Discovery Inc

Location: New York, New York, United States,
Req ID: 33769

Overview

Every great story has a new beginning.

We're excited to announce that Discovery and WarnerMedia have combined to become Warner Bros. Discovery. We're a premier global media and entertainment company offering audiences the world's most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, sports, news, streaming and gaming. Our mission is simple. To be the world's best storytellers with world-class products for consumers. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers and beyond, join us as we step into the next chapter.

Warner Bros. Discovery's DTC technology and product organization sits at the intersection of tech, entertainment, and everyday utility. We are continuously leveraging new technology to build immersive and interactive viewing experiences. Our platform covers everything from search, catalog, and video transcoding, to personalization, global subscriptions, and more. We are committed to delivering quality user experiences, ranging from video streaming to applications across connected TV, mobile, web and consoles. As a pure tech organization, we are essential to Warner Bros. Discoverys continued growth, building world-class products from the ground-up for our iconic brands like HBO Max, Discovery Channel, CNN, Food Network, HGTV, Eurosport, MotorTrend, and many more.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will work in direct partnership with CPMO to define and continue to fine-tune agile methodologies and ceremonies. You will also help to define and drive processes for the TPM community. Maintain the global tech roadmap through quarterly planning and change management, and will help to create and drive best practices for the full technical program management community in global tech to ensure there is a single source of truth for tracking, measuring and reporting program progress and status.

You will lead the Jira team and collaborate on strategic direction and help prioritize and define requirements for Jira initiatives.

Further role Responsibilities & Requirements include:

Lead a team of administrators and support staff with a clear mission.
Jira administration, architecture, and operations.
Understanding of the PDLC and how Atlassian tools fit into the delivery pipeline.
Experience gathering requirements from stakeholders and adapting those into the technical workings of the toolset.
Employing the unique talents & interests of each team member in fulfilling our mission.
Passion for solving complex technical challenges.
Proficiency with Atlassian data structures & analytics.
Proficiency with SQL databases & queries, joining to other data sources, Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) operations.
Proficiency with APIs & Python scripting for automation & reporting.
Experience writing code within ScriptLead a team of Jira experts who consult, architect, customize, analyze, develop, report, troubleshoot, streamline, and support users within the Atlassian applications and related integrations within the PDLC pipeline.
Consult on and deliver Jira reporting that enables data-driven decisions.
Perform deep delivery data analysis into release quality, project progress & forecasts, team velocity & capacity, Jira data quality, and more. Identify effective & ineffective behaviors, bottlenecks, context switching, hand-offs, dependencies, etc.
Assist with Jira support requests, automation, and custom solutions.
Coordinate Atlassian governance & strategy activities to ensure our configuration is aligned with organizational structure & processes.
Ensure changes within systems are communicated & documented appropriately as well as thoughtfully & democratically applied.
Assist with Jira standardization efforts to enable easier collaboration, smoother flow, increased visibility, simpler administration, and to facilitate deeper data analysis.
Collaborate on Atlassian special projects such as rollout of new features, migrations, integrations, system maintenance, reporting, and more.
Scale & socialize approved & effective delivery practices across global teams.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics.
Establish all operational metrics and support for the programs.
Report on the status of development, quality, operations, and system performance to the senior tech leadership team and above.
Consistently bring strong, data-driven business and technical judgment to decisions.
Responsible for creating dashboards / reports to share key program updates for stakeholders and leadership
Business acumen sufficient to:

Quickly absorb the intricacies of our departments and processes.
Recommend improvements that will help the company be more efficient and successful.

Qualifications

Strong experience in Runner, Structure & eazyBI to provide real-time metrics & app functionality.
Strong people leadership experience, including talent selection, engagement, growth and retention.

Able to work across multiple resources and orchestrate multiple activities with speed and agility.
Ability to develop short term and long term process improvement plans.
Able to dive deeply into both technical details and business needs.
Experience working with engineering teams to deliver products keeping iterative success as a mindset.
Strong analytical and big picture capabilities in problem solving.
Highly skilled in working in a global environment, both with colleagues across multiple time zones and countries as well as delivering products and services on a truly global scale.
An appreciation of cultural differences between regions and countries, always striving to deliver the best possible services for customers within the global product portfolio.

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles that will be performed in New York City. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Warner Bros. Discoverys total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $173,943 -$323,037 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 paid time off (PTO).

Discovery requires vaccination for employment consideration, except where prohibited by law. Discovery will consider requests for exemption from this requirement upon an offer of employment. Employees with approved exemptions due to health or religious reasons must abide by weekly rigorous COVID-19 testing protocols.

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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