Manager, Technical Program Management

$152,000 - $185,000/Yr

Disney - New York, NY

Full-time - Manager

New York, NY

Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries

About the position

The Manager, Technical Program Management (TPM) position at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology (DEET) involves leading a team of Technical Project Managers to enhance and deliver services within the internal developer platform. This role is pivotal in managing technical projects related to Compliance & Metadata Management, Cost Management, and Data Store Services, ensuring that projects are completed on time, within budget, and meet high-quality standards. The position requires collaboration with various teams to coordinate dependencies and activities, while also mentoring and developing the careers of team members.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of distributed Technical Project Managers (TPMs); effectively coaching, mentoring and growing their careers.
• Accountable for the performance and results of a team in conducting technical projects or programs on time, within budget, and of the highest level of quality.
• Collaborate with other program management colleagues to coordinate dependencies and activities across multiple technology teams.
• Manage program portfolio level budget and drive capacity planning.
• Lead not only at the strategic level, but also day-to-day by diving deeply into business and technical domains.
• Understand architecture between systems across multiple domains and speak to the overall workflow between these systems.
• Exemplify leadership characteristics through collaboration, work ethic, and creative thinking.
• Partner with DPE engineering managers and leads to build a solid understanding of individual team needs and support TPMs in adapting their approach to support each team.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8+ years Technical Program Management experience with very strong facilitation, communication, planning and problem solving skills within technology organizations.
• 2+ years total of formal management experience.
• Detail oriented and excellent communication skills; ability to direct technical discussions and facilitate communication across disparate teams.
• Ability to manage through ambiguity, competing priorities, and shifting strategies.
• Experience working with distributed teams and/or distributed organizations.
• Aptitude to develop fundamental technical understanding of the tools and services vended by your teams.

Nice-to-haves

• Leads and promotes a positive and sustainable work environment.
• A detailed knowledge of Agile development practices and a demonstrated ability to deliver high-impact features at scale.
• Exposure to modern DevOps and SRE practices around CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Availability, etc.
• Experience playing a leadership role in highly integrated COTS implementation experience.
• Cloud based tooling expertise including AirTable, Atlassian Suite, Google Suite, and Slack or similar.

Benefits

• Medical, financial, and/or other benefits depending on the level and position offered.
• Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package.