Senior Principal Technical Program Manager (Director Level)

Job Posting Title:

Senior Principal Technical Program Manager (Director Level)

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Job Description:

Technology is at the heart of Disneys past present and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers product developers designers technologists data scientists and more all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disneys media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products enhance storytelling and drive velocity innovation and scalability for our are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Companys media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Here are a few reasons why we thinkyoudlove working here:

Building the future of Disneys media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms that will power our media advertising and distribution businesses for years to come.

Reach Scale & Impact: More than ever Disneys technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans connections with the companys brands and stories. Disney. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC Newsand many more. These products and brands and the unmatched stories storytellers and events they carry matter to millions of people globally.

Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industrynorms andsolve complex and distinctive technical problems.

The Business Operations team helps guide and articulate technology strategy andresearch andis responsible for driving the day-to-day operation of the Product & Technology organizationincluding:project and portfolio management and tracking; organization-level capital space and resource management and allocation;process management; technical incident management; and our administrative and workplace experience support team.

Job Summary:

The Senior Principal Technical Program Manager is a Director/IC role within the DEE Technology: Business Operations Technical Program Management organization.

The Senior Principal Technical Program Manager will focus on planning and executing programs of the highest complexity and priority that cut across the DE&E Tech organization other Disney technology organizations and external joint venture partners. This role develops and executes functional strategy and plans to achieve key business objectives. The position will be involved in significant work efforts of strategic importance to the organization. Decisions and actions may impact the way work efforts are run and performed. The programs overall capital budget could range from 20 million to 100 million.

This position requires expert experience in program process and operations management serving as a subject matter expert for guidance across the entire Technical Program Management team and organization. Ideal candidates must be highly proactive comfortable with ambiguity detail-oriented and able to work autonomously on multiple assignments. This role requires proactively identifying and solving some of the most complex technical initiatives that impact the direction of the business. This position requires someone who can influence and negotiate with great latitude on outcomes present and defend complicated or delicate issues and exercise sensitivity based on the audience. This position will interact with internal and external peers and management to share highly complex information related to areas of expertise. This role will regularly interact with leaders and executives across the company.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

The role will require constant balance between long term product vision along with addressing immediate needs driving an incremental approach that is metrics and data driven. It will require communicating effectively with senior executive leaders on a regular basis while ensuring that the teams are aligned and stakeholders are aware of key performance indicators.

Key job responsibilities

• Will be at the forefront of delivering highly complex industry leading initiatives that will have broad impacts on the Walt Disney companys overall success
• Responsible for staying connected to the details and nuances that make up the program you are responsible for regardless of where they stem from.
• Solving complex technical problems setting clear program goals and resolving conflicts
• Diving deep into technical platforms and their architecture and understanding the impacts of decisions that are made in the near and long term
• Knowing when to slow down and build scalable platform capabilities versus speeding up and accruing tech debt to reach a specific goal or objective
• Articulating complex technical architecture in a simplistic form and presenting it to both technical and business stakeholders
• Being a thought partner to any role within the company marketing product design engineering and program while also influencing large organizations to meet a collective objective.
• Understanding legal stipulations and boundaries and being able to proactively gauge the impact of any mandates to a programs objectives
• Delivering results despite working in an ambiguous and sometimes highly demanding environment
• Exhibiting a strong bias for action and being able to handle multiple priorities simultaneously
• Defining strategy and turning them into executable road maps for the programs you own
• Responsible for overall coordination quality and productivity and will be the primary point of contact for world-wide stakeholders of programs that you run
• Consistently internalize Disneys Leadership Principles and live those into everyday practices to guide your programs and teammates to success
• Focusing on fiscal responsibility and ensuring that spend is accurately tracked programs are within the allocated budget and that any variances are clearly articulated and justified
• Leading the charge on defining and exhibiting program management excellence with the goal of maturing the overall organizations capabilities
• Communicating frequently to all levels of the organization and being the source of truth for program health
• Exemplifying leadership characteristics through collaboration work ethic and creative thinking. Strive to inspire others and deliver the best possible outputs.

Required Education Experience/Skills/Training:

Minimum

• 12 years of experience managing large-scale strategic high-priority software development programs in a well-established global technology organization.
• Expert ability to facilitate effective communication across disparate teams
• Proven success leading complex cross-functional projects & programs driving alignment across Product Engineering TPM and other functions while improving execution speed scalability and delivery outcomes.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills with a knack for fostering collaboration and an ability to synthesize information for high-level decision-makers
• Evidence of stellar planning delivery and problem-solving skills
• Superb written and verbal communication presentation skills and meeting facilitation skills (especially when working with senior leadership)
• BA/BS or equivalent experience required; MBA preferred.

The base salary for this position in San Francisco CA is $227200.00-$304700.00. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package in addition to the full range of medical financial and/or other benefits dependent on the level and position offered.

Job Posting Segment:

Business Operations

Job Posting Primary Business:

BO - Global Program Management

Primary Job Posting Category:

Project Management Tech

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City State Region Postal Code:

San Francisco CA USA

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Required Experience:

Director