PROJECT MANAGER - Program Management

August 2025

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Title: Senior Technical Program Manager

Location: Santa Monica

Date: August 2 8 , 202 6

Reason : Backfill

Job Family : CWM/IQN Full - Time/Part - Time : Full - Time

Job Level : CWM/IQN FLSA (Exempt/Non - Exempt): CWM/IQN

Department/ Group Overview:

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Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology

Technology is at the heart of Disney?s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product &

Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists,

and more ? all working to build and a dvance the technological backbone for Disney?s media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world - class products, enhance storytelling, and drive

velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators ; Creators and

Builders ; Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company?s media portfolio to

advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the

world.

Here are a few reasons why we think you?d love working here:

1. Building the future of Disney?s media: Our Technologists are designing and building the products and

platforms that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

2. Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney?s technology and products serve as a signature

doorway for fans' connections with the company?s brands and stories. Disney+. Hulu. ESPN. ABC

News?and many more. These products and brands ? and the unmatched stories, storytellers, an d

events they carry ? matter to millions of people globally.

3. Innovation: We develop and implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry

norms and solve complex and distinctive technical problems.

The Business Operations team helps guide and articulate technology strategy and research and is responsible

for driving the day - to - day operation s of the Product & Technology organization, including project and portfolio

management and tracking; organization - level capital, strategic planning, risk management, resource

management and allocation; process management; technical incident management; and our administrative and

Job Summary :

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? The Data Platforms Technical Program Management team is looking for a Senior Technical Program

Manager to drive business - critical 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 , Engineering , and Quality Engineering to translate business

value into actionable plans and execute on the delivery of strategic data initiatives. This role requires

technical understanding, attention to detail, a strong sense of accountability and ownership,

collaboration, and experience man aging cross workstream teams. If you are someone who thrives in a

collaborative environment, jumps at the opportunity to work on impactful and complex problems, and

constantly seeks out new challenges, then this is a great role for you.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role :

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- Focus on major areas of work, typically 20% or more of role % of Time

? Drive execution and delivery of multiple high - profile big data & analytics or Artificial

Intelligence ( AI ) programs from start to finish .

? Own end - to - end solution delivery o f the assigned program .

? Track and manage dependencies across multiple programs ; lead escalation processes to

make issues visible to stakeholders and leadership; drive resolution of dependency issues

through the process.

? Identifies project risks; drives to resolution and communicates prioritized mitigation plans

to stakeholders.

? Develop trusted partnerships with stakeholders by collaborating and delivering on

common goals. Ensure that programs and priorities support partner's strategic plans and

each program is managed to ensure on - time implementation and flawless execution.

? Collaborate with Product Managers on program objectives and provide clear

communications to teams and stakeholders on milestones, deliverables, and success

criteria.

? Collaborates with Product and Engineering to break user stories into actionable technical

tasks and facilitate producing tickets that inform Engineering and Quality Assurance of

desired outputs

? Collaborate with QA partners to identify test milestones and support test phases or

activities including Bug Triage and User Acceptance Testing.

? Provide timely updates on the status of programs to a cross - functional audience in multiple

formats.

? Leverage Agile and SDLC methodologies to lead teams , ensuring successful delivery of

software development programs in accordance with the organization?s delivery framework

and established best practices.

? Create and maintain program documentation (primarily in Confluence) and program status

(primarily in Jira and Airtable) that is the single source of truth about a program to keep

teams aligned and informed.

Required Education, Experience /Skills/Training :

Minimum and Preferred. I nclusive of Licenses/Certs (include functional experience as well as behavioral attributes

and/or leadership capabilities)

Basic Qualifications

? 5 years of p ractical experience in delivering programs in Data and Analytics, Instrumentation,

Intelligence . Familiar with relevant technological solutions, industry best practices . [ Need example

during screening of actual E2E programs candidate has delivere d.]

? E xperience with and/or current working knowledge of typical consumer data collection and

measurement technologies at scale for consumer - facing multi - platform streaming and non - streaming

digital products (OTT/CTV, mobile, web), including tools and vendors such as Adobe, Conviva,

Comscore, Nielsen; advertising and marketing technology components (data platforms, data collection

mechanisms, BI tools, analytics) ; principles (MDM, data governance), practices and procedures .

? E xperience with data platforms such as Databricks and Snowflake.

? E xperience with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP.

? Experience with debugging tools such as Charles Proxy.

? Experience with data visualization, aware of various tools, technologies .

? Good understanding of instrumentation / measurement / data collection / data engineering challenges .

? Good understanding of classical analytical methods; including relevant theories .

? 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 program goals .

? Must be capable of managing, tracking, and troubleshooting multiple programs in a deadline - driven

environment with cross - functional teams, vendors, and partners .

? Experience building broad, large - scale communications plans .

? Passion 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 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 , Airtable , and Claude .

Preferred Qualifications

? PMP / CSM / CSP Certification with a clear understanding of the Agile Project Management Framework

Required Education

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