Lead Technical Program Mgr

Job Posting Title:

Lead Technical Program Mgr

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Job Description:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

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 businesses. We 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 think youd love 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 industry norms and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

The Business Operations team helps guide and articulate technology strategy and research and is responsible for driving the day-to-day operation of the Product & Technology organization including: 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 Data Platforms Technical Program Management team is looking for a Lead Program Manager and to drive business-critical data initiatives across multiple teams within Data Platforms and across the Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology portfolio of digital consumer-facing products. This role will partner with Product Management and Engineering to translate business value into actionable plans and execute on the delivery of strategic data initiatives. This role requires technical understanding attention to detail a strong sense of accountability and ownership collaboration and experience managing across highly complex workstream teams. If you are someone who thrives in a collaborative environment jumps at the opportunity to work on impactful and business critical problems and constantly seeks out new challenges then this is a great role for you.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Accountable for driving execution and delivery of extraordinarily high-profile technical data platform projects from start to finish in a fast-paced and complex environment. Programs assigned to this level tend to be of the highest complexity and strategic priority.
• Performs all other responsibilities of a Program Manager at an expert level plus:
• Develop strong partnerships with engineering product management and business partners to drive focus on strategic and tactical program objectives
• Understands all project domain components including architecture tools and deployment practices that development team is employing; can explain the purpose of component decisions at a high level
• Forecasts project risks proactively; analyzes and drives resolution of key project blockers
• Develop and execute change management and communication plans and engage with stakeholders to report progress and raise issues
• Document and communicate key decisions accomplishments problems changes to plan and go forward plans for assigned deliverable(s) to internal and external executive stakeholders
• Ability to lead technical discussions at the organizational level to drive decisions and next steps
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate technical and delivery concepts for a Sr Executive level audience
• Serves as subject matter expert and go to person for guidance in program management discipline
• Defines optimizes and manages Agile project management processes at the team-of-teams level
• Solid grasp of team-of-teams level agile software development lifecycle methodologies principles and practices
• Manage capacity across team-of-teams to balance delivery priorities (business technical maintenance etc.)
• Create a collaborative work environment that cultivates shared understanding transparency mastery autonomy innovation and continuous learning

Required Education Experience/Skills/Training:

• 7 years of practical experience in delivering large-scale data platform projects. Familiar with relevant technological solutions and industry best practices.
• Experience orchestrating execution across multiple business units or organizations with competing priorities translating a broad evolving set of cross-organizational dependencies into a coordinated delivery plan.
• Comfortable building program structure and alignment in ambiguous fast-evolving environments with the ability to sustain execution momentum on a foundational platform initiative over a multi-year horizon.
• Experience with and/or current working knowledge of typical consumer data platforms and service technologies at scale for consumer-facing multi-platform streaming and nonstreaming digital products (OTT/CTV mobile web).
• Demonstrated ability to drive initiatives forward to completion through collaboration and consensus across functional areas.
• Solid orchestration and problem-solving skills with ability to focus both strategically and tactically to achieve project goals.
• Must be capable of managing tracking and troubleshooting multiple projects in a deadlinedriven environment with cross-functional teams vendors and partners.
• Experience building broad large-scale communications plans.
• Love for Data and taking chaos and turning it into something actionable.
• High sense of ownership and a focus on building fast without sacrificing quality.
• Experience in Agile software development with expertise in Scrum methodology and practices.
• Experience with technical Release Management.
• Current knowledge of modern program management analysis and reporting tools such as Jira (including Structure Boards and/or Jira Sheets/JXL) Confluence and Airtable.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP / CSM / CSP Certification with thorough understanding of Scrum Agile Methodologies

Required Education

• Bachelors degree in business management computer science or another related field.

The hiring range for this position in Seattle WA is $163100 - $218700 per year and in Glendale CA is $155700 - $208700 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidates geographic region job-related knowledge skills and experience among other factors. 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:

Seattle WA USA

Alternate City State Region Postal Code:

USA - CA - 1200 Grand Central Ave

Date Posted:

Required Experience:

Manager