Senior Principal Product Manager, Content Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery · New York, NY · 2 wk ago
Marketing$238k–$443k/yrFull-time
About the role
We are seeking a Senior Principal Product Manager to lead strategy, vision, and execution for Content Discovery at Warner Bros. Discovery. This is a senior individual contributor leadership role with broad influence across product, engineering, data science, design, editorial, marketing, analytics, and executive stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the product strategy for Content Discovery, aligning long-term vision with company goals, user needs, and business priorities.
- Own a multi-horizon roadmap spanning foundational platform investments, user experience improvements, and next-generation discovery capabilities.
- Lead the evaluation and application of the latest frontier models to re-imagine how we understand content, understand user intent and taste, and generate more relevant, contextual, and adaptive discovery experiences.
- Identify where frontier models can materially improve search, recommendations, personalization, ranking, merchandising, and emerging conversational or assistive discovery experiences.
- Partner closely with engineering, data science, design, analytics, editorial, and marketing to translate strategy into product bets, execution plans, and successful launches.
- Identify and quantify customer pain points and business opportunities through research, experimentation, market understanding, and data analysis.
- Define product principles, success metrics, and experimentation frameworks to guide prioritization and measure impact.
- Drive a user-centered approach to discovery, improving relevance, clarity, usability, and overall customer satisfaction across surfaces and devices.
- Communicate product vision, priorities, tradeoffs, progress, and results clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, including executive leadership.
- Stay ahead of industry trends, competitive shifts, and advances in AI and machine learning, and translate those signals into product direction and business advantage.
- Raise the quality bar for product thinking, experimentation, and cross-functional decision-making across the broader discovery portfolio.
Qualifications
- 15+ years of product management experience, including significant experience in senior-level product leadership roles.
- Deep expertise in content discovery, search, recommendations, personalization, ranking, or related ML-driven consumer systems.
- Demonstrated success defining product strategy and leading complex, cross-functional initiatives that drive engagement, satisfaction, and business growth.
- Strong understanding of experimentation, metric design, and data-informed product development.
- Strong technical fluency, with the ability to engage credibly on model, data, system, and platform tradeoffs.
- Experience bringing AI or machine learning capabilities into production consumer products, ideally at large scale.
- Strong understanding of the latest generation of AI models and sound judgment about where they can transform product experiences versus where traditional approaches remain more effective.
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead through complexity without direct authority.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related field.