The Walt Disney Company

Lead Technical Program Manager

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Santa MonicaCaliforniaNew YorkUnited 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