Senior Business Analyst

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.$79K — $146K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline; MBA or advanced certification preferred.
  • 5+ years of business analyst or product management experience, preferably in advertising technology, SaaS, or enterprise platforms.
  • Familiarity with campaign management, forecasting, yield optimization, and converged ad systems.
  • Proven ability to conduct stakeholder workshops and gather user stories while validating scope and requirements traceability.
  • Demonstrated success in delivering complex, enterprise-scale product features with measurable user and business impact.
  • Strong communication skills with a knack for collaborating across multiple departments and influencing stakeholders.
  • Experience in modernization initiatives, particularly moving legacy systems to cloud-native platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Manage business and functional requirements through stakeholder interviews, translating needs into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
  • Own and execute feature roadmaps for planning, forecasting, and reporting systems, aligning with monetization and operational efficiency goals.
  • Collaborate with Engineering and Data Science to create scalable, API-driven workflows for high-volume ad impressions.
  • Perform functional testing and document changes based on Proof-of-Concept outcomes and business requirements.
  • Translate needs from advertisers, agencies, and sales into actionable product requirements that enhance productivity and campaign performance.
  • Provide comprehensive walkthroughs of new functionalities tailored to stakeholders' specific regional needs.
  • Ensure continuous alignment of product capabilities with established strategies and revenue priorities.

Benefits

  • Work in an innovative environment that supports next-generation advertising capabilities.
  • Collaborate across a dynamic team of experts in engineering, data science, and sales.
  • Opportunity to influence product enhancements that drive global sales success.
  • Engagement in modernization initiatives for cutting-edge technology solutions.
Full Job Description

Your New Role:

We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst – Converged Advertising to

own and deliver product capabilities that support WBD’s next‑generation

advertising platforms. This role is responsible for collaborating with key

business stakeholders to generate business requirements based on use

cases/user stories across converged planning, forecasting, yield

optimization, and reporting systems, delivered as scalable, cloud‑native

solutions.

The Senior Business Analyst works closely with Product Managers, Sales,

Operations, Engineering, and Data Science to ensure product

requirements are captured accurately, and product capabilities align with

established product strategy, revenue priorities, and advertiser outcomes

within an assigned product domain.

Your Role Accountabilities:

Product Requirements Gathering – Manage business and functional

requirements for one or more business solutions by facilitating stakeholder

interviews and workshops; translating needs into user stories, use cases, and

acceptance criteria; validating scope and assumptions; and maintaining

traceability from requirements through delivery and UAT.

Product Roadmap Execution – Own and execute against feature roadmaps

for converged planning, forecasting, and reporting systems, ensuring delivery

aligns with monetization priorities, operational efficiency, and established

product strategy.

Cross-Functional Collaboration – Collaborate with Engineering, Data

Science, and Client Engineering to deliver scalable, API‑driven workflows

supporting billions of monthly ad impressions across linear and digital

platforms.

Functional Testing – Perform functional testing and document workflow and configuration changes related to system and process adjustments based on Proof-of-

concept outcomes or business requirements.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement – Translate advertiser, agency, and sales

team needs into clear, actionable product requirements; ensure delivered

features improve productivity and campaign performance for global sales

and operations users. Provide a walk thorough of new functionality including

both system functionality and region-specific recommended configuration

and workflow.

Qualifications & Experience

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a

related discipline required; MBA or advanced technical certification a plus.

Product Management Experience: 5+ years of business analyst or product

management experience, preferably within advertising technology, SaaS, or

enterprise platform environments.

AdTech Knowledge: Familiarity with campaign management, forecasting, yield

optimization, and converged linear + digital ad systems.

Requirements Gathering: Demonstrated ability to drive stakeholder workshops,

gather user stories/use cases, acceptance criteria, scope/assumption validation, and requirements traceability through delivery/UAT

Product Delivery: Demonstrated ability to deliver complex, enterprise‑scale product features in partnership with engineering teams, with measurable user adoption and business impact.

Stakeholder Collaboration: Experience gathering business needs and aligning

product execution with revenue objectives, operational efficiency, and client

outcomes.

Communication & Influence: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with

the ability to collaborate effectively across Product, Engineering, Sales, Operations,

and Finance.

Modernization Exposure: Experience contributing to modernization initiatives,

including migration of legacy systems toward cloud‑native platforms.

About Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is an American video game publisher based in Burbank, California, and part of the newly-formed Global Streaming and Interactive Entertainment unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. WBIE was founded on January 14, 2004 under Warner Bros. and transferred to the Home Entertainment division when that company was formed in October 2005. WBIE manages the wholly owned game development studios TT Games, Rocksteady Studios, NetherRealm Studios, Monolith Productions, WB Games Boston, Avalanche Software, and WB Games Montréal, among others.
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