VP, Sports Engineering

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.$301K — $500K+*
Media
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of software engineering experience with 8+ years in leadership roles overseeing global teams.
  • Strong technical knowledge in web, mobile applications, and services with architectural expertise.
  • Ability to deliver high-performance solutions while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related field.
  • Proven leadership skills in influencing change, developing team capabilities, and aligning cross-functional objectives.
  • Exceptional communication skills for engaging stakeholders and executives with professionalism.
  • Passion for sports and technology in the context of digital fan engagement is preferred.
  • Willingness to travel as needed.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Bleacher Report Sports experience across Web, iOS, and Android platforms, ensuring optimal performance and innovation.
  • Cultivate a culture of engineering ownership and build strategic relationships with stakeholders to align organizational goals.
  • Provide hands-on leadership guiding design, engineering planning, and delivery while developing a high-performing team.
  • Champion operational excellence by defining metrics and establishing incident management processes for system resilience.
  • Implement rigorous quality assurance and performance monitoring for reliability of apps and infrastructure.
  • Collaborate across product, design, and marketing teams to prioritize impactful architecture and features.
  • Drive customer experience improvements focusing on functionality, usability, and simplicity.

Benefits

  • Health insurance coverage.
  • Employee wellness program.
  • Life and disability insurance.
  • Retirement savings plan.
  • Paid holidays, sick time, and vacation.
Full Job Description
About the Opportunity

We are looking for an accomplished and visionary engineering leader to lead Bleacher Report Sports at WBD, shaping the future of sports technology in a dynamic and rapidly evolving digital landscape. As an engineering and strategic leader, you will oversee complex, cross-functional engineering teams, driving clarity, alignment, and accountability across our global technology platform. Your balanced understanding of business and technology will guide the organization toward innovative solutions, while your hands-on leadership ensures a best-in-class product experience for millions of sports fans. You will set and achieve ambitious strategic goals, inspire and motivate high-performing teams, and foster an environment focused on continuous improvement, exceptional delivery, and operational excellence.

Role Expectations

Lead and manage the Bleacher Report Sports experience across Web, iOS, Android, and platform services, driving seamless performance and continuous innovation. Cultivate a culture of strong engineering ownership while building and maintaining strategic relationships with key stakeholders to align organizational goals. Provide hands-on, player-coach leadership-guiding design, architecture, engineering planning, feature delivery, and operational excellence-while developing and growing a high-performing team of leaders, managers, and individual contributors to support the global platform's scaling needs. Champion operational excellence by defining key metrics, establishing alerting and incident management processes that ensure system resilience and adaptability. Implement rigorous quality assurance, load testing, and performance monitoring to maintain high reliability of apps, services, and infrastructure. Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Design, Content/Marketing, and Digital Platform teams to prioritize and deliver impactful architecture and feature initiatives. Drive a world-class customer experience by continuously improving functionality, usability, and simplicity.

Qualifications
  • 15+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 8 years in leadership roles, with proven success in leading senior engineering managers and individual contributors across global teams.
  • Strong technical knowledge and architectural expertise in Web, Mobile Apps, and Services.
  • Proven ability to deliver high-performance solutions while effectively managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a related technical field.
  • Strong leadership and people management skills, including influencing without authority, driving change, demonstrating empathy, developing leaders, improving processes, and aligning cross-functional teams.
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management abilities to engage with seniormost executives, internal teams, and external stakeholders with professionalism and discretion.
  • Passion for sports, technology, and the evolving landscape of digital fan engagement is preferred.
  • Willingness to travel as required.


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.

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery's total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $301,700.00 - $560,300.00 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.

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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