Senior Program Lead, Cross-Company Launch Ops

The Walt Disney Company

Glendale (CA)

Remote

USD 178,000 - 281,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Job summary

The Walt Disney Company seeks a Sr. Manager, Program Management to lead launch operations across Disney Digital Entertainment and Epic Games partnerships. You will own milestone planning, establish operating cadences, and deliver executive-level reporting for a multi‑company portfolio.

You will implement scalable processes, drive risk management, and build dashboards and memos to keep senior leaders informed. This remote-optional role demands strategic vision and hands-on execution.

Qualifications

8+ years of program and project management experience in a large corporate, digital, or technology environment.
Proven ability to manage complex, multi-workstream programs in a highly matrixed, multi-company organization.
Expert-level proficiency in program management tooling: Airtable, Jira, Confluence, Miro, Smartsheets, Sharepoint, Teams, Google Workspace, and/or equivalent platforms.
Strong visual communication skills; ability to translate complex program states and risks into clear executive presentations and visual models.
Demonstrated tenacity and comfort with ambiguity; ability to build structure and clarity in a fast-moving environment.
Experience in a senior management-facing or C-suite-adjacent communication role.
Deep affinity with Gaming, Fortnite, Disney content, brands, and IP, and familiarity with Disney's lines of business.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end launch plans for non-gameplay integration workstreams—spanning identity, content, digital rewards, and commerce—defining scope, milestones, resource dependencies, and success criteria.
Coordinate launch readiness across DDE, TWDC lines of business, and Epic Games program teams, ensuring all workstreams are aligned, sequenced, and on track.
Drive a "just enough" process rigor approach that enables teams to move fast while maintaining transparency into program health and risks.
Design and maintain the program operating rhythm: weekly syncs, milestone reviews, dependency tracking, and decision escalation frameworks across 10+ workstreams.
Partner with DDE Production, Epic Program Management, and TWDC PMO functions to ensure cross-company workstreams are coordinated and interdependencies are managed.
Proactively surface trade-offs, sequencing risks, and capacity constraints to the VP and Director in advance of launches.
Develop and maintain executive dashboards, program health metrics, and status reports that give the VP and senior stakeholders clear, real‑time visibility into program progress and risks.
Draft memos, briefings, and visual models that articulate complex cross-workstream decisions with clarity and confidence.
Build and manage stakeholder communication channels across DDE, TWDC divisions, and Epic counterparts to drive alignment and trust.
Implement and continuously improve program management tools, workflows, and standards—including tooling in Airtable, Jira, Confluence, Miro, and Google Workspace.
Develop scalable, extensible processes as the Disney-Epic partnership matures, identifying operational improvements and eliminating friction from cross-team execution.
Evolve a measurement framework that tracks launch readiness, operational KPIs, and progress toward business goals across the program portfolio.
Proactively identify, track, and resolve program risks, issues, cross-company dependencies, and open decisions—driving resolution or escalating with recommendations.
Maintain a living risk register and issue log; communicate status clearly to leadership with options and recommended actions.