Warner Bros. Discovery
Bellevue, WA
Hybrid

Director of Engineering

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We are hiring a Director of Product Management in Bellevue, Washington to drive innovative and data driven Recommendation & Personalization solutions for customers across Discovery’s wide array of direct-to-consumer products, including digital products across entertainment, food, home, auto, nature, and science. The diversity of content within the Discovery portfolio provides a unique challenge to help develop user interest graphs & drive engagement across loosely coupled lifestyle interests. The Director of Product Management will be an experienced product manager with extensive background enabling teams & building solutions with actionable data and insightful analytics. He/she will drive customer focused user engagement solutions for digital products and be a leader in advancing the use of scientific methods to solve business and technology problems.

This senior leader will partner closely with product teams, engineering to design user experience, data capture, work with data engineering to build and maintain scalable recommendation & personalization systems and collaborate with data scientists and business analysts to drive user engagement. This senior leader will have strong attention to detail, in-depth analytical knowledge and understand & follow agile methods; adapt to dynamic & changing environment and communicate with simplicity & in timely manner. You will work cross-functionally with Data Scientists, Product Managers, Engineers and Business stakeholders to identify new opportunities, influence and align priorities and execute against roadmap to meet and exceed goals.

An ideal candidate will be a creative thinker, result-driven and passionate for using data and scientific methods to drive innovation and produce great experiences for our customers. This person will advocate for data-driven decision making, have an insatiable curiosity, love to invent and innovate to solve difficult problems, and obsess about their customers. The candidate will have a strong point of view but remain open-minded should evidence lead elsewhere. This senior product manager takes end-to-end ownership of their work and consistently delivers results in a fast-paced environment and envisions new models that help technology and business teams become more efficient.

Responsibilities

1. Collaborate with product, marketing, analytics and technology teams to develop experiences that drive user engagement & retention across a wide spectrum of content within the Discovery portfolio.
2. Play a leading role in defining engagement experiences for digital products, balancing with the technical performance of the product; establish standards for enhancing data capture solution and partner with engineering to implement and enhance analytics capabilities for direct-to-consumer products.
3. Communicate effectively and in timely manner across different levels ranging from engineers to executives, and enable decision-making through use of data, analytics and scientific methods.
4. Be the expert on existing/emerging Data Science technologies and techniques to enhance product roadmap and drive customer engagement. Have excellent understanding of data science fundamentals, data structures and algorithms.
5. Assist data scientists by creating conceptual data and analytical models for new business problems, enable real time execution & automation and gather feedback to improve analytical and data science models.
6. Take ownership for driving new algorithm development; create a plan for continuous optimization and quantify improvement in the performance of algorithms and machine learning models.
7. Thoroughly understand of Data Scientists’ and Analysts’ needs and partner with data engineering to efficiently handle large volume of data in real time as well as batch data and identify opportunities to decrease execution times.
8. Proactively identify risks and issues and drive effective resolution by engaging different teams across the organization, actively manage dependencies and mitigate resource constraints.
9. Collaborate with product managers, designers, engineers, and data scientists on user stories, prioritization, and sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives to develop model-based solutions for product initiatives and launches.
10. Support the hiring and development of other data scientists, analysts, and other technical professionals, helping them enhance their skills, while supporting a fun and engaging culture.

Requirements

* Minimum of 10+ years of proven experience in product management in technology environment.
* Strong understanding of digital products, e-commerce economics and strong business acumen.
* Drive incremental improvements in ambiguous situations and in a fast paced and matrixed organization.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills. Can effectively communicate vision and plan with audience.
* Understanding of statistical concepts, programming languages, such as Python or R, hypothesis testing.
* Experience in structuring, cleansing, and preparing large, complex datasets using SQL or other data querying techniques.
* Experience with Amazon Web Services (Redshift, S3, EC2, EMR, etc.) is preferred.
* Experience in working across product, engineering, and analytics teams to evaluate new ideas, discuss technical concepts, create scalable designs, implement new models, and make tradeoffs to remove roadblocks.
* Proven track record of driving use of data and scientific methods to solve business problems and accelerate product features and capabilities.
* Master’s degree in business, quantitative or technical field (engineering, statistics, computer sciences, etc.) is a required.

* Must have the legal right to work in the United States.

 

 

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What are Warner Bros. Discovery Perks + Benefits

Warner Bros. Discovery Benefits Overview

Warner Bros Discovery offers a comprehensive set of benefits and perks to support employees in their personal and professional lives. Some program highlights include:

• Local medical, dental, and vision programs in many countries around the world.
• On-site wellness and fitness centers across several of our office locations.
• Family support programs. In the U.S., additional services include on-site childcare in certain offices, backup childcare services, family caregiver leave, adoption, surrogacy, and cryopreservation assistance, and more.
• Tools and resources to support the mental wellbeing of our employees and their dependents, including mental health counselors and 24/7 access to free, confidential support through our Employee Assistance Program administrators.
• Products and services to support financial wellbeing including financial planning tools, and a 401(k) savings plan in the U.S.
• Flexible work arrangements around the globe, allowing employees to better balance work and personal commitments.
• Global learning, leadership & organization programs to inspire, equip, and empower our people to thrive. These programs and resources are accessible to everyone at whatever stage they are in their career.

Culture
Volunteer in local community
Partners with nonprofits
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Employee-led culture committees
Hybrid work model
In-person all-hands meetings
Summer hours
Employee awards
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
Diversity
Documented equal pay policy
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Diversity recruitment program
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
Team workouts
Mental health benefits
Transgender health care benefits
Wellness days
Abortion travel benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Company equity
Employee stock purchase plan
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Pay transparency
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Childcare benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
Adoption Assistance
Company sponsored family events
Fertility benefits
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Unlimited vacation policy
Paid volunteer time
Sabbatical
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Flexible time off
Bereavement leave benefits
Company-wide vacation
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
Free snacks and drinks
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
Relocation assistance
Home-office stipend for remote employees
Meditation space
Mother's room
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks
Paid industry certifications
Personal development training
Virtual coaching services

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