Staff Product Manager - Personalization & Recommendations at Warner Bros. Discovery | Bellevue, US | Rezi

Staff Product Manager - Personalization & Recommendations at Warner Bros. Discovery

Staff Product Manager - Personalization & Recommendations

Warner Bros. Discovery · Bellevue, US

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Staff Product Manager - Personalization & Recommendations

Warner Bros. Discovery · Bellevue, US

2 days ago
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About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Product Manager to lead the development and enhancement of our personalization services. Your expertise and leadership will guide the direction of personalized and automate recommendations, ensuring they remain at the forefront of industry trends and customer expectations. Your efforts will help us scale to >100m customers and become the leading streaming company.

Responsibilities

  • Define Strategy: Own the end-to-end product strategy for ML-powered personalization and discovery. Identify opportunities that align with WBD’s strategic goals and improve engagement, retention, and viewer satisfaction.
  • Drive Roadmap: Lead roadmap development for personalization systems, coordinating closely with engineering, data science, UX, and content teams to prioritize initiatives that balance innovation, quality, and speed.
  • Evolve the User Experience: Champion customer-centricity by leveraging experimentation, user research, and behavioral data to design and optimize personalized experiences across surfaces.
  • Orchestrate Systems Thinking: Manage complex ranking systems and feedback loops. Understand how data (user signals, content metadata) flows through algorithms and influences outcomes across product surfaces.
  • Stakeholder Leadership: Partner with executives, engineering leaders, data teams, and content strategists to align roadmaps, communicate outcomes, and translate vision into action.
  • Benchmark and Differentiate: Monitor trends in personalization, ML tooling, and competitors’ discovery experiences to inform roadmap priorities and strategic pivots.
  • Measure Impact: Define KPIs that align with both user value and business metrics (e.g., engagement, diversity, and relevance). Use experimentation and analytics to optimize performance and guide iteration.
  • Launch & Iterate: Lead go-to-market for major personalization capabilities, ensuring internal readiness, high-quality rollout, and learning-based iteration cycles.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of product management experience, with significant time spent on ML-driven products or content discovery systems.
  • Proven track record of shipping consumer-facing personalization or recommendation systems at scale.
  • Strong technical fluency—able to engage meaningfully with engineering and data science on ranking models, data pipelines, and ML evaluation.
  • Deep understanding of A/B testing methodologies, statistical analysis, and product experimentation frameworks.
  • Systems thinker who can connect the dots between algorithmic performance, customer experience treatments, and business outcomes.
  • Excellent communicator who can synthesize complexity for a range of audiences, from executives to junior engineers.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams in agile environments; familiarity with tools like Jira and Confluence.

Skills

  • Machine Learning
  • Recommenders
  • Streaming media
  • E-commerce
  • Product Management
  • A/B testing
  • Statistical analysis
  • Product experimentation frameworks
  • Jira
  • Confluence

Experience Level

  • Staff

Education Level

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (preferred but not required)

Salary/Compensations

  • $147,000.00 - $273,000.00 salary per year

Benefits

  • Thoughtfully curated benefits
  • Health insurance coverage
  • Employee wellness program
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Paid holidays and sick time and vacation
  • Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards.

About the Company

  • Warner Bros. Discovery is home to iconic content and beloved brands.
  • 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.
  • HBO Max delivers boundary-pushing stories across genres and platforms, connecting millions of viewers across 90 countries globally.
  • 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.

Equal Opportunity

  • 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.
  • 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.