Staff Product Manager

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Position: Staff Product Manager, Growth: Partnerships

1. Title: Staff Product Manager, Growth: Partnerships

2. Position Details:

A.    Location: Hyderabad

B.    Hiring Manager: Meredith Slane, Senior Director

C.    Band: Staff Product Manager

D.     Individual Contributor (IC) role: Individual Contributor

F.     Travel Required: Limited. Travel ~2-4 times / per year

3. Job Description:

About Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD)

Warner Bros. Discovery is the global leader in scripted and real-life entertainment, sports, and news. We serve passionate fans with content that inspires, informs, and entertains, providing leadership across deeply loved and trusted brands, such as HBO, CNN, Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel. Available in 220 countries and territories and 50 languages, WBD reaches viewers on all screens and services, from free-to-air and paid-TV channels, to digital streaming services, to social and mobile-first content. WBD delivers over 8,000 hours of original programming each year.

About Us

WBD’s Direct To Consumer (DTC) group is the global leader in providing innovative and immersive digital products and content for iconic brands. We are working at the crossroads of technology, entertainment, and everyday utility. As content creators across the digital ecosystem, we leverage our technology to create immersive viewing and interactive experiences. We tell engaging stories to millions of viewers across the Internet every day and bring new interactive experiences to life to entertain and improve the lives of our customers.

Position Summary

Warner Bros. Discovery is looking for an experienced Staff Product Manager to help envision, prioritize, communicate, and oversee HBO Max product strategy and execution for the cohort of customers with access to HBO Max through 3rd-party partnerships.

In this key role, you will collaborate with global and regional business stakeholders (Distribution, Partner Marketing, Strategy) and a cross-functional team (Design, Engineering, Technical Program Management, Account Management) with the goal to remove friction and pain points related to activation, onboarding, and partner commerce integrations and to drive overall market penetration and customer engagement across our portfolio of supported devices and platforms.

We are looking for strong leadership and collaboration both within WBD and with external partners, including digital partners and cable affiliates that offer HBO Max subscriptions. You are an effective cross-functional team leader who can envision, get buy in for, and drive the successful implementation of initiatives that span multiple teams. You have strong product sense and problem-solving skills, as well as proven success with experimentation and deep data analysis. You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and influencing without authority. You know what good – and great – looks like.

Responsibilities

• Develop and communicate product vision for key elements in the partnership area.
• Lead product discovery, collaborating with research, customer support, and product design teams to unearth customer problems.
• Serve as an internal subject matter expert on product partnerships. Stay current on emerging trends and competitive analysis.
• Produce product requirements that balance business goals with a strong focus on customer experience.
• Develop, communicate, and measure objectives and key results.
• Define, execute, and analyze experiments validating customer problems and experience improvements.
• Collaborate with product designers and external partner teams to develop best-in-class, end-to-end user flows.
• Serve as the point person in engagements with external partners that require product expertise and a customer experience advocate.
• Be the customer expert: identify and solve customer problems; be fully knowledgeable of pain points and develop plans to address. Identify opportunities to drive down customer support contacts.
• Own continuous reporting on performance, including post-product release impact reports that lead to actionable plans for further optimization.

 Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience
• Detailed knowledge of popular subscription streaming services and the competitive landscape with a particular focus in the APAC region
• Proven success leveraging data and trends to develop a strong point of view
• Skill in crafting concise and customer-centric PR/FAQs, PRDs, and product vision documents with a compelling narrative
• Excellent presentation skills, demonstrating the ability to tailor content for the audience, including senior leadership; comfort representing the larger team
• Experience launching and operating products and features for a global audience
• Experience with multivariant testing methodologies; highly skilled in using data to inform product decisions
• Experience developing consumer-facing experiences across multiple platforms (e.g., web, mobile, connected TVs and set-top boxes)
• Ability to adapt rapidly in a fast-moving environment with shifting priorities
• Strong ownership to ideate and deliver exceptional customer experiences while meeting business needs
• Experience working with external partners                     

Want to Learn More?

Learn more about our company culture and life at Discovery, Inc. at  https://wbd.com/careers/

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.

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