The Walt Disney Company · 7 hours ago
Lead Technical Program Manager
Santa Monica, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$156K/yr - $209K/yrThe Walt Disney Company is a global leader in media and entertainment technology. The Lead Technical Program Manager will play a crucial role in delivering and enhancing key business tools and services, working closely with Cloud Engineering and Cloud Account Management teams in a highly technical environment.
Amusement Park and ArcadeAnimationConsumer GoodsDigital MediaE-CommerceMedia and EntertainmentMulti-level MarketingPerforming ArtsResorts
Responsibilities
Drive, organize, and prioritize high-profile, cross-functional initiatives with minimal oversight, ensuring clarity, progress, and quality throughout delivery
Own processes around project management—structuring and executing initiatives, tracking resource allocation, and highlighting project status transparently
Improve team throughput by identifying bottlenecks, implementing process improvements, and championing automation to avoid queues and reduce manual effort
Coordinate cross-functional communication and foster effective stakeholder relationships, ensuring alignment across engineers, managers, and executive sponsors
Maintain thorough documentation and detail-oriented tracking of all project deliverables and outcomes
Develop a fundamental technical understanding of the tools and infrastructure your teams manage, including Terraform, Infrastructure as Code (IoC), IAM, Private Links, and VPCs
Proactively surface input and ensure accountability across teams that include introverted or quieter members, holding individuals and teams to high standards with empathy and servant leadership
Facilitate agile ceremonies for multiple engineering teams and drive collaboration in a distributed team environment
Effectively negotiate project expectations and realistic deadlines, communicating clearly to diverse stakeholders
Assist in team resource planning in partnership with engineering managers
Identify, capture, and report on key delivery metrics to ensure transparency throughout the project lifecycle
Qualification
Required
Detail oriented and excellent communication skills; ability to follow technical discussions and absorb technical documentation; ability to develop fundamental technical understanding of the project deliverables
Demonstrated tenacity and comfortable with ambiguity; able to drive consensus between cross-functional stakeholder groups
Experience playing a leadership role in highly integrated COTS implementation experience
Experience managing senior-level client relationships and effectively and efficiently communicating program vision and status in monthly business reviews
Experience working with distributed teams and/or distributed organizations
Experience supported agile software development teams
Deep understanding of SDLC
Working knowledge cloud infrastructure – Terraform, IOC, IAM, Private links, VPCs
Working knowledge of Jira
Preferred
Degree in STEM and / or experience as a software engineer
Exposure to modern DevOps and SRE practices around CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Availability, etc
Working knowledge cloud infrastructure – Terraform, IOC, IAM, Private links, VPCs
Tools expertise including AirTable, Google Suite, and MS Teams
Benefits
A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports coverage and television shows.
Founded in 1923
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (83)
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2022 (130)
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$11BKey Investors
Citibank
2020-04-13Post Ipo Debt· $5B
2020-03-20Post Ipo Debt· $6B
1978-01-06IPO
Leadership Team
Christine M. McCarthy
Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Jamie Power
SVP, Addressable Sales
Recent News
2026-01-20
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