Lead Technical Program Manager

Lead Technical Program Manager (Req : )

Disney Entertainment & 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.

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.

This is a staff position within the DE&E Product & Technology:
Business Operations – Technical Program Management organization. The Technical Program Manager will focus on the planning and execution of program deliverables within the Advertising alliance, with the potential to facilitate programs that cut across the department and other groups within the organization. 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.

• Accountable for driving execution and delivery of a set of software development deliverables from start to finish.
• Define, optimize, and manage Agile project management ceremonies and processes for large project teams.
• Leverage experience with Agile and Scrum to lead teams to successful delivery.
• Lead delivery teams through the identification and management of risks and the resolution of issues, and escalating to management as appropriate.
• Facilitate team ceremonies and meetings/workshops with groups of people beyond the immediate delivery team.
• Drive workshops/meetings to conclusion and/or actionable outcome, ensuring group participation.
• Identify scope of inputs and outputs as dependencies for technical teams, resolve gaps, and create program milestones that ensure work is sequenced across teams.
• Identify risks; drive resolutions and communicate prioritized mitigation plans to stakeholders.
• Monitor and adjust plans to respond to unplanned changes, ensuring programs are progressing to meet business goals.
• Monitor and report on team metrics around delivery.
• Quickly solve complex problems in a challenging, dynamic environment with minimal direction.
• Provide frequent and transparent communication to the business and technical senior management, delivery teams and stakeholders regarding initiative health, issues, and risks.
• Demonstrate solid proficiency of technical project/program domain and be able to confidently discuss with project team, partner teams, and stakeholders.
• Clearly articulate technical risks without the aid of engineering support.
• Analyze and facilitate decisions around technical challenges with some direction.
• Effectively communicate complex and/or difficult information to both technical and non-technical audiences, including executives.
• Interact with internal and external peers, initiative stakeholders, and managers to…