Sr. Manager, Technical Program Management

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Technical Program Management to join our Warner Bros. Discovery Enterprise Data & AI Solutions team. You will drive end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional data programs while also leading a team of Technical Program Managers.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & TPM Function
• Manage and develop a team of Technical Program Managers
• Provide coaching, feedback, and support day-to-day execution
• Guide program execution standards
• Allocate TPM support across initiatives based on business impact and complexity
• Escalation leadership
• Ensure alignment and execution consistency across global teams
• Team Enablement
• Encourage adoption of tools, automation, and AI-enabled practices that improve team productivity and execution quality
• Communication & Influence
• Lead by influence
• Set a clear vision and drive execution through collaboration, alignment, and accountability
• Effective Communication
• Deliver clear, concise written and verbal communication tailored to technical and non-technical audiences
• Business Impact Articulation
• Explain how technical decisions and program goals align with broader business and divisional objectives
• Cross-Functional Alignment
• Facilitate alignment across teams and stakeholders to ensure shared understanding and commitment
• Portfolio Governance
• Maintain visibility into the organizational program portfolio, ensuring program health, status transparency, and alignment to business priorities
• Program Execution & Delivery
• Project Lifecycle Management
• Create and drive direction and strategy across all phases of engineering and program delivery in accordance with central PMO standards
• Documentation & Maintenance
• Document, articulate, and maintain technical and business requirements throughout the program lifecycle
• Requirements Gathering
• Discover and articulate business and technical requirements and dependencies, including those involving external teams and third-party partners
• Program Structuring
• Translate stakeholder needs into clear program plans, milestones, and deliverables
• Implementation Readiness
• Work with development teams to uncover implementation details and proactively identify roadblocks
• Engineering Partnership
• Work closely with development teams to drive alignment, uncover risks, and ensure smooth execution
• Hands-on Program Leadership
• Step into and lead high-priority, complex, or ambiguous programs as needed, particularly those with significant cross-functional dependencies or risk
• Risk & Dependency Management
• Proactively identify, track, and mitigate risks and dependencies across teams
• Continuous Improvement & Tooling
• Identify opportunities to apply automation and AI-enabled tools to improve program efficiency, tracking, and delivery
• Data Strategy & Systems Understanding
• Understand Data Flow
• Analyze and map how data moves across enterprise systems to ensure consistency, quality, and accessibility
• Drive Data Quality
• Organize and lead initiatives that deliver high-quality, trustworthy data to internal and external stakeholders
• Prioritization & Decision-Making
• Triage Initiatives
• Evaluate and prioritize multiple concurrent initiatives to focus on the most impactful problems
• Strategic Judgment
• Make informed decisions about what to tackle and when, balancing short-term needs with long-term goals
• Problem Solving & Innovation
• Problem Framing
• Create clear problem statements and use data to develop proposals and solutions
• Drive Consensus
• Align cross-functional stakeholders around solutions and ensure smooth execution

Qualifications & Experiences

• 8+ years leading complex technical programs across multiple teams
• 3+ years of experience managing or leading TPMs or similar roles
• Data/analytics experience – you’re a data person who can understand and document how data created in systems makes its way across enterprise data landscape
• Ability to function effectively and consistently when faced with frequently changing and sometimes ambiguous goals
• Ability to drive definition of project scope, develop detailed project plans and facilitate the collection of engineering, operational and business requirements