Walt Disney
Location
Burbank, CA | United States
Job description
On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology (DEET), we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to improve flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
Innovation: We develop and complete groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.
This is a Senior Technical Program Manager position within the DE&E Technology: Business Operations - Global Program Management organization. The Senior Technical Program Manager will focus on the planning and execution of a programs in the Engineering Services organization inside (DEET) business unit. Engineering Services is responsible for designing, building, and sustaining technology that powers DE&E Technology applications that enable streaming services and digital products to deliver networks, content, and advertising to hundreds of millions of consumers around the globe. More importantly, this position will focus on initiatives that span outside of Engineering Services and how they partner with Media Engineering, and Platform and Data Engineering.
This position requires proven experience in program management. Ideal candidates must be highly proactive, detail-oriented, possess the ability to work through unknowns, identify paths to success to ensure delivery, and able to autonomously work on multiple assignments that span the department. They must be capable of digging into technical details and clearly communicating schedules, risks, status, and processes to a variety of business and technical audiences. They must be able to partner with closely with project managers and technical leads to coordinate schedules and deliverables.
Responsibilities:
Lead and/or oversee the delivery of projects from concept to completion by collaborating with engineering teams, product management and developing detailed project plans from development to deployment
Facilitate technical meetings; follow the discussions in order to summarize and capture outcomes
Track team progress against deliverables and work with the team to identify solutions to get back on-track when the team falls behind schedule
Work with the development team to create delivery timelines of feature sets for projects, and partner across various workstreams and business leaders to sequence the work based on priorities
Collaborate with other TPMs to understand cross-team dependencies, prioritize the work to avoid impediments, identify single points of failure for discussion and decision
Attend project meetings and communicate program progress against defined milestones and delivery risks to various levels of executive leadership.
Ensure transparency of progress and issues/risks. Proactively drive risk mitigation and contingency planning, along with issue resolution
Ensure that all involved parties understand and accept their roles and responsibilities
Track and report key program metrics, informing stakeholders as appropriate
Ability to handle multiple team requests and balance that against competing priorities and committed work
Partner with finance teams to integrate all activity against milestones to not only spend but also cost savings both projected and recognized
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
Qualifications :
5+ years of experience managing large-scale, strategic, software development programs in a well-established global technology organization
Proven experience in working in complex, matrixed environment managing multiple stakeholders
Strong ability to articulate complex processes
Demonstrated ability with Agile project management in a hands-on role Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and growing transparency
Technical knowledge of architecture and development practices
Experience in leading teams through improvement through process re-engineering
Excellent people management skills, including the ability to influence various audience and various levels
Demonstrated tenacity and comfortable with ambiguity
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Must understand the impact of injecting requests to the team's backlog
Tools expert including Atlassian Suite and desktop tools: Keynote, Powerpoint and google suite
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