Lead Technical Program Mgr

The Walt Disney Company • Seattle, WA • 10h ago

Technology is at the heart of Disney's 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 Disney's 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 Company's 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 you'd love working here:

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.

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.

This is a Lead Technical Program Manager (TPM) position within the Product & Technology (P&T) Technology Enablement Alliance (TEA). The Lead TPM will play a leadership role in the delivery and enhancements of services and tools related to the internal developer platform - tools and services for scale offered to internal engineers across DEEP&T.

Responsibilities:

A Lead Technical Project Manager (TPM) within TEA reports to the TEA PMO while partnering with the engineering managers for their teams; our TPMs play a critical role in structuring and executing impactful cross-org initiatives. You will have the opportunity to refine our processes around delivery while building a sense of community and engagement within our talented group of engineers. TPMs within DPE have a high degree of technical literacy and a desire to learn more, both within their teams' product space and across the DPE department.

You Will Also:

Drive and delivery high profile, cross org impacting efforts for multiple engineering teams

Enhance stakeholder relationships, understanding and dialogue.

Enhance team throughput by removing roadblocks and leveraging organizational resources while helping to drive teams towards commitments

Foster cross-team coordination and communication

Assist with estimation and planning of team resourcing, in conjunction with engineering team manager

Identify, maintain, and visualize metrics to guide the project lifecycle

Lead agile ceremonies for two teams of highly skilled engineers

Develop fundamental technical understanding of the tools and services vended by your teams

Qualifications:

7+ years of track record creating and growing trusting, lasting professional relationships with diverse stakeholders, maturing team's current engagements and advocating for future work.

Demonstrable experience managing technical projects in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, developing and executing project plans and delivery commitments.

Deep rooted passion and proven track record building motivated and collaborative teams

Detail oriented and excellent communication skills; ability to follow technical discussions and absorb technical documentation

Experience working with distributed teams and/or distributed organizations

Working understanding of AWS and cloud based development and a desire to know more

Bachelor's degree required

Preferred Qualifications:

Degree in STEM and / or experience as a software engineer

Exposure to modern DevOps and SRE practices around CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Availability, etc

Experience with containers/microservices in highly scalable cloud-based applications

The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA and in New York, NY is $163,100.00 to $218,700.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's 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 ID: 10138563

Location: Seattle,Washington

Job Posting Company: Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

The Walt Disney Company and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, email Candidate.Accommodations@Disney.com with your request. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or correspondence. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.

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