Manager, Technical Program Management
Disney
Manager, Technical Program Management
Job Description
Job Summary:
Business Operations is responsible for global program and project management, capital and portfolio management, resource prioritization, tracking and communication of performance, administrative services, AOP & LRP Planning, Space Management, and other key functions critical to the operation of the Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology (DE&EPT) division.
The Global Program Management team for the Streaming Alliance is working product, engineering, design and engineering services teams to invent unparalleled and inspirational digital experiences that entertain and deeply connect consumers to the world’s greatest storytelling and events.
Job Summary:
The Manager, Technical Program Management, will lead the App Foundation fleet within the Streaming Alliance, which is responsible for integrating work from across the Alliance to build and ship Disney+ apps. This position also includes managing a team of 7 TPMs focused on Apple and Android client platforms. This position requires proven experience managing a team of professional employees and in program management. Ideal candidates must be highly proactive, detail-oriented, and work on multiple assignments that may span the department autonomously. They must be capable of clearly communicating schedules, risks, status, and processes to various business and technical audiences. They must partner with program and project managers and technical leads outside their area to coordinate schedules and deliverables.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
Key Responsibilities:
- Works with senior leadership, stakeholders, partners and delivery teams to track and maintain a program-level view of initiatives
- Develops delivery plans of complex projects and programs
- Ensures key roles and responsibilities are defined and holds functional managers accountable for their teams’ deliverables
- Identifies and manages program-level issues and risks and drives decision making and escalations
- Communicates program and roadmap status, schedule updates, and ensure all aligns to program financials
- Manages and mentors a team of Technical Program Managers
Basic Qualifications
- 8+ years' experience in technical Program Management
- Experience managing a team of Project and Program Managers in Agile delivery
- Demonstrated ability to define at scale a structure for efficient delivery of complex projects
- Demonstrated ability to drive initiatives forward to completion through collaboration and consensus across functional areas
- Must be capable of managing, tracking and troubleshooting multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment with cross-functional teams, vendors and partners
- Self-starter that can autonomously drive multiple work streams inter-departmentally
- Ability to develop program schedules, communicate deadlines, and enforce budgets and project milestones
- Proficient in use of project management and documentation tools
- High tolerance for ambiguity and working in a matrixed organization
- Able to analyze scheduling, budgetary and resourcing data to develop contingency and risk mitigation plans
- Agile, resource management, and financial experience
The hiring range for this position in New York City and Seattle is $159,500.00 to $213,900.00 per year and in San Francisco is $166,800.00 to $223,600.00 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.
About Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:
At Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, we’re blending imagination and innovation to reimagine the ways people experience and engage with the world’s most beloved stories and products. Our work is wide-ranging and deeply sophisticated. We create amazing experiences, transform the future of media, and build products and platforms that enable the connection between people everywhere and the stories and sports they love.
Disney’s ability to marry world-class technology with one-of-a-kind creativity makes us unique. It is at the heart of our past, present, and future. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers.
About The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.
This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.
Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.
DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION FOR EMPLOYMENT APPLICATIONS
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, visit the Disney candidate disability accommodations FAQs. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.
Having technical issues? View the FAQs for help.
Locations
- Location New York, New York, United States / San Francisco
Salary
159,500 - 223,600 USD / yearly
Skills Required
- Proven experience managing a team of professional employees and in program managementintermediate
- Highly proactive and detail-orientedintermediate
- Capable of clearly communicating schedules, risks, status, and processes to various business and technical audiencesintermediate
- Must partner with program and project managers and technical leads outside their area to coordinate schedules and deliverablesintermediate
- Capable of managing, tracking and troubleshooting multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment with cross-functional teams, vendors and partnersintermediate
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years' experience in technical Program Management (experience)
- Experience managing a team of Project and Program Managers in Agile delivery (experience)
- Demonstrated ability to define at scale a structure for efficient delivery of complex projects (experience)
- Demonstrated ability to drive initiatives forward to completion through collaboration and consensus across functional areas (experience)
- Proficient in use of project management and documentation tools (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- High tolerance for ambiguity and working in a matrixed organization (experience)
- Agile, resource management, and financial experience (experience)
- Self-starter that can autonomously drive multiple work streams inter-departmentally (experience)
- Ability to develop program schedules, communicate deadlines, and enforce budgets and project milestones (experience)
- Able to analyze scheduling, budgetary and resourcing data to develop contingency and risk mitigation plans (experience)
Responsibilities
- Works with senior leadership, stakeholders, partners and delivery teams to track and maintain a program-level view of initiatives
- Develops delivery plans of complex projects and programs
- Ensures key roles and responsibilities are defined and holds functional managers accountable for their teams’ deliverables
- Identifies and manages program-level issues and risks and drives decision making and escalations
- Communicates program and roadmap status, schedule updates, and ensure all aligns to program financials
- Manages and mentors a team of Technical Program Managers
Benefits
- general: Full range of medical benefits
- general: Financial benefits
- general: Bonus and/or long-term incentive units
- general: Other benefits dependent on the level and position offered
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Manager, Technical Program Management
Disney
Manager, Technical Program Management
Job Description
Job Summary:
Business Operations is responsible for global program and project management, capital and portfolio management, resource prioritization, tracking and communication of performance, administrative services, AOP & LRP Planning, Space Management, and other key functions critical to the operation of the Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product & Technology (DE&EPT) division.
