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Warner Bros. Discovery Sr. Staff Product Manager in New York, New York

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.

Your New Role:

As a Sr. Staff Product Manager at CNN, you’ll be responsible for both the near-term prioritization and the long-term vision for interactive audio & video products and features at CNN.

This role is dedicated to the usability of the CMS tool the programming team uses to program & curate content for CNN end users. You will create and optimize CMS features that empower the programming team to effectively curate content for CNN Video (long form content and clips) & Audio specific use cases.

Your Role Accountabilities:

You’ll balance user needs and research, the business landscape, and the boundaries of our technical capabilities to assess product-market fit, bring new products to market, grow our team, and improve engagement, retention, and growth with CNN’s audience of 100M+ users.

You’ll work iteratively and cross-functionally with colleagues in product, engineering, design, user research, analytics, editorial, and marketing in order to build consensus around tradeoffs, define goals, plan roadmaps, and collectively shape the future of news.

Examples of initiatives include:

• Drafting & reusing of components

• Efficient search experience within CMS to streamline programming steps

• Create Asset (Image/video/series/film) manager in CMS that enables editing of asset metadata that will propagate across pages & platforms

• Allow CMS users to preview pages by auth type, location and more

• Ability to test headlines & keyarts for a single piece of content

• Optimize Audio's file management and metadata model for a range of file types including Promotional assets, Episodes, Art Work: Show, Episode, Social, etc

Qualifications & Experience

• Brainstorm with cross functional team effective and intuitive features in the CMS for content programming use cases

• Develop solutions to improving existing and create new VOD and Live video workflows

• Optimize programming workflows and help programming team to focus on what to program, not how to program

• Partner with design to conduct regular office hour & user training/testing sessions

• Maintain how-to video program guides

• Work with Audio PM to help develop Audio's strategic and tactical relationship between CMS tools and Audio-specific 3rd party Hosting and Distribution service providers

• Demonstrated track record of aligning product efforts around core strategies.

• Demonstrated experience defining and tracking key metrics across the user experience to power decision-making

• Ability to actively listen and incorporate feedback for continuous improvement

• 8+ years of demonstrated experience in product management or similar roles in a consumer-facing product environment

• Strong work ethic and integrity

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.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. 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.

If you’re a qualified candidate and you require adjustments or accommodations to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please contact us at recruitadmin@wbd.com.

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery’s total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $125,300.00 - $232,700.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.

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