Senior Tech Program Manager — Ad Platforms (Global)

Disney Entertainment; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 131,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Technical Program Manager in the Business Operations – Global Program Management group to plan and execute complex Ad Platforms programs. You will partner with product managers and technical leads to coordinate schedules, deliverables, and dependencies across teams.

The role requires proactive, detail-oriented work and the ability to communicate schedules, risks, and progress to business and technical audiences.

Qualifications

• BA/BS or equivalent experience required.
• 5+ years of experience managing large-scale, strategic software development programs in a global technology organization.
• Proven ability to facilitate effective communication across disparate teams.
• Expertise in Agile or Waterfall program management methods (Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile).
• Evidence of strong planning, delivery, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communications, presentation skills, and meeting facilitation with senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Drive activities for large, strategic, technically complex programs.
• Develop plans and timelines, accounting for all dependencies.
• Ensure transparency of progress and issues/risks; drive risk mitigation and contingency planning.
• Communicate status, updates, and program summaries to stakeholders and executives.
• Ensure all parties understand roles and are accountable for deliverables.
• Facilitate all build activities (including QA) as per plan.
• Proactively track and report on budgets.
• Perform capacity planning for teams.
• Collaborate with other program management colleagues across tech teams.
• Understand architecture, tools and deployment practices used by the development teams.
• Track and report key program metrics; inform stakeholders accordingly.
• Independently manage activities and resolve conflicts with minimal management influence.
• Navigate Disney TWDC to drive progress even when scope is unclear.
• Demonstrate leadership, collaboration, work ethic, and creative thinking.

Skills

Program management

Communication

Agile/Waterfall

Planning & problem-solving

Leadership

Education

BA/BS or equivalent experience

Job description

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is seeking a Technical Program Manager in the Business Operations – Global Program Management group to plan and execute complex Ad Platforms programs. You will partner with product managers and technical leads to coordinate schedules, deliverables, and dependencies across teams.

The role requires proactive, detail-oriented work and the ability to communicate schedules, risks, and progress to business and technical audiences.