Welcome to *** 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.
Your New Role...
The Program Manager within Sports Technology will be responsible for guiding and overseeing successful implementations of projects related to the Global Sports Platform across WBD. This role would work closely with project managers, product managers, developers and QA in an agile environment. This includes discovery, program and project plan creation, management of milestones, prioritization, change control, issue escalation, customer relationships and team leadership.
This is a high visibility position with leadership across the organization. It is critical to have effective communication and facilitation skills and the ability to craft messages to senior leadership, risk analysis, tight organization and attention to detail. In this position, you will ensure that teams are focused on the right things, blockers are removed, align with project sponsor's priorities, stakeholders an executive are regularly informed, the Product Roadmap is maintained, and work stream teams are collaborative. You will need to prioritize tradeoffs to ensure progress and success.
Your Role Accountabilities...
This individual will work on multiple, technically complex, mission-critical, and/or high-profile projects.The position is a client-facing role that supports the entire software development lifecycle for custom development as well as vendor-based toolsets.
- This is a multi-disciplined, cross-functional role, which collaborates with key stakeholders to deliver best-in-class tools, products, platforms, and experiences across websites, mobile apps, and connected TV/consoles.
- Provides day-to-day guidance of team (including PMs, Developers and QA) and serves as the on-site liaison
- Coordinate and collaborate development teams during implementation
- Work with our third-party vendor partners, coordinating their work with the *** team
- Collaborate with key stakeholders (cross functional teams ranging from management to platform teams and clients) to define, develop, shape and refine a program plan
- Communicate concise and regular status with various levels of domestic and international leadership
- Create budgets and manage team work to those financials
- Proactively identify variances to project plan and partner with key stakeholders to develop a successful mitigation plan
- Maintain quality ser *** by establishing and enforcing organization standards - I *** uence decisions through effective communication methods
- Provide clear and reliable communications to internal teams, program stakeholders, external vendors, and customers - Develop and monitor program policies processes, standards, governance, and metrics
- Facilitate continuous improvement by identifying efficiencies and expense reduction in programs
- Demonstrate high-end customer ser *** skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills
Qualifications & Experience...
- 2+ year of program management with technical teams
- 4+ years of project management skills
- 2+ years technical experience (e.g. as software developer, business analyst)
- Agile or PMP certifications preferred
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
- Experience managing highly technical or *** syntric initiatives is a plus
- Entertainment industry experience is desirable
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Ability to clearly communicate complex ideas to both technical and non-technical teams.
- Excellent escalation skills that lead to quick resolution of critical issues
- Ability to understand and abstract complex systems from technical descriptions
- Ability to thoroughly understand complex business and technical issues and i *** uence decision making at all levels of the organization without formal reporting structure authority
- Passionate about advocating product needs
- Experience working on consumer facing products
- Experience working in small to large teams to achieve project objectives and tasks under challenging deadlines, requiring successful collaboration and problem solving with team members preferred.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with a proven ability to partner with the business to define and document their current and future system needs.
- Excellent problem solving skills and ability to think outside-of-the-box when assessing possible solutions.
- Must be able to organize and schedule work effectively
- Must be able to work well under time constraints
- Must be able to handle multiple tasks with changing priorities, communicating changes in scope and schedule to all parties concerned
- Must be service-oriented
- Must be able to work independently
- Must be able to work flexible hours, including possible overtime, when necessary
- Must be able to maintain confidentiality
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 www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ 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.
The Legal Bits...
*** Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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