Staff Product Manager

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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.

Senior Staff Product Manager Tech (Media Supply Chain Team),
Bangalore

About 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.
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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 products

• Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas improve customer experience, that create operational efficiencies across the organization

• Create buy-in for the product vision both internally and with key external partners
• Own 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 initiative
• Derive 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 impact
• Evaluate Media Supply Chain planning to ensure consistency with Observability product strategy
• Act as a product evangelist to build awareness and understanding of Observability tools and strategies
• Represent Media Supply Chain by visiting customers to solicit feedback on company products and services

• Product 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 features
• Basis 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 aligned
• UX & 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 deliverables

• Customer 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 leadership

• Release 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 strategy

• Work closely with engineering teams to deliver with quick execution and optimal resources
• AI & Automation
• Optimizing workflows and infusion of AI in product and feature development

• Domain Knowledge
  :

• Data structure, change events and API driven updates

• Snowflake, Tableau and Lookr

• Technical Aptitude
  :

• Knowledge of observability systems, APIs, Kafka-based architectures.

• Comfort working with engineering on schema, workflows, validation rules.

• Goals / Vision

• Moving towards the self-serve platform which customers can visualize and consume

• You 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
  Digital

strategy, 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 solver

Skills & Competencies

• Ability to define and drive product strategy and roadmap and align stakeholders
• Ability 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 reporting
• Ability to define and drive quarterly product roadmap and align stakeholders and call out other product dependencies in forums and align prioritization
• Ability 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 independently
• Demonstrated knowledge of Agile/Scrum; SAFe experience a plus but not
  required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication
  skills
• Strong technical writing & visualization
  skills
• Strong execution and product delivery
  skills
• Ability to work under tight
  deadlines.

What to Bring:

• 12- 15 years of intensive and extensive product experience
• Must 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
  Cycles
• Must 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
  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.

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