Lead Technical Program Mgr

Job Summary

The Data Platforms Technical Program Management team is seeking a Lead Program Manager to drive business-critical data initiatives across multiple teams within Data Platforms and across the Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology portfolio of digital consumer-facing products. This role will partner with Product Management and Engineering to translate business value into actionable plans and execute on the delivery of strategic data initiatives.

Responsibilities And Duties Of The Role

• Accountable for driving execution and delivery of extraordinarily high-profile technical, data platform projects from start to finish in a fast-paced and complex environment.
• Develop strong partnerships with engineering, product management and business partners to drive focus on strategic and tactical program objectives.
• Understands all project domain components, including architecture, tools and deployment practices that development team is employing; can explain the purpose of component decisions at a high level.
• Forecasts project risks proactively; analyzes and drives resolution of key project blockers.
• Develops and executes change management and communication plans and engages with stakeholders to report progress and raise issues.
• Documents and communicates key decisions, accomplishments, problems, changes to plan, and go forward plans for assigned deliverable(s) to internal and external executive stakeholders.
• Serves as subject matter expert and "go to" person for guidance in program management discipline.
• Defines, optimizes, and manages Agile project management processes at the team-of-teams level.
• Manages capacity across team-of-teams to balance delivery priorities (business, technical, maintenance, etc.,).
• Create a collaborative work environment that cultivates shared understanding, transparency, mastery, autonomy, innovation and continuous learning.

Required Education, Experience/Skills/Training

• 7+ years of practical experience in delivering large-scale data platform projects.
• Familiar with relevant technological solutions and industry best practices.
• Experience orchestrating execution across multiple business units or organizations with competing priorities, translating a broad, evolving set of cross-organizational dependencies into a coordinated delivery plan.
• Comfortable building program structure and alignment in ambiguous, fast-evolving environments, with the ability to sustain execution momentum on a foundational platform initiative over a multi-year horizon.
• Experience with and/or current working knowledge of typical consumer data platforms and service technologies at scale for consumer-facing multi-platform streaming and nonstreaming digital products (OTT/CTV, mobile, web).
• Demonstrated ability to drive initiatives forward to completion through collaboration and consensus across functional areas.
• Solid orchestration and problem-solving skills with ability to focus both strategically and tactically to achieve project goals.
• Must be capable of managing, tracking, and troubleshooting multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment with cross-functional teams, vendors, and partners.
• Experience building broad, large-scale communications plans.
• Love for Data and taking chaos and turning it into something actionable.
• High sense of ownership and a focus on building fast without sacrificing quality.
• Experience in Agile software development with expertise in Scrum methodology and practices.
• Experience with technical Release Management.
• Current knowledge of modern program management, analysis, and reporting tools such as Jira (including Structure Boards and/or Jira Sheets/JXL), Confluence and Airtable.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP / CSM / CSP Certification with thorough understanding of Scrum Agile Methodologies.