Senior Technical Program Manager

Disney; Bristol (CT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Building the future of Disney's media

Reach, Scale & Impact

Innovation

Job summary

Disney's Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology (DEEP&T) seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead enterprise-level initiatives across the portfolio. You will partner with project owners to define teams, align scope, and deliver on time while shaping the program's vision and governance.

You will build consolidated project views, manage calendars, dependencies, risk analyses, and stakeholder communications, driving execution from start to finish and ensuring value for guests and cast.

Qualifications

• Experience managing enterprise-level projects with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to create and maintain master project schedules and governance processes.
• Strong communication with stakeholders and executive sponsors.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for driving execution and delivery of projects or programs from start to finish.
• Develops consolidated views of project status, calendars, dependencies, and risks.
• Establishes partnerships with project stakeholders and communicates progress regularly.
• Creates master project schedules and communication plans across multiple teams.

Skills

Enterprise project management

Stakeholder engagement

Budget & forecasts

Risk analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Senior Technical Program Manager

Job Description

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.

Here are a few reasons 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.

The Business Operations team helps guide and articulate technology strategy and research, and is responsible for driving the day-to-day operation of the Product & Technology organization, including: project and portfolio management and tracking; organization-level capital, space, and resource management and allocation; process management; technical incident management; and our administrative and workplace experience support team.

Job Overview

The Program Manager will be responsible for managing enterprise-level projects and initiatives within the Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology (DEEP&T) portfolio. This individual will work closely with various project owners to define the project team and assign responsibilities. The Program Manager will also be responsible for developing a consolidated view of the project, and for project deliverables including calendars, cross project dependencies, risk analysis, stakeholder coordination, and regular communication of status.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for driving execution and delivery of projects or support programs from start to finish
• Demonstrates a clear understanding of the project/program's vision, objectives, scale and scope of work, expected outcomes, business value and impact, timelines, roadmaps, resource level requirements
• Establishes strong partnerships and engagement with project stakeholders
• Create full-scale master project schedules and communication plans consisting of multiple teams or components
• Supports governance practices and protocols to control and monitor the program/projects
• Ensure proactive scheduling of key deliverables, milestones, and deliverable tasks
• Establish project financial forecasts including resource plans and other expense plans
• Actively participates in process and practice improvements in the project management environment and serves as a catalyst for project management excellence
• Establishes strong partnerships and engagement with project stakeholders
• Provides oversight to ensure critical day-to-day program/project deliverables progress forward to deliver specified requirements, objectives, and value
• Identifies gaps in the project team's accountability and ownership of deliverables
• Foster a team environment of self-organization, retrospect to learn and adapt with the goal of delivering the highest value to our guests and cast
• Responsible for finance/budget responsibilities for projects and budgets ( Analyzes, measures and recognizes the financial impact of various project actions, participate in analyzing and using financial data to identify key project issues, and maintains budget tracking and monitors budget expenditures
• Prepares program/project status reports to demonstrate project overall health, key performance indic