The Walt Disney Company

Principal Program Manager

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Burbank • California • Florida • United States

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Salary

💰 $171,600 - $230,100 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Drive strategic initiatives and manage complex programs that have a broad impact on the business.
  • Work closely with senior-level staff and lead projects with notable risk and complexity.
  • Communicate complex ideas and persuade senior-level leaders to adopt different points of view.
  • Ensure alignment of ITAM and SOaR strategies with business priorities and track successful transformation outcomes.
  • Lead executive steering forums, operating committees, and cross-segment alignment sessions.
  • Resolve complex cross-functional conflicts with enterprise-wide impact.
  • Partner closely with segment and technology stakeholders to ensure program strategies align with business priorities.
  • Establish and operationalize a standardized framework for planning, documenting, and scoping projects.
  • Develop and maintain tooling and documentation standards to support structured planning and roadmap visibility.
  • Track and communicate changes in scope or planning assumptions that impact delivery timelines.
  • Ensure all involved parties understand and accept their roles and responsibilities and are held accountable to their deliverables.
  • Independently manage activities and resolve conflict within associated teams.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in program or product management and operations, strategic planning, or cross-functional program delivery in a technology or media environment.
  • Proven experience building and scaling operational frameworks and planning processes.
  • Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities across complex, matrixed teams.
  • Proficiency with tools such as Airtable, JIRA, Confluence, Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides), Excel.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and drive alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
  • Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to distill complexity and synthesize plans for executive audiences.
Benefits
  • A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
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