements to bring in seamless experience and usability, define MVP of the product to a select audience to gather feedback before a full-scale iterative rollout.Stakeholder Management: Engage with stakeholders at all levels of the organization to gather feedback, manage expectations, and provide regular updates on product progress and performance.Drive and communicate product launches including working with operations teams, program management teams, and technology leadershipRelease Planning and Execution: Plan and coordinate product releases, working closely with product owners, engineering, Global content operations, and quality assurance teams to ensure smooth deployments. Monitor post-release performance and gather user feedback to continuously improve the product.Develop product plan and contribute to overall Observability product strategyWork closely with engineering teams to deliver with quick execution and optimal resourcesAI & Automation- Optimizing workflows and infusion of AI in product and feature developmentDomain Knowledge:Data structure, change events and API driven updatesSnowflake, Tableau and LookrTechnical Aptitude:Knowledge of observability systems, APIs, Kafka-based architectures.Comfort working with engineering on schema, workflows, validation rules.Goals / VisionMoving towards the self-serve platform which customers can visualize and consumeYou will lead by example and define the best practices, will set high standards for the entire team and for the rest of the organization.You have a successful track record for ambitious projects across cross-functional teams.Ensure that technical solutions are in line with established WBD Digitalstrategy, standards with respect to architecture, security, corporate governance, coding standards, monitoring, logging, unit test, and service enablement.To make a great fit for this role, you will bring passion, curiosity, collaboration, and clarity to lead hypothesis-driven product discovery initiatives and are a structured problem solverSkills & CompetenciesAbility to define and drive product strategy and roadmap and align stakeholdersAbility to influence and collaborate in multisite cross-functional teams.Ability to drive product in alignment with product strategy and north-star definition.Proven work experience in product management and/or observability tooling and reportingAbility to define and drive quarterly product roadmap and align stakeholders and call out other product dependencies in forums and align prioritizationAbility to identify gaps, program risks and take pre-emptive actions to address them.Passionate self-starter with a no-excuses, can-do attitude and drive initiatives independentlyDemonstrated knowledge of Agile/Scrum; SAFe experience a plus but not required.Excellent written and verbal communication skillsStrong technical writing & visualization skillsStrong execution and product delivery skillsAbility to work under tight deadlines.What to Bring:12- 15 years of intensive and extensive product experienceMust have led / managed product development and worked with engineering teams to drive software development.Good Understanding on Product Life cycle Management.Must have experience in defining and documenting system interactions, high level data flows and component architecture.Should be familiar with various Software Development Life CyclesMust have strong product and project management skills and bring transparency into product development/roadmap delivery.Domain knowledge in the Media and Entertainment space will be a plus.Must have worked on globally distributed product development projects.What We Offer:A Great Place to work.Equal opportunity employerFast track growth opportunitiesHow 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 WBDWarner 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 accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.