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Principal Product Manager, Product Compliance

Employer
Warner Bros. Discovery
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
6 Feb 2022

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Overview

About Discovery


Discovery is the global leader in real life entertainment, serving passionate fans around the world with content that inspires, informs, and entertains. Discovery delivers over 8,000 hours of original programming each year across deeply loved content genres. Available in 220 countries and territories and 50 languages, Discovery is a platform innovator, reaching viewers on all screens and services, from linear, free-to-air, and pay–TV channels, to digital products and streaming services, to social and mobile-first content and formats. Discovery’s portfolio of premium brands includes Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Investigation Discovery, Travel Channel, Motortrend, Animal Planet, Science Channel, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, and discovery+, a premium streaming services for many of Discovery’s beloved brands.

About the team


Discovery's Direct to Consumer group is a rapidly growing organization focused on developing new, innovative, and immersive digital products and content for iconic brands, including discovery+. We are working at the crossroads of technology, entertainment, and everyday utility. We tell engaging stories to millions of viewers across the Internet every day and bring new interactive experiences to life to not only entertain but improve the lives of our customers. Critical to this mission is ensuring that our customers can trust that we will hold a high bar for data privacy, accessibility, and local regulatory requirements in each region where our services are available. Discovery’s Product Compliance team sits within the Direct to Consumer organization, with a mission to ensure our digital products meet all legal and compliance requirements to safely and effectively operate in all available markets worldwide.
 

Position Summary


We are hiring a Principal Product Manager to lead the development and management of compliance-related features with the best customer experience and Discovery’s values in mind. This role reports directly to the Head of Global Compliance and will have a growing portfolio of product ownership. As a Principal Product Manager on the Product Compliance team, you will collaborate with Legal, Product, UX, and Engineering partners to ensure that our services meet all legal and regulatory requirements. This includes owning and building features for compliance areas such as accessibility, data privacy, digital rights management, parental controls, and more. You will work on the cutting edge of emerging tech and policy in a rapidly growing media space. If you are passionate about building meaningful customer experiences at scale, join our purpose-driven team.

 

What you will do:

 

  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, Business, Privacy, and Legal stakeholders to determine legal and compliance requirements and technical capabilities.
  • Lead the product planning, development, and roadmap for legal and regulatory compliance driven product feature areas such as data privacy, accessibility, and parental controls.
  • Develop and drive risk assessments and prioritization frameworks for product compliance initiatives.
  • Serve as primary subject matter expert on EU regulatory requirements across Discovery’s digital product lines.
  • Collaborate with regional stakeholders to understand and document regional and country specific compliance requirements. Translate those into transparent and scalable customer experiences.
  • Act as lead contact for compliance related inquiries, project managing response actions across internal teams.
  • Own executive reporting on key goals and metrics for your projects.
  • Develop audit and customer feedback strategy for legal and compliance issues.
  • Advise and train product and engineering teams on building privacy by design into all launches.
  • Proactively identify potential risk areas and opportunities for driving cross-functional collaboration in these areas.

 

What you will need to have:

 

  • Extensive experience in Product Management or Data Governance within Technology, Media, or relevant industries, preferably working on compliance driven products.
  • BA/BS in business or technical field. Advanced degree in Business/Technology/Data Management/Law is a plus.
  • Strong understanding of data collection, tracking and data structures.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Experience conducting risk assessments for compliance related issues.
  • Familiarity with GDPR, CCPA, COPA, age restrictions is strongly preferred.
  • Experience developing solutions for digital rights management (DRM) strongly preferred.
  • Knowledge and experience with Accessibility and Closed Captioning preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross functional teams to deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong attention to detail and proven track record of driving process improvements.
  • Experience with video and streaming subscription products is a plus

Company

The most innovative ideas and solutions come from the widest range of thoughts and ideas –and it is our people who distinguish us. The diverse minds, experiences, cultures and unique points of view of our employees give Discovery a competitive advantage.” David Zaslav, President and CEO

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