Senior Technical Account Manager, Global Partner Integrations

Position: Senior Staff Technical Account Manager, Global Partner Integrations
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Warner Bros. has been entertaining audiences for more than 90 years through the world’s most-loved characters and franchises. Warner Bros. employs people all over the world in a wide variety of disciplines. We're always on the lookout for energetic, creative people to join our team.

Your New Role...We are hiring a Senior Staff Technical Account Manager (TAM) to join our team. The Global Partner Integration Team, within the DTC Global Platform Team, owns and manages go-to-market partner integrations, including affiliate-owned set-top box (STB) integrations, for WBD. These integrations focus on back-office systems, such as authentication, authorisation, shared identity, billing, and entitlement services, along with apps deployed on affiliate-owned equipment (set-top boxes, or STBs).

These integrations enable our partners to sell or bundle our services to their customers and allow those customers seamless access across our experiences.

This team works with external affiliates and partners throughout the lifecycle of their integrations, alongside internal Engineering, Distribution, Product, and other stakeholder teams, to not only efficiently launch these integrations, but to also ensure they remain effective throughout the lifetime of the partner relationship.

The ideal candidate has a track record of building high-performance, stable, scalable systems that have been successfully shipped to customers in production. Your work and approach are exemplary: you drive best practices and set standards for your team. You are a key contributor to your organisation and the company's strategy relating to go-to-market partner relationships. You show good judgement, making trade-offs between immediate and long-term business needs.

You are a collaborative partner who makes stakeholders and team members more productive. You are recognised as a leader, mentor others, and have a proven track record of building strategic relationships with external partners.

Your Role Accountabilities...Working with the affiliate from initial technical engagement through to launch is the primary responsibility of the Technical Account Manager (TAM). Senior Staff TAMs are responsible for working with our largest and most strategic partners s are the technical point of contact for partners we are integrating with, and are the voice of the partners to our internal teams.

Technically astute, with the ability to assess a partner's capability to perform an integration accurately.

Works closely with partner teams to thoroughly explain functionality and field all questions quickly and effectively.

Evaluates partners' designs and plans to identify and resolve issues prior to implementation.

Identifies and defines requirements unique to partner integrations or devices, and drives technical negotiation and alignment with partners.

Drives partners to adapt to our standard integration architecture, deciding on a bespoke integration only when standard integration is not achievable.

Works with both internal and external partner engineering teams as necessary, and serves as the subject matter expert (SME) for each integration owned.

Represents the voice of partners, taking a data-driven approach to surface key partner insights and using them to improve our integration experience.

During the integration, partners with our Ops team to verify testing and assists in resolving any identified issues.

Ensures partners stay within the defined strategy of the…