Staff Product Manager, Developer Experience

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.

We are the now and the next. The power behind the people building the future. We are born from the spirit of innovation. We are created from the idea that people around the world want more, need more, deserve more. We are the home of the global digital revolution. We are CNN.

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• 8+ years of product management experience, owning a strategic priority product area with high complexity and ambiguity
• Demonstrated experience owning internal developer tools, developer platforms, or infrastructure related products, with engineers as the primary stakeholder
• Technical fluency in CI/CD, build systems, deployment pipelines, and developer tooling
• Familiarity with DORA metrics and demonstrated experience using engineering data to diagnose bottlenecks and drive product decisions
• Strong track record of driving adoption of platform tooling and engineering best practices across a large organization
• Proven ability to lead through influence and cross-functional collaboration, delivering measurable outcomes without direct authority
• Demonstrated ability to develop data insights that inform strategy and influence decisions across engineering and product teams
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, accessible language that resonates with product and business leaderships
• Excellent written and oral communication, producing clear product artifacts that are used as examples of quality work by the broader team

• Experience at a media company, publisher, or complex multi-platform digital organization
• Background in engineering operations, incident management, or deployment governance
• Proven track record of driving organizational behavior change in engineering organizations
• Familiarity with AI-assisted developer tooling and a clear point of view on where it does and does not meaningfully accelerate engineering velocity

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.

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