Staff, Technical Program Manager

Your New Role The Staff, Technical Program Manager reports to the Director, Engineering – Converged Advertising and is responsible for managing dependencies across various work streams, coordination, sprint planning, running scrums, ensuring teams follow development processes. Your Role Accountabilities CrossPlatform Systems Enablement – Lead delivery of cross platform programs that power high volume ad serving, data, and reporting systems across linear and digital environments, supporting thousands of internal users and billions of impressions. Execution, Risk & Dependency Management – Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and technical tradeoffs across highly interdependent, multi-team initiatives in large-scale distributed systems. Status Reporting & Executive Visibility – Provide clear, consistent, and executive-ready program status reporting, surfacing progress, risks, dependencies, and decision points for senior leadership. Qualifications & Experience Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline required; Technical Program Management Expertise: 8+ years of technical program management experience, ideally in advertising technology, SaaS, or enterprise platforms. Technical Acumen: Strong technical background with the ability to engage deeply in system architecture, data flows, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems; capable of partnering effectively with senior and principal engineers. AdTech Domain Knowledge: Solid understanding of advertising technology ecosystems, including ad serving, campaign management, forecasting, yield optimization, measurement, and converged linear + digital advertising platforms. Status Reporting & Executive Communication: Owns program level status reporting with clear, accurate, and timely updates for senior leadership, highlighting progress, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs; creates concise executive-ready artifacts and drives transparent communication across stakeholders. Execution & Delivery: Proven track record of driving large, enterprise-scale programs from conception through delivery, coordinating global engineering teams, and achieving measurable impact on platform reliability, scalability, adoption, or revenue. Cross-Functional Leadership & Stakeholder Alignment: Experienced in gathering and synthesizing business, product, and technical requirements; aligning roadmaps and execution plans with revenue growth, operational efficiency, client outcomes, and regulatory needs. Collaboration & Communication: Exceptional ability to influence without authority across Engineering, Product, Sales, Operations, Finance, and Legal, supported by clear, concise written and verbal communication with senior leaders. Risk Management & Dependency Planning: Demonstrated ability to identify, manage, and mitigate technical and organizational risks, complex dependencies, and tradeoffs across multi-team initiatives. Innovation & Transformation Orientation: Track record of leading modernization and transformation initiatives, including re-architecture efforts, platform migrations, and transitions from legacy systems to cloud-native, scalable solutions. Organizational Impact & Mentorship: Experience setting program management best practices, improving delivery rigor, and mentoring other TPMs to raise the overall bar for execution at scale. Note: This job description may include promotional language. For this role, compensation information is disclosed as required by local law. Pay Range: $144,760.00 - $268,840.00 per year. Base pay is one component of Warner Bros. Discovery’s total compensation package. Other rewards may include bonuses and program-specific awards. We also provide benefits such as health insurance, wellness programs, retirement plans, paid holidays and vacation. #J-18808-Ljbffr Warner Media, LLC.