The Global Program Management team for the Streaming Alliance is working product, engineering, design and engineering services teams to invent unparalleled and inspirational digital experiences that entertain and deeply connect consumers to the world’s greatest storytelling and events.
Job Summary:
The Manager, Technical Program Management, will lead the App Foundation fleet within the Streaming Alliance, which is responsible for integrating work from across the Alliance to build and ship Disney+ apps. This position also includes managing a team of 7 TPMs focused on Apple and Android client platforms. This position requires proven experience managing a team of professional employees and in program management. Ideal candidates must be highly proactive, detail-oriented, and work on multiple assignments that may span the department autonomously. They must be capable of clearly communicating schedules, risks, status, and processes to various business and technical audiences. They must partner with program and project managers and technical leads outside their area to coordinate schedules and deliverables.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
Key Responsibilities:
- Works with senior leadership, stakeholders, partners and delivery teams to track and maintain a program-level view of initiatives
- Develops delivery plans of complex projects and programs
- Ensures key roles and responsibilities are defined and holds functional managers accountable for their teams’ deliverables
- Identifies and manages program-level issues and risks and drives decision making and escalations
- Communicates program and roadmap status, schedule updates, and ensure all aligns to program financials
- Manages and mentors a team of Technical Program Managers
Basic Qualifications
- 8+ years' experience in technical Program Management
- Experience managing a team of Project and Program Managers in Agile delivery
- Demonstrated ability to define at scale a structure for efficient delivery of complex projects
- Demonstrated ability to drive initiatives forward to completion through collaboration and consensus across functional areas
- Must be capable of managing, tracking and troubleshooting multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment with cross-functional teams, vendors and partners
- Self-starter that can autonomously drive multiple work streams inter-departmentally
- Ability to develop program schedules, communicate deadlines, and enforce budgets and project milestones
- Proficient in use of project management and documentation tools
- High tolerance for ambiguity and working in a matrixed organization
- Able to analyze scheduling, budgetary and resourcing data to develop contingency and risk mitigation plans
- Agile, resource management, and financial experience
The hiring range for this position in New York City and Seattle is $159,500.00 to $213,900.00 per year and in San Francisco is $166,800.00 to $223,600.00 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.
About Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:
At Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, we’re blending imagination and innovation to reimagine the ways people experience and engage with the world’s most beloved stories and products. Our work is wide-ranging and deeply sophisticated. We create amazing experiences, transform the future of media, and build products and platforms that enable the connection between people everywhere and the stories and sports they love.
Disney’s ability to marry world-class technology with one-of-a-kind creativity makes us unique. It is at the heart of our past, present, and future. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers.
About The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.
This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.
Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.
DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION FOR EMPLOYMENT APPLICATIONS
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, visit the Disney candidate disability accommodations FAQs. We will only respond to those requests that are related to the accessibility of the online application system due to a disability.
Having technical issues? View the FAQs for help.
Locations
- Location New York, New York, United States / San Francisco
Salary
159,500 - 223,600 USD / yearly
Skills Required
- Proven experience managing a team of professional employees and in program managementintermediate
- Highly proactive and detail-orientedintermediate
- Capable of clearly communicating schedules, risks, status, and processes to various business and technical audiencesintermediate
- Must partner with program and project managers and technical leads outside their area to coordinate schedules and deliverablesintermediate
- Capable of managing, tracking and troubleshooting multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment with cross-functional teams, vendors and partnersintermediate
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years' experience in technical Program Management (experience)
- Experience managing a team of Project and Program Managers in Agile delivery (experience)
- Demonstrated ability to define at scale a structure for efficient delivery of complex projects (experience)
- Demonstrated ability to drive initiatives forward to completion through collaboration and consensus across functional areas (experience)
- Proficient in use of project management and documentation tools (experience)
Preferred Qualifications
- High tolerance for ambiguity and working in a matrixed organization (experience)
- Agile, resource management, and financial experience (experience)
- Self-starter that can autonomously drive multiple work streams inter-departmentally (experience)
- Ability to develop program schedules, communicate deadlines, and enforce budgets and project milestones (experience)
- Able to analyze scheduling, budgetary and resourcing data to develop contingency and risk mitigation plans (experience)
Responsibilities
- Works with senior leadership, stakeholders, partners and delivery teams to track and maintain a program-level view of initiatives
- Develops delivery plans of complex projects and programs
- Ensures key roles and responsibilities are defined and holds functional managers accountable for their teams’ deliverables
- Identifies and manages program-level issues and risks and drives decision making and escalations
- Communicates program and roadmap status, schedule updates, and ensure all aligns to program financials
- Manages and mentors a team of Technical Program Managers
Benefits
- general: Full range of medical benefits
- general: Financial benefits
- general: Bonus and/or long-term incentive units
- general: Other benefits dependent on the level and position offered
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