Lead Technical Program Mgr

The Walt Disney Company • Glendale, WA

5d • $155,700 - $218,700 • Onsite

About The Position

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Lead Program Manager to join the Data Platforms Technical Program Management team. This role will drive business-critical data initiatives across multiple teams within Data Platforms and the broader Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology portfolio. The position involves partnering with Product Management and Engineering to translate business value into actionable plans and execute strategic data initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess technical understanding, attention to detail, a strong sense of accountability and ownership, collaboration skills, and experience managing complex, workstream teams. This is an opportunity for someone who thrives in a collaborative environment, enjoys impactful and business-critical problems, and seeks new challenges.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior