Senior Technical Program Manager

The Walt Disney Company • Burbank, CA

9d • Onsite

About The Position

At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible, possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences. The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. Our group drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7+ years of relevant work experience.
• Minimum 2+ years’ experience in a technical engineering role: software, data or systems engineering.
• 5+ years experience in technical product or program management.
• Proven experience driving highly strategic programs, large scale application/data deployments, managing software or data development lifecycles, and resolving issues that impact product success.
• Ability to work with large data sets for analysis and interpretation of business results.
• Experienced in SCRUM/Lean Agile frameworks with an MVP/iterative approach.
• Ability to influence, take calculated risks, make sound business decisions, and resolve concerns as needed.
• Excellent interpersonal, business development, and communication skills (both written & verbal for both technical and non-technical audiences).
• Positive can-do partnership demeanor while working with cross-functional teams and business units.
• Proven ability to develop and deliver presentations geared for Senior and Executive Management.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience using Azure DevOps for work item management.
• Certification in one or more cloud providers (AWS, Google, Azure).

Responsibilities

• Understand technical requirements across multiple development teams to build one platform schedule.
• Manage engineering, technical, and procurement activities related to planning, executing, supervising, and controlling technical and operational aspects.
• Manage program financials and funding models.
• Support executive communications, status reports, and reviews.
• Use data to identify opportunities and build hypotheses worthy of prioritization.
• Perform market and industry analysis of trends and conditions for products, platforms, and features for the relevant product line.
• Ensure business rhythm is established that corrals both customer sentiment feedback, as well as customer data that enables prioritization requests and enhancements for the product line.
• Use an Agile framework, specifically with an MVP and iterative approach.
• Champion organization-wide processes and best practices related to ideation, delivery, prioritization, and customer engagement.

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