GVP, Software Engineering

GVP, Global Video Platform

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of. 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.

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

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. Discovery's continued growth, building world-class products from the ground-up for our iconic brands like HBO Max, Discovery Channel, CNN, Food Network, HGTV, Eurosport, and MotorTrend, and many more.

About the Opportunity:

The ideal candidate is an established leader of leaders, responsible for managing the Global Video Platform team. You are responsible for defining the mission of your team, inspiring and motivating your team to pursue that mission, and setting strategic goals for them to achieve in that pursuit. You have a balanced understanding of business and technical objectives and your guidance is sought out because your decisions drive the best outcomes for both. You own a set of key performance indicators important to the business, and drive outcomes for the business by setting goals against these metrics. This leader takes end-to-end ownership and consistently delivers results in a fast-paced environment and takes on a hands-on approach to deliver the best product experience for customers. They are a leader that the team loves to work with because they inspire, develop, and care for their team members.

Role Expectations:

Manage and lead WBD Playback experience for Mobile apps (iOS, Android) and Connected TVs (FireTV, GoogleTV and Apple TV) across all WBD product lines, globally. Provide technical and strategic vision, strategy and execution to the broader organization to build and operate global platform services. Develop and cultivate strong relationship with key stakeholders to drive the planning and execution of vital strategic and operational goals. Ability to switch between player-coach roles across design, arch, engineering planning, feature delivery, operational excellence, enable other teams to deliver services, manage cost and usage of cloud resources across the org. Build and grow leaders, people manager and ICs within the org to meet the scaling needs of the global platform. Champion Operational Excellence, establishing metrics, alerting and incident management processes that drive resilience & adaptability. Collaborate with InfoSec, Advertising, Product, Design, Content/Marketing, and Digital Platform teams to develop architecture proposals and to prioritize and build new features. Drive initiatives to meet smart goal objectives ranging from app downloads, app usage, retention, and customer satisfaction. Implement quality assurance and load testing to ensure high-reliability and performance of the apps, services, and infrastructure. Ensure SDLC processes are in place to support rapid iteration and frequent deployments. Drive an excellent customer experience, continually raising the bar on functionality, usability, and simplicity.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years experience in software engineering with at least 5+ years in a leadership role leading a global video engineering function.
• Strong technical domain/architecture understanding around video playback, live video.
• Experience leading VP’s and Directors across global teams and technology function areas.
• You measure success in terms of performance & scale of your engineering solutions. You strive in a culture of innovation and growth - willing to say yes and try out new ideas and living outside your comfort zone.
• You are comfortable handling multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Deep understanding of how culture and team dynamics create exceptional teams.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Strong leadership and people mgmt skills - influence without authority, change agent, leadership presence, empathy, people development, process improvements, data driven decision making, cross functional leadership alignment.
• Must be willing to travel.