The Walt Disney Company · 8 hours ago
Senior Technical Program Mgr
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$135K/yr - $182K/yr
5+ years expThe Walt Disney Company is a global organization that combines technology with creativity to build world-class products for its media business. The Senior Technical Program Manager will focus on planning and executing programs related to the internal developer platform, partnering with engineering managers to drive impactful initiatives across the organization.
Amusement Park and ArcadeAnimationConsumer GoodsDigital MediaE-CommerceMedia and EntertainmentMulti-level MarketingPerforming ArtsResorts
Responsibilities
Effectively define and represent projects goals and plan; develop fundamental technical understanding of the project deliverables
Enhance team throughput by removing roadblocks and leveraging organizational connections while helping to drive teams towards commitments
Track progress against deliverables and work closely with the team to ensure on-time delivery
Share concise and effective status information across multiple reporting formats to keep stakeholders informed and proactively communicate risks, forecasts, and dependencies
Facilitate technical and stakeholder meetings; follow the discussions in order to summarize and capture outcomes
Foster cross-team coordination and communication
Identify, maintain, and visualize metrics to guide the project lifecycle
Assist with estimation and planning of team resourcing, in conjunction with engineering team manager
Navigate competing and dynamic priorities, balance competing requests with agility
Qualification
Required
5+ years of 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
Track record of creating and growing trusting, lasting professional relationships with diverse stakeholders, maturing team's current engagements and advocating for future work
Experience in leading teams through improvement via process re-engineering
Demonstrated tenacity and comfortable with ambiguity
Tools expertise including Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence), Google Suite, and Slack/MS Teams or similar
Experience working with distributed teams and/or distributed organizations
Working understanding of cloud based development and a desire to know more
Experience as a scrum master and knowledge of agile methodologies
Bachelor's degree required
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
Prior experience as a software engineer
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.
10001+ employees
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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
Robert Iger
CEO
Christine M. McCarthy
Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2026-01-20
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