About this Senior Principal Product Manager, Content Discovery role at Warner Bros. Discovery
Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.
Who We Are…
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.
At HBO Max, storytelling takes center stage. We’re one of the world’s most iconic entertainment brands — home to bold originals and unforgettable characters. While audiences binge award-winning content, breaking news, and sports around the clock, our teams stay busy at work creating what’s next in streaming. From Succession, Euphoria, and The Sopranos to global franchises like Game of Thrones and Harry Potter, our content sparks conversation and shapes culture.
HBO Max delivers boundary-pushing stories across genres and platforms, connecting millions of viewers across 90 countries globally— and we’re just getting started. We're home to the most talked about shows and movies, granting audiences access to the worlds of HBO, Harry Potter, DC, Warner Bros., ID, Adult Swim, A24, and more. Turn your streaming obsession into a career— we’re hiring!
About Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery is a premier global media and entertainment company. Our Streaming organization builds the products and platform capabilities that help audiences discover, choose, and enjoy great content across connected TV, web, mobile, tablet, and console experiences. Content Discovery sits at the center of that mission, spanning search, recommendations, personalization, ranking, merchandising, and experimentation across a global portfolio of brands and products.
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.
In this role, you will shape the next generation of discovery experiences and services that help users find the right content at the right moment. You will define the strategic direction for a critical product domain, identify high-value customer and business problems, and drive a portfolio of initiatives that improve how users discover and choose content across our global streaming products.
This role requires both strategic range and technical depth. You will operate across near-term optimization and long-term innovation, including evaluating how the latest generation of frontier models can re-imagine our content discovery algorithms, user understanding, and decisioning systems. You will help define where these models can create meaningful step-function improvements, where hybrid approaches are required, and how to bring those capabilities into production in a scalable, measurable, and responsible way.
Your work will influence core customer experiences on a global scale and will be visible to senior leaders across the company.
The ideal candidate
The ideal candidate has deep experience leading product strategy for ML-driven consumer products at scale, particularly in content discovery, search, recommendations, personalization, ranking, or related domains. You have a strong track record of defining strategy in ambiguous spaces, aligning senior stakeholders, and translating complex technical capabilities into products that drive measurable customer and business impact.
You are equally comfortable setting long-term vision, debating technical tradeoffs with engineering and data science, and using experimentation and analysis to sharpen product direction. You bring strong product judgment, high standards, and a clear point of view on how to build simple, effective experiences on top of sophisticated systems.
You also have a forward-looking perspective on how frontier AI models can reshape discovery experiences. You understand both the promise and the practical constraints of applying these models to real-world consumer products, and you can distinguish durable product opportunities from short-lived hype.
What you will do
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.
Preferred qualifications
Experience in streaming media, digital entertainment, ecommerce, marketplace, or other personalization-heavy consumer products.
Experience working with large-scale experimentation platforms, recommender systems, search and ranking platforms, or related ML infrastructure.
Experience presenting product strategy, investment tradeoffs, and business impact to senior executives.
At Warner Bros. Discovery, we are reinventing how people discover and experience television, movies, sports, and news. Content Discovery is central to that transformation. If you are excited to shape the future of discovery through product leadership, machine learning, and frontier AI, we would love to hear from you.
How We Get Things Done…
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.
Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery’s total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $238,455.00 - $442,845.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.If you’re a qualified candidate with an arrest or conviction record, please know that your application will be considered in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
