Senior Technical Project Manager within Production Platforms

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. 

The Technology Enablement Alliance (TEA) is an organization within Product & Technology (P&T)  that provides a platform dedicated to managing distributed systems to meet organizational and product scale requirements, offering a comprehensive suite of products to conceive, construct and efficiently manage distributed system workloads.

Data Stores is a department within TEA that focuses on developing tools for constructing and operating data stores, as well as providing operational support for data stores.

TEA engineering teams operate within a hybrid delivery framework using principles from Agile and Kanban, our TPMs work hand in hand with their engineering teams to define delivery methods and team processes customized for each team.

Responsibilities:

A Senior Technical Project Manager (TPM) within TEA reports to the PMO while partnering with the engineering manager; our TPMs play a critical role in structuring and executing impactful cross-org initiatives.  You will have the opportunity to refine our processes around delivery while building a sense of community and engagement within our talented group of engineers.  TPMs have a high degree of technical literacy and a desire to learn more, both within their teams’ product space and across the department and division.

You should bring a passion for coaching, collaboration, and team building to help evolve and optimize process and product delivery.

You will also:

• Enhance stakeholder relationships, understanding and dialogue.
• Enhance team throughput by removing roadblocks and leveraging organizational resources while helping to drive teams towards commitments
• Foster cross-team coordination and communication
• Assist with estimation and planning of team resourcing, in conjunction with engineering team manager
• Identify, maintain, and visualize metrics to guide the project lifecycle
• Lead agile ceremonies for one to two teams of engineers
• Develop fundamental technical understanding of the tools and services vended by your team

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of track record creating and growing trusting, lasting professional relationships with diverse stakeholders, maturing team’s current engagements and advocating for future work.
• Demonstrable experience managing technical projects in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, developing and executing project plans and delivery commitments.
• Deep rooted passion and proven track record building motivated and collaborative teams
• Detail oriented and excellent communication skills; ability to follow technical discussions and absorb technical documentation
• Experience working with distributed teams and/or distributed organizations
• Working understanding of AWS and cloud based development and a desire to know more
• Bachelor’s degree required

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to modern DevOps and SRE practices around CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Availability, etc
• Experience as a software engineer, including exposure to Java or Scala
• Basic understanding of RDBMS, automated testing and working with distributed systems

The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $129,300 to $173,300 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.