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Technical Program Mgr II
Company | The Walt Disney Company |
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Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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Salary | $114500 – $153500 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Mid Level |
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Requirements
- Minimum 3 years practical experience in a technical role, preferably within streaming media
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field and/or equivalent work experience
- Experience working with external Partners across LATAM, EMEA and APAC
- Proven track record managing complex technical programs in distributed application models with partner devices, such as set top boxes, customer purchasing journeys and content metadata catalog distribution
- Knowledge of Streaming, Video Playback technology, and API integration
- Understanding of systems architectures, design and implementation
- Ability to actively identify dependencies/risks and work with engineering counterparts to mitigate these
- Ability to interact with a diverse set of technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong attention to detail, excellent communication skills, written and verbal communication
- Good understanding of cloud based backend and front-end environment
- Experience working with QA teams facilitating, removing blockers and reviewing test results readout
Responsibilities
- Own execution for upcoming Partner launches, driving request intake, issue resolution, and delivery
- Build strategic and trusted partnerships with our team leads from the Technical Account Management Team, Partner Integration Engineering Teams, and Device & Media Product teams to ensure alignment with business needs
- Partner with engineering, product and Technical Account Management to translate Partner requests to comprehensive execution plans
- Work with multiple internal teams to track progress on your programs in a manner easily consumable by all stakeholders
- Provide escalation management, anticipate and resolve bottlenecks, and balance business needs with technical constraints in order to provide timely updates on project health to a cross-functional executive audience of technical, business, and operations stakeholders
- Author detailed reports for program status, schedules, task assignments, risks
- Track and drive the resolution of Partner open issues for any given delivery through clear communication with stakeholders
- Identify inefficiencies in the processes, and drive better, more efficient processes where needed for programs to deliver optimally and on time
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using and building Airtable interfaces or similar tool
- Experience shipping entertainment and media applications on web, mobile platforms, video game consoles, set top boxes, or smart TVs
- Account management, client service, and/or management consulting experience is a plus
- Experience in application development kits (ADK) integration is a plus
- Fluent in Spanish