Senior Principal Technical Program Manager

Senior Principal Technical Program Manager

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.

The Senior Principal Technical Program Manager is a staff position within the DEE Technology:
Business Operations – Technical Program Management organization. The Senior Principal Technical Program Manager will focus on planning and executing programs of the highest complexity and priority that cut across the DE&E Tech organization, other Disney technology organizations, and external joint venture partners. This role develops and executes functional strategy and plans to achieve key business objectives. The position will be involved in significant work efforts of strategic importance to the organization.

Decisions and actions may impact the way work efforts are run and performed. The program's overall capital budget could range from 20 million to 100+ million.

This position requires expert experience in program, process, and operations management, serving as a subject matter expert for guidance across the entire Technical Program Management team and organization. Ideal candidates must be highly proactive, comfortable with ambiguity, detail-oriented, and able to work autonomously on multiple assignments. This role requires proactively identifying and solving some of the most complex technical initiatives that impact the direction of the business.

This position requires someone who can influence and negotiate with great latitude on outcomes, present and defend complicated or delicate issues, and exercise sensitivity based on the audience. This position will interact with internal and external peers and management to share highly complex information related to areas of expertise. This role will regularly interact with leaders and executives across the company.

Key job responsibilities

• Will be at the forefront of delivering highly complex, industry leading initiatives that will have broad impacts on the Walt Disney company's overall success
• Responsible for staying connected to the details and nuances that make up the program you are responsible for, regardless of where they stem from.
• Solving complex technical problems, setting clear program goals, and resolving conflicts
• Diving deep into technical platforms and their architecture, and understanding the impacts of decisions that are made in the near and long term
• Knowing when to slow down and build scalable platform capabilities versus speeding up and accruing tech debt to reach a specific goal or objective
• Articulating complex technical architecture in a simplistic form and presenting it to both technical and business stakeholders
• Being a thought partner to any role within the company – marketing, product, design, engineering, and program, while also influencing large organizations to meet a collective objective.
• Understanding legal stipulations and boundaries and being able to proactively gauge the impact of any mandates to a program's objectives
• Delivering results despite working in an ambiguous and sometimes highly demanding environment
• Exhibiting a strong bias for action and being able to handle multiple priorities simultaneously
• Defining strategy and turning them into executable road maps for the programs you own
• Responsible for overall coordination, quality, and productivity and will be the primary point of contact for world-wide stakeholders of programs that you run
• Consistently internalize Disney's Leadership Principles, and live those into everyday…