Job Summary:
On any given day at *** Entertainment & *** Technology (DEET), we're reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world's most beloved stories while also redefining *** 's *** business for the future. Whether that's evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to improve flexibility and efficiency, or delivering *** 's unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world!
This is a Lead Technical Program Manager position within the DE&E Technology: Business Operations - Global Program Management organization. The Lead Technical Program Manager will focus on the planning and execution of programs in the Apple & Android organization inside the Global Program Management business unit. DE&E Tech creates products, platforms, and innovations for *** by driving the strategic development and use of technology, building scalable systems and products to empower our businesses and engage consumers. With global scale, local presence, and deep technological excellence, DE&E Tech helps *** optimize technology, platforms, and resources, while bringing creative ideas to life and creating industry-shaping approaches!
This position requires validated experience in technical program management. Ideal candidates must be highly proactive, detail oriented, be able to work in fast-paced and ambiguous environments, identify creative paths to deliver, and autonomously work on multiple assignments that span across the Android Mobile and Android TV domains. They must be capable of digging into technical details and clearly presenting schedules, risks, status, and processes to a variety of business/technical and internal/external audiences. They will partner closely with technical program managers, technical leads, and Engineering/Program leadership to coordinate deliverables and articulate team progress. They will also work with Product, QA and across partner Engineering teams to facilitate and support Agile ceremonies and iterate upon internal team processes to enable the delivery of high value product increments to our users.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications :
The hiring range for this position in New York City is $156,300 to $209,600 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. 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.
About *** Direct to Consumer:
*** 's Direct to Consumer team oversees the *** and *** + streaming businesses within *** Entertainment helping to bring *** 's best-in-class storytelling to fans and families everywhere.
About *** :
*** , together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and *** enterprise that includes three core business segments: *** Entertainment, *** , and *** Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, *** proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. *** 's stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.
This position is with *** Streaming Technology LLC , which is part of a business we call *** Direct to Consumer .
*** Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. *** fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.
On any given day at *** Entertainment & *** Technology (DEET), we're reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world's most beloved stories while also redefining *** 's *** business for the future. Whether that's evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to improve flexibility and efficiency, or delivering *** 's unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world!
- Building the future of *** 's *** business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power *** 's *** , advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
- Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day - from *** + and *** , to *** and Entertainment, to *** and *** +, and much more.
- Innovation: We develop and complete groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.
This is a Lead Technical Program Manager position within the DE&E Technology: Business Operations - Global Program Management organization. The Lead Technical Program Manager will focus on the planning and execution of programs in the Apple & Android organization inside the Global Program Management business unit. DE&E Tech creates products, platforms, and innovations for *** by driving the strategic development and use of technology, building scalable systems and products to empower our businesses and engage consumers. With global scale, local presence, and deep technological excellence, DE&E Tech helps *** optimize technology, platforms, and resources, while bringing creative ideas to life and creating industry-shaping approaches!
This position requires validated experience in technical program management. Ideal candidates must be highly proactive, detail oriented, be able to work in fast-paced and ambiguous environments, identify creative paths to deliver, and autonomously work on multiple assignments that span across the Android Mobile and Android TV domains. They must be capable of digging into technical details and clearly presenting schedules, risks, status, and processes to a variety of business/technical and internal/external audiences. They will partner closely with technical program managers, technical leads, and Engineering/Program leadership to coordinate deliverables and articulate team progress. They will also work with Product, QA and across partner Engineering teams to facilitate and support Agile ceremonies and iterate upon internal team processes to enable the delivery of high value product increments to our users.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and implement to deliver projects from concept to completion by collaborating with engineering, product management, QA by developing detailed project plans from development to deployment.
- Facilitate technical meetings and problem solving break-outs; follow and comprehend highly technical discussions in order to summarize, raise risks, identify owners, and gather outcomes.
- Track team progress (on the pillar team level and holistically for Android) against deliverables and work with the team to identify solutions to get back on-track, generate proposals for descoping, or craft leadership communications when the team falls behind schedule.
- Work with development team(s) to create delivery timelines, and partner across various workstreams and business leaders to sequence the work based on priorities and dependencies. Track and report key program metrics, informing partners as appropriate.
- Identify scope of technical inputs and outputs as dependencies for engineering teams, resolve gaps and create program landmarks that ensure work is sequenced across teams.
- Collaborate with other TPMs to understand cross-team dependencies, prioritize work to avoid impediments, identify single points of failure for discussion and decision.
- Attend project meetings and communicate program progress against defined breakthroughs and delivery risks to various levels of executive leadership.
- Ensure visibility to status, issue resolution, and risk mitigation. Proactively drive risk mitigation and contingency planning, along with issue resolution.
- Ensure that all involved parties understand and accept their roles and responsibilities.
- Drive decisions by asking the right questions, displaying technical foresight and subject matter expertise.
- Ability to handle multiple team requests and balance that against contending priorities and committed work.
- Serve as the point of contact for Android partners, ensuring timely issue mitigation, open communication on scheduled releases, and continued rapport with external partners.
- Independently run activities and resolve co *** ict within associated teams, with minimal i *** uence from management.
- Sift through "noise" and facilitate discussions with a laser focus towards outcomes and results.
- Mentor and show tight-knit collaboration with 3-4 other TPMs working within the Android Mobile space, serving Engagement, Playback, Platform and Onboarding, Commerce and Identity pillars
- Be ready to lead teams to perform Agile ceremonies, such as daily stand-ups, sprint plannings, backlog refinements, retrospectives, and demos for 2-3 teams concurrently.
- Provide guidance to teams on Agile efficiency, support their self-organization and Agile methodology knowledge growth.
- Provide guidance to teams towards data-driven decisions, using tools and techniques (i.e., Burndown Charts, Epic Reports, Version Reports) to maintain metrics that provide visibility for the team and use those metrics to identify team needs.
Qualifications :
- 7+ years of experience handling large-scale, strategic, software development programs in a well-established global technology organization.
- Shown experience in working in complex, matrixed environment leading multiple collaborators.
- Demonstrated ability with Agile project management in a hands-on role, good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, co *** ict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and growing transparency.
- Technical knowledge of architecture and development practices, specifically pertaining to the Android platform.
- Experience in leading teams through improvement through process re-engineering
- Excellent people management skills, including the ability to i *** uence various audience and levels.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with an ability to adjust presentations to accommodate different audiences at various levels.
- Must understand the impact of injecting requests to the team's backlog.
- Advanced knowledge of tools including Atlassian Suite (JIRA/Co *** uence), MS Office (Sharepoint, Teams) Keynote, Powerpoint and Google suite
- Be flexible to work outside of regular office hours to accommodate important meetings in different time zones.
- Analytical attitude to troubleshoot complex technical issues and facilitate consensus driven decisions in response to technical challenges with minimal direction.
- Ability to understand program/project requirements and how they relate to content supply chain systems.
- Established experience with supply chain systems that support content operation functions (e.g., title management, content planning, order management, metadata management, avails management, rights management, and/or participations & residuals).
The hiring range for this position in New York City is $156,300 to $209,600 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. 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.
About *** Direct to Consumer:
*** 's Direct to Consumer team oversees the *** and *** + streaming businesses within *** Entertainment helping to bring *** 's best-in-class storytelling to fans and families everywhere.
About *** :
*** , together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and *** enterprise that includes three core business segments: *** Entertainment, *** , and *** Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, *** proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. *** 's stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.
This position is with *** Streaming Technology LLC , which is part of a business we call *** Direct to Consumer .
*** Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. *** fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.
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