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.
Warner Bros. has been entertaining audiences for more than 90 years through the world’s most-loved characters and franchises. Warner Bros. employs people all over the world in a wide variety of disciplines. We're always on the lookout for energetic, creative people to join our team.
Your New Role...
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead a high-impact engineering organization in Amsterdam. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who thrives in ambiguity, drives operational excellence, and consistently delivers results through disciplined execution and strong governance. You will own the roadmap, delivery mechanisms, and people strategy for the Connected TV/STB organisation with multiple teams working on customer-facing products used by millions worldwide.
You’ll lead a multi-location engineering organisation with respective managers who are responsible for building critical front-end and platform experiences, collaborating with global teams across the company. You will help shape the culture and have broader impact, driving both innovation and delivery excellence. Your organization values strong execution, clarity, and operational rigor. Success in this role requires high ownership, data-driven decision-making, and the ability to define and deliver results through multiple teams.
This is an opportunity to lead a high-visibility teams delivering world-class Connected TV experiences used by millions of viewers globally.
Your Role Accountabilities...
Delivery Leadership
Own end-to-end delivery of large, complex projects across diverse problem domains.
Build and execute team quarterly and annual roadmaps and support building platform’s that align to business goals and measurable OKRs/KPIs.
Lead through ambiguity, enabling teams to execute effectively even when problem definitions evolve.
Balance short-term tactical delivery with long-term strategy, ensuring consistent execution and quality outcomes.
Promote a progressive, iterative development approach from proof-of-concept to production readiness.
Partner with Product, Design, and TPMs to define vision, roadmap, and Technical Excellence priorities for key business initiatives.
Collaborate cross-functionally to influence product and engineering strategy across multiple organisations.
Drive Operational Excellence (OPEX): implement monitoring, incident management, and process improvements to increase availability, reduce defects, and enhance velocity.
Comfortably engage and manage incidents, drive reliability programs, or change management.
Measure impact, set clear expectations, and drive accountability at all levels.
Communicate clearly and frequently with senior stakeholders, providing transparency on progress, trade-offs, and impact.
Technical Excellence
Demonstrated ability to identify, prioritize, and drive long-term technical excellence initiatives for the verticals that your team owns — such as refactoring legacy components, reducing tech debt, improving observability, and strengthening reliability mechanisms — while balancing delivery commitments.
Proven skill in building mechanisms that continuously surface technical debt and operational risks, using metrics, retrospectives, and data from incidents or defects to inform roadmap trade-offs and engineering investments.
Strong technical judgment to align engineering improvements with business outcomes — influencing partner teams and senior leadership to allocate time, resources, and ownership toward maintainability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
People Leadership and Culture
Lead and scale engineering teams, mentor managers
Build, mentor, and develop engineering talent — cultivating a high-performing, diverse, and inclusive team culture.
Foster a culture of ownership, curiosity, and continuous learning — encouraging teams to “fail up” through experimentation and reflection.
Encourage innovation and operational discipline in equal measure — delivering high standards while maintaining speed.
Build an inclusive, diverse environment where every engineer feels empowered to contribute and grow.
Drive initiatives that raised the engineering culture and improved organizational mechanisms.
Hire, develop, and retain top-tier engineering talent
Qualifications and Experience...
BS in Computer Science or related field, or at least 10 years of software development experience.
7+ years of engineering management experience leading 20+ engineers and multiple teams, including managers.
Proven record of leading through ambiguity and delivering results with minimal oversight.
Strong technical background in front-end or full-stack engineering; Typescript, JavaScript experience preferred
Hands-on understanding of architecture, CI/CD, testing strategies, and performance optimisation.
Hands-on expertise in disparate technologies, typically ranging from front-end user interfaces through to back-end systems and all points in between.
Experience collaborating with global counterparts across multiple time zones.
Demonstrated experience with Agile/Scrum delivery models, quarterly planning, and cross-functional execution.
Deep experience using data and metrics to guide decision-making and measure outcomes.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to bridge understanding across technical and non-technical audiences.
Demonstrated ability to define success metrics for team and product performance and hold teams accountable to outcomes.
Skill in managing interpersonal conflicts, encouraging healthy dialogue, and handling high-stakes situations calmly.
Experience managing distributed or hybrid engineering organisations.
Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities with a bias for action and ownership.
Preferred Qualifications
Programming & domain experience in the OTT environment is a plus.
Expertise on memory constraint devices highly preferable such as Connected TV or set-top-boxes (STB).
Proven success in fostering collaboration and alignment across large non-embedded product, QA, and service teams with a strong track record in project and stakeholder management — estimation, risk mitigation, and dependency resolution.
Experience balancing feature delivery with technical debt and long-term maintainability.
History of improving engineering velocity, quality, and operational performance through mechanism design and iteration.
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 a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.