Senior Principal Product Manager, Content Discovery

Warner Bros. Discovery

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$238,455–$442,845 / yr
Posted
32 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $213k
This role $341k
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This role pays more than 98% of similar roles. Most pay $181,606–$244,625 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $341k versus about $213k for comparable roles.

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About Warner Bros. Discovery

Warner Bros. Discovery is a global media and entertainment company operating a broad portfolio of iconic content and brands including Warner Bros. film studio, HBO, CNN, Discovery Channel, and Max streaming service. Industry: Media & Entertainment

Warner Bros. Discovery currently has 55 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $131,985–$245,115 across 38 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Principal Product Manager, Content Discovery

Senior Principal Product Manager, Content Discovery joins the Content Discovery team to lead strategy, vision, and execution for discovery experiences across global streaming products. This senior individual contributor role involves defining multi-horizon roadmaps for search, recommendations, personalization, ranking, and merchandising. The successful candidate will evaluate how frontier models can re-imagine content discovery algorithms and user understanding while ensuring these capabilities are implemented in a scalable, responsible way. Key responsibilities include identifying high-value customer problems, managing cross-functional stakeholders in engineering, data science, design, and marketing, and utilizing experimentation to drive measurable impact. The role requires deep expertise in ML-driven consumer products, technical fluency regarding model and platform tradeoffs, and experience with large-scale recommender systems. This position solves the critical challenge of helping global audiences find and choose relevant content across various devices through advanced machine learning and AI integration.

What does a Product Manager earn in California?

Median $223300 from 163 postings across 44 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Define and drive the product strategy for Content Discovery to align long-term vision with business goals and user needs.
  • Manage a multi-horizon roadmap covering platform investments, user experience improvements, and next-generation discovery capabilities.
  • Evaluate and integrate frontier AI models to improve search, recommendations, personalization, ranking, and merchandising systems.
  • Partner with engineering, data science, design, and marketing teams to translate strategy into actionable execution plans.
  • Identify and quantify customer pain points through research, experimentation, and data analysis.
  • Establish product principles, success metrics, and experimentation frameworks to measure impact across global platforms.
  • Communicate product vision, technical tradeoffs, and progress reports to both technical teams and executive leadership.
  • Monitor industry trends in AI and machine learning to maintain a competitive advantage in the streaming space.

What we're looking for

  • 15+ years of product management experience including significant senior-level 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 to drive engagement and growth.
  • Strong understanding of experimentation, metric design, and data-informed product development.
  • Technical fluency to engage credibly on model, data, system, and platform tradeoffs.
  • Experience bringing AI or machine learning capabilities into production consumer products at scale.
  • Strong judgment regarding the application of frontier AI models versus traditional approaches in product experiences.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, data science, or a related field.
  • Experience in streaming media, digital entertainment, ecommerce, or marketplace products (preferred).
  • Experience working with large-scale experimentation platforms and recommender systems (preferred).
  • Experience presenting product strategy and investment tradeoffs to senior executives (preferred).

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