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Senior Product Manager, App Platform
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The Senior Product Manager, App Platform is responsible for shaping and driving the strategy, execution, and evolution of our mobile app platform, ensuring it is scalable, reliable, and efficient across iOS and Android. This role sits at the core of our app ecosystem, enabling feature pods to deliver world‑class user experiences faster and more reliably by providing the frameworks, tools, and infrastructure that power app development. As a senior leader within the product team, you will partner closely with engineering, design, and business stakeholders to define priorities, make data‑driven decisions, and advocate for investments that unlock long‑term business and customer value.
Responsibilities
Define and own the app platform strategy and roadmap, aligning with company goals while balancing platform needs and feature delivery.
Collaborate with engineering leaders to execute projects from start to launch to post‑launch, driving planning, refinement, ticketing, and execution using the agile process.
Define and guide the strategy in partnership with engineering for shared frameworks, SDKs, and architecture patterns, driving consistency, quality, and efficiency across apps.
Partner with engineering leaders to deliver a best‑in‑class developer experience, including CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and testing frameworks that speed up release cycles and reduce friction.
Drive performance and reliability improvements by proactively identifying stability risks, technical debt, and optimization opportunities.
Lead cross‑functional initiatives with feature pods to reduce tech debt, resolve platform bottlenecks, and unlock innovation.
Establish and maintain app security, privacy, and compliance standards to protect users and meet regulatory requirements.
Collaborate with design to establish and evolve mobile design systems, ensuring scalable, accessible, and platform‑consistent user experiences.
Champion and scale experimentation capabilities, including A/B testing frameworks and processes, ensuring decisions are grounded in data and measurable impact.
Develop and present clear, compelling business cases for platform investments to senior leadership, connecting technical decisions to business outcomes.
Stay on top of the latest developments from Apple, Google, and the broader mobile ecosystem, bringing strategic insights into roadmap planning.
Champion accessibility across mobile apps, ensuring compliance with accessibility standards and driving inclusive design practices.
Qualifications & Experience
5+ years of product management experience, with at least 3+ years focused on mobile apps or platform and infrastructure products.
Proven experience owning and driving product strategy and roadmaps with measurable impact on app performance, scalability, or developer productivity.
Deep knowledge of iOS and Android ecosystems, including release processes, app store management, and CI/CD best practices.
Strong background in accessibility, knowledgeable in accessibility standards, testing, and building inclusive experiences.
Strong background in experimentation such as A/B testing, feature flags, and metrics frameworks, with experience making data‑driven product decisions.
Exceptional communicator and storyteller, able to translate complex technical concepts into clear narratives for executives, engineers, and non‑technical stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to lead cross‑functional teams, resolve trade‑offs, and align stakeholders at all levels.
Highly organized, detail‑oriented, and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast‑moving environment.
Hands‑on and curious, with a willingness to dive deep into technical challenges, ask tough questions, and continuously learn.
Genuine passion for mobile apps, with an eye for industry trends and platform innovations such as foldables, Google XR, Vision Pro, and Mac apps.
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, 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.
Compensation Pay Range: $117,600.00 - $218,400.00 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.
EEO Statement 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, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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Senior Product Manager, App Platform
role at
CNN .
The Senior Product Manager, App Platform is responsible for shaping and driving the strategy, execution, and evolution of our mobile app platform, ensuring it is scalable, reliable, and efficient across iOS and Android. This role sits at the core of our app ecosystem, enabling feature pods to deliver world‑class user experiences faster and more reliably by providing the frameworks, tools, and infrastructure that power app development. As a senior leader within the product team, you will partner closely with engineering, design, and business stakeholders to define priorities, make data‑driven decisions, and advocate for investments that unlock long‑term business and customer value.
Responsibilities
Define and own the app platform strategy and roadmap, aligning with company goals while balancing platform needs and feature delivery.
Collaborate with engineering leaders to execute projects from start to launch to post‑launch, driving planning, refinement, ticketing, and execution using the agile process.
Define and guide the strategy in partnership with engineering for shared frameworks, SDKs, and architecture patterns, driving consistency, quality, and efficiency across apps.
Partner with engineering leaders to deliver a best‑in‑class developer experience, including CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and testing frameworks that speed up release cycles and reduce friction.
Drive performance and reliability improvements by proactively identifying stability risks, technical debt, and optimization opportunities.
Lead cross‑functional initiatives with feature pods to reduce tech debt, resolve platform bottlenecks, and unlock innovation.
Establish and maintain app security, privacy, and compliance standards to protect users and meet regulatory requirements.
Collaborate with design to establish and evolve mobile design systems, ensuring scalable, accessible, and platform‑consistent user experiences.
Champion and scale experimentation capabilities, including A/B testing frameworks and processes, ensuring decisions are grounded in data and measurable impact.
Develop and present clear, compelling business cases for platform investments to senior leadership, connecting technical decisions to business outcomes.
Stay on top of the latest developments from Apple, Google, and the broader mobile ecosystem, bringing strategic insights into roadmap planning.
Champion accessibility across mobile apps, ensuring compliance with accessibility standards and driving inclusive design practices.
Qualifications & Experience
5+ years of product management experience, with at least 3+ years focused on mobile apps or platform and infrastructure products.
Proven experience owning and driving product strategy and roadmaps with measurable impact on app performance, scalability, or developer productivity.
Deep knowledge of iOS and Android ecosystems, including release processes, app store management, and CI/CD best practices.
Strong background in accessibility, knowledgeable in accessibility standards, testing, and building inclusive experiences.
Strong background in experimentation such as A/B testing, feature flags, and metrics frameworks, with experience making data‑driven product decisions.
Exceptional communicator and storyteller, able to translate complex technical concepts into clear narratives for executives, engineers, and non‑technical stakeholders.
Demonstrated ability to lead cross‑functional teams, resolve trade‑offs, and align stakeholders at all levels.
Highly organized, detail‑oriented, and comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast‑moving environment.
Hands‑on and curious, with a willingness to dive deep into technical challenges, ask tough questions, and continuously learn.
Genuine passion for mobile apps, with an eye for industry trends and platform innovations such as foldables, Google XR, Vision Pro, and Mac apps.
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, 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.
Compensation Pay Range: $117,600.00 - $218,400.00 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.
EEO Statement 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, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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