
Lead Technical Program Manager
The Walt Disney Company
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Santa Monica • California • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $155,700 - $208,700 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- 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 supporting agile software development teams
- Deep understanding of SDLC
- Working knowledge cloud infrastructure – Terraform, IOC, IAM, Private links, VPCs
- Working knowledge of Jira
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, dependent on the level and position offered.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
project managementprocess improvementsautomationCOTS implementationagile software developmentSDLCTerraformIOCIAMVPCs
Soft Skills
detail orientedexcellent communicationtenacitycomfortable with ambiguitydrive consensusstakeholder relationshipscross-functional communicationteam throughput improvementdocumentationtracking