Manager, Consent Management Platform (24-month Fixed Term)

Get to know The Pokémon Company International

The Pokémon Company International manages the Pokémon property outside of Asia and is responsible for brand management licensing and marketing the Pokémon Trading Card Game the animated TV series home entertainment and the official Pokémon website. Pokémon was launched in Japan in 1996 and today is one of the most popular childrens entertainment properties in the world.

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Get to know the role

• Job Title: Manager Consent Management Platform
• Job Summary: As Manager Consent Management Platform you will lead the small high-impact engineering team responsible for establishing delivering and evolving shared capabilities that enable consistent consent and preference experiences across the Pokémon digital ecosystem. You will lead the roadmap and delivery of the platforms and services that enable this capability including the Preference Center consent-management services and APIs relevant data and identity integrations audit capabilities and the technical controls required to support customer choices across content-driven websites authenticated experiences marketing platforms event systems and other global Pokémon digital initiatives.
• FLSA Classification (US Only): Exempt
• People Manager: Yes

What youll do

• Lead and develop a high-performing team of Software Engineers responsible for delivering and operating shared digital platform capabilities with Consent Management as a primary area of focus.
• Establish and drive the Consent Management capability and platform roadmap translating agreed business fan-experience privacy and regulatory requirements into clear priorities outcomes and delivery plans.
• Create alignment across Product Engineering Privacy Legal Data Governance Marketing Technology and other stakeholders on how consent and preference requirements are translated into consistent digital capabilities and experiences.
• Drive greater consistency in how consent and customer preferences are implemented across fan-facing touch points reducing fragmented approaches and enabling reusable enterprise capabilities.
• Own delivery outcomes for the Consent Management platform and associated shared capabilities providing clear visibility of progress milestones dependencies risks and key performance indicators.
• Partner with senior technical leaders to guide architecture and solution design ensuring platforms are scalable secure reliable and maintainable while supporting the intended fan experience.
• Lead and facilitate cross-functional and multi-team planning to align solution approaches responsibilities dependencies and execution strategies.
• Ensure appropriate consideration of auditability identity data stewardship security and privacy requirements throughout platform design and delivery in partnership with the accountable subject-matter experts.
• Balance investment across new capability development platform modernization operational resilience and technical health.
• Drive exploration and responsible adoption of AI-enabled solutions where they can improve team productivity platform performance quality or delivery outcomes.
• Provide strategic leadership across related platform initiatives contributing to standards operating models and cross-team practices that improve consistency and quality.
• Develop team members through coaching feedback and performance management including development planning and mentoring current and future technical leaders.
• Foster a culture of accountability collaboration continuous improvement and thoughtful innovation encouraging the team to challenge existing approaches where doing so improves business and fan outcomes.

What youll bring

• 25 years of demonstrated experience leading and managing engineering teams or complex technical initiatives.
• 5 years of experience building operating or overseeing modern multitier digital applications and services in production environments.
• Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience designing or leading API-driven platforms that integrate customer experiences identity systems data stores vendor products or enterprise applications.
• Strong understanding of data-management principles including data ownership classification quality lineage retention access control auditability and lifecycle management.
• Working knowledge of consent management customer preferences privacy engineering responsible data use or related data-governance concepts.
• Experience working with cloudnative architectures including containerized workloads (EKS ECS) and managed data stores (RDS DynamoDB) on AWS or comparable cloud platforms.
• Proven ability to lead both teams and projects influence across a highly matrixed organization and effectively resolve organizational and delivery challenges.
• Experience operating in distributed scalable production environments with awareness of monitoring reliability and operational best practices.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage and influence both technical and nontechnical stakeholders at all levels.
• Resultsoriented mindset with a strong customer focus attention to quality and commitment to execution.
• Growth mindset with the ability to adopt new practices and lead their adoption across teams.
• Proficiency with standard productivity and collaboration tools including Microsoft Office Suite and Atlassian products.

Base Salary Range: For this role new hires generally start between $141048 - $187669 per year. The full range is $141048 - $254045 per year. This range is applicable for the labor market where the role is intended to be hired. The final base salary is directly related to the candidates qualifications and professional experience uniquely.

How youll be successful

• Passion for Pokémon: Develops an understanding of the Pokémon brand the impact it has on our people culture business fans and communities and applying that knowledge and passion to everything you do.
• Challenging the Expected: Approaches challenges with curiosity and creativity embracing the possibility of failure as an opportunity to learn something new develop innovative ideas solve complex problems and identify unique opportunities.
• Integrity and Respect: Demonstrates integrity and respect by leading with empathy listening to others seeking out different perspectives and taking personal responsibility for decisions actions and results.
• Dedicated to Quality: Takes ownership to maintain and promote high standards looks for new ways to learn and improve and embraces a growth mindset to seek and apply feedback from others in an effort to continuously improve.
• Building Relationships: Develops and strengthens relationships adopting a team first mentality and working collaboratively to solve problems and meet shared goals.
• Delighting Customers: Listens and understands the interests and needs of our customers and stakeholders making them feel heard and important and embracing these learnings to continue delivering a unique Pokémon experience.

What to expect

• An innovative culture driven by impact delivering meaningful outcomes.
• Company events that celebrate the spirit of Pokémon.
• Competitive cash-based compensation programs.
• 100% employer-paid healthcare premiums for you.
• Generous paid family leave.
• Employer-paid life insurance.
• Employer-paid long and short-term income protection insurance.
• US Employees: 401k Employer Matching.
• UK/IRE/MX Employees: Pension Employer Contributions.
• Fitness reimbursement.
• Commuter benefit.
• LinkedIn learning.
• Comprehensive relocation package for certain roles.
• Hybrid work environment.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this role. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required. Employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time as needed. For roles in the United Kingdom candidates will need the right to some cases and for some roles the Company may be able to arrange a visa. For roles in Ireland this role requires candidates to have the right to live and work in the Republic of Ireland. However we welcome applications from all nationalities and may consider supporting an employment permit application in appropriate and suitable cases.

The Pokémon Company International is committed to the inclusion of all qualified applicants for consideration in our job application process. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete a job application pre-employment testing or a job interview or to otherwise participate in the hiring process please contact the Talent Acquisition team at .