Warner Bros. Discovery
Bellevue, WA
Hybrid

Technical Program Manager III

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Technical Program Manager III

Location:  

Bellevue, WA, US, 98004

Date:  May 20, 2021

Req ID:  3142

Description: 

Discovery hires the very best and brightest talent who are enthusiastic and passionate to fulfill the company’s mission of empowering people to explore their world and satisfy their curiosity.

In exchange for their talent and drive, employees are provided with an engaging, diverse workplace and the resources they need to learn, thrive and grow in their careers.

Job Summary

As television and media habits change, our mission remains true to the principles that founded Discovery – every day we seek to ignite people’s curiosity to engage, entertain and enlighten the world around them through amazing viewing experiences.

The Direct-to-Consumer Group is a technology company within the Discovery family of brands. We are building a global streaming video platform (OTT) and a suite of applications to support delivering compelling content from Discovery’s library to our customers worldwide using modern container-based microservices operated on AWS. Our platform covers search, catalogue, video transcoding, personalization, global subscriptions, and much more. We build customer-focused user experiences ranging from classic lean-back viewing to interactive learning applications. We support our customers’ devices, including connected TVs, web, mobile phones, tablets, and consoles. We deliver content customers love through our various Discovery-owned networks: Discovery, Food Network, Golf TV, MotorTrend, Eurosport, Discovery Play, and many more. This is a growing, global engineering group providing critical tier-1 infrastructure for delivering Discovery’s promise to our customers.

We are hiring senior technical program managers to join our team. We focus on all aspects of streaming video: live and VOD pipelines, metadata transformation, server-side ad insertion, CDN integrations, playback services, video player backends, and AI/ML-based personalization. We are looking for strong technical leaders to join us who can take a leadership role in guiding the team in solving complex, challenging technical problems and delivering solutions to our customers.

The ideal candidate has a track record of having managed development of multiple high-performance, reliable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production. Your work and your approach to work are exemplary:

● You make other team members around you more productive by providing clarity on the what, why, who, and when.
● You are a collaborative partner who is always thinking ahead, challenging assumptions, and anticipating issues before they happen. You help teams avoid surprises.
● You show good judgement, guiding the team in making trade-offs between immediate and long-term customer and business needs.
● You drive best practices and set standards for the teams. You provide mentoring to others.

Responsibilities

● You partner with product management and engineering across the organization to translate product requirements to functional and technical designs. You work with engineering to establish user stories, milestones, and schedules. You bring the architectural and design pattern insights of an engineer to your work, combined with a project manager’s understanding of team dynamics, dependencies, and scheduling constraints.
● You partner closely with architects and principal engineers to ensure large, complex, cross-team projects have sound technical foundations and the design and implementation across teams provides for scalable, reliable, efficient systems.
● You are a champion of engineering best practices, helping to establish a culture of disciplined engineering and helping to implement mechanisms to help the team be more effective.

Requirements

● At least 5 years technical program management experience in a software product development environment, including direct experience in operational cloud computing applications.
● Proven experience as a technical leader. Demonstrated ability to earn trust, influence without authority, and successfully lead the development of complex applications.
● Strong sense of responsibility and ownership for the success of projects from inception to rollout and maintenance.
● Technical fluency with multi-tenant, cloud-based platform services.
● Active commitment to a diverse and inclusive work environment.

● Must have the legal right to work in the United States

 

Preferred Skills:
● At least 4 years experience as a software development engineer or in a quality assurance role.
● Knowledge of video encoding and video delivery fundamentals.
● Successful working with globally dispersed teams to act as one company.

Discovery Communications, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Discovery is committed to being an employer of choice, not just a good place to work, but a great and inclusive place to work. To that end, we strive to recruit and maintain a workforce that meaningfully represents the diverse and culturally rich communities that we serve. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disabled status or, genetic information.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including but not limited to all local Fair Chance Ordinances.

 

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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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