Staff Technical Program Mgr

Building the future of Disney’s 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, Disney’s technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans' connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and 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.

Describe what the person will do in the role - how he/she will impact the organization.

This is a staff position within the DE&E Product & Technology: Business Operations – Technical Program Management organization.

This role will focus on the planning and execution of complex programs that may span several areas, or may cut across the department and other groups within the organization.

They may also assist with the triage of other programs to help form recommendations to senior leadership.

This position requires proven experience in program management. Ideal candidates must be highly proactive, detail-oriented, and able to autonomously work on multiple assignments.

They must be capable of attaining a strong understanding of technical details and clearly communicating schedules, risks, status, and processes to a variety of business and technical audiences.

They must be able to partner closely with project managers and technical leads to coordinate schedules and deliverables.

Drive activities for large, strategic, technically complex, high-priority programs

Develop plans and timelines, accounting for all dependencies

Ensure transparency of progress and issues/risks. Proactively drive risk mitigation and contingency planning, along with issue resolution

Communicate status, updates, and program summaries via presentations, email, and direct communication with key stakeholders and executive leadership

Ensure that all involved parties understand and accept their roles and responsibilities and are held accountable to their deliverables

Facilitate all build activities (including QA and), as per plan

Proactively drive, track, and report on budgets

Perform capacity planning for teams

Collaborate with other program management colleagues to coordinate activities across multiple technology teams

Strong understanding of most program domain technical components, including architecture, tools and deployment practices that development team is employing, including cross-system interactions and dependencies

Track and report key program metrics, informing stakeholders as appropriate

Partner with Product to facilitate advancement of intake pipeline, sometimes helping to triage programs to make recommendations to senior leadership

Independently manage activities and resolve conflict within associated teams, with minimal influence from management

Effortlessly sift through “noise” and facilitate discussions and activities with a laser focus towards results

Navigate the TWDC to effectively drive progress, even when the scope of responsibilities may be unclear

Exemplify leadership characteristics through collaboration, work ethic, and creative thinking. Strive to inspire others and deliver the best possible outputs

Coordinate with external vendors, where applicable

May manage smaller teams of professional employees related to area of focus or expertise

Define, optimize, and manage Agile ceremonies and processes at the team-of-teams